Dhruv Jurel’s bicep tattoo, revealed as he reached his century, carries a line older than his own career: “Jai jawan jai kisan,” the 1965 war cry coined by Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. For Jurel it points at his own family, a farmer grandfather and a soldier father, roots he doesn’t want to lose sight of.
He described batting alongside Rishabh Pant as the easier half of the job, reasoning that bowlers chasing Pant’s shots tend to slip up against him instead. Pant, for his part, pulled the same shot that had injured him a day earlier and put it away for six, still without an arm guard.
Jurel reached his second Test hundred in the final game of the SL vs IND series, with the visitors crossing the 500-run mark before captain Shubman Gill declared the innings.
Prabath Jayasuriya reprimanded for hitting boundary wedges after dismissal
Prabath Jayasuriya has picked up an official reprimand from the ICC, the third sanction to come out of the Colombo Test. He struck the boundary wedges with his bat while walking off after being dismissed on the last ball of Day 2, a breach of the equipment-abuse clause in the Code of Conduct. It cost him a demerit point, his first in the last two years, after he accepted the sanction without needing a hearing.