India vs England: Behind Dhruv Jurel’s military-style salute, his military-style preparation, to excel in front and behind the stumps
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After completing his half-century, Dhruv Jurel produced a military-like salute. The gesture, he said, was to his father, a Kargil War veteran. “Yesterday, I spoke and he indirectly said ‘Son, at least show me a salute’. That is what I have been doing all my growing-up years. It was for him,” he said after the day’s play.
Jurel had not yet talked to his father Nem Singh, a retired Havildar, who had to pawn his wife’s jewellery to buy a bat. “I had to borrow 800 rupees then because we didn’t have money. He later wanted a kit bag but it was very expensive, some 6,000 rupees. I said ‘mat khelo, itna paisa nahi hai (leave the game, I don’t have so much money).’ But he locked himself in the bathroom and his mother decided to pawn her only gold chain, which was how we managed to buy his ...