Dhruv Jurel

The arrival

Dhruv Jurel's first IPL season was 2023, with Rajasthan Royals, a signing made outside the auction.

That first season brought 13 matches and 152 runs. The best was still to come.

The peak

The high point with the bat was 2026, for Rajasthan Royals: 515 runs at an average of 36.8, striking at 154.7 in a season when the league as a whole struck at 156.5, with 6 fifties, and a highest score of 81 not out.

Measured against the league around it, though, the most destructive season was 2023: 152 runs at a strike rate of 172.7, 31 runs per hundred balls quicker than the IPL as a whole that year.

One franchise

Dhruv Jurel has spent the whole IPL career with Rajasthan Royals, from 2023 to 2026. Rajasthan Royals bought Dhruv Jurel at the auction in 2022 for ₹20 lakh.

How the runs came

Across the career, Dhruv Jurel has struck at 154.2. The league around those same seasons, weighted by how much batting each one involved, struck at 152.8, so the scoring rate has tracked the league's almost exactly. 64% of the runs came in fours and sixes: 98 fours and 62 sixes.

The ball-by-ball record adds the detail. 30.3% of the balls Dhruv Jurel faced were dot balls, a lower share than 94% of the 140 batters who have faced 500 balls or more in the IPL. A six came every 12.5 balls, and a four every 7.9.

The fielding record: 37 catches, 5 run-outs and 1 stumping.

At the auction

Dhruv Jurel has gone under the hammer once. The price was ₹20 lakh, paid by Rajasthan Royals in 2022. Being bought did not always mean playing: no match followed for Rajasthan Royals in 2022.

Seasons without an auction entry were played under a retention, a trade or a signing made outside the auction.

Where it stands

Dhruv Jurel has made 57 IPL appearances, the latest for Rajasthan Royals in 2026.