Playing in just his second Test match, Jurel made a career-best terrific 90 in the first innings, which kept India in the match and narrowed the deficit to 46. On the fourth day, he combined with Shubman Gill to stitch an unbroken 72-run match-winning stand for the sixth wicket to help India get over the line to win the match and series.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cWhat impressed me was how he picked the length. He was so fast at making the right decision. You see his trigger movement -\u2013 this was at the start of the partnership on a wide ball -\u2013 but he\u2019s so good at getting back and forward and making the right decision at the right time for that ball,\u201d said Cook.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cShubman Gill played slightly differently, he\u2019s not quite as quick on his feet but he\u2019s still a class player Jurel, he does a little forward press and if he does need to go forward, he\u2019s sharp, he\u2019s quick and that little bit more explosion means when he plays a shot, he might be able to get a single,\u201d said Cook on TNT Sports.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Cook, the former opening batter, also felt Jurel was even better than Ravindra Jadeja in the second innings and thinks the wicketkeeper-batter should come ahead of the all-rounder in the batting order. \u201cJadeja was just dead-batting everything, there\u2019s no chance of getting any runs whatsoever. So even when Jurel is defending, because he\u2019s so sharp when he\u2019s tucking the ball on the leg-side if it\u2019s perfect he may get a run.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cAnd that\u2019s just the balancing act that slightly better players have -\u2013 and I\u2019m not calling Jadeja a bad player at all, he (Jurel) might just have slightly better ball maneuvering than Jadeja. \u201cJadeja in particular showed probably why he should be batting a little bit lower.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cYes, he can score runs but the ability, under pressure, to find that balance between attack and defence under pressure -\u2013 pressure does funny things to you. Jadeja is a world-class all-rounder, but batting at five there he struggled in terms of taking no risks because he didn\u2019t want to get out or trying to put a bit of pressure back on as a batter. But Jurel found that balance perfectly with his feet movement and sharpness of mind.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Despite losing by five wickets, England struck via their spinners to trigger India\u2019s slide from 84\/0 to 120\/5 on Day Four. But Steven Finn, the former England fast-bowler, thinks Gill and Jurel were just too good to deny visitors a win.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"The game was not lost today. It was lost yesterday. India have to be given a lot of credit for their resilience to fight their way back into the game from the position they found themselves in on day two.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"The collapse of five wickets for 36 runs through the middle-order would've set panic in the dressing room. There was a period today where I truly believed England would win that. You just felt as though they were circling and that they were really potent.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"You had two young, inexperienced spinners hold their nerve in the fourth innings when your team were behind the game going into what proved to be the final day. England did a really good job of making this game last as long as it did. It just took some real class from Gill and Jurel to see them off.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
India have taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-game series and former England captain Michael Vaughan thinks the series win is an incredible thing to happen for the Rohit Sharma-led side.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Due to a combination of injuries, rest and personal reasons, India missed Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, K.L. Rahul, Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah in the series. But the hosts still came out on the winning side to get their 17th consecutive Test series win.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"They've got five world-class players missing. They also lost a very important toss (in Ranchi), and they faced a first-innings deficit. It's an incredible win for now, but also for the future of this team.\"<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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