Rohit Sharma: 0.5/10

3 Tests | 31 runs at 6.20, HS: 10

A forgettable series that continued a miserable run for both the captain and the team. It ended in him opting out of the final Test match.

Yashasvi Jaiswal: 7/10

5 Tests | 391 runs at 43.44, 1 hundred, 2 fifties, HS: 1610

Jaiswal began the series with a peculiar run (0, 161, 0), and his two 80s at the MCG ended in two of the most most talked-about dismissals of the series. While he was not exceptional on the tour, he did better with the bat than his senior colleagues, and was India's top scorer.

KL Rahul: 5/10

5 Tests | 276 runs at 30.66, 2 fifties, HS: 84 | Ct: 8

Two sublime fifties. Three promising first-innings cameos in low totals. Nothing across the rest of the series. That sums up Rahul’s series, but it could also have summed up his Test career.

Virat Kohli: 1.5/10

5 Tests | 190 runs at 23.75, 1 hundred, HS: 100*

Kohli’s average looks borderline acceptable if you use the arithmetic mean (23.75), boosted by an outlier of a hundred: it drops to 7 if one uses the median. What made it even worse is the similarity of the dismissals, off the outside edge.

Shubman Gill: 2/10

3 Tests | 93 runs at 18.60, HS: 31

Looking back at the series, Gill will realise that he had reached double figures four times in five innings but never made it to 35. It was not that he struggled: he simply threw his starts away.

Rishabh Pant: 6/10

5 Tests | 255 runs at 28.33, 1 fifty, HS: 61 | Ct: 25

Pant converted seven of his nine innings into twenties, but did not reach forty until the last Test. In a way it was similar to his two previous Australia tours (12 innings, 12 twenties but only three forties). Unlike the other two tours, however, the forties did not amount to anything substantial. Gets half a point for extending his own national record of most catches in a Test series to 25.

Nitish Kumar Reddy: 6/10

5 Tests | 298 runs at 37.25, 1 hundred, HS: 114 | 5 wickets at 38.00, BBI: 2-32

It is not Reddy’s fault that the team management kept picking him as their fourth seamer when he could have replaced one of the batters. While he never got going in that role, he more than surpassed all expectations with the bat, especially with that hundred at Melbourne. India should be able to find the right role for him.

Ravindra Jadeja: 4/10

3 Tests | 135 runs at 27.00, 1 fifty, HS: 77 | 4 wickets at 54.50, BBI: 3-78

A gritty fifty at Brisbane to help avoid the follow-on. Four wickets at Melbourne. Two cameos at Sydney. Jadeja did contribute in his own way, but not to the extent India would have wanted him to.

Washington Sundar: 3/10

3 Tests | 114 runs at 22.80, 1 fifty, HS: 50 | 3 wickets at 38.66, BBI: 2-48

Sundar was needed for only 37 overs across three Tests and, other than Perth, batted outside the top seven – another indication of India’s curious selection strategy. He batted well to help India avoid the follow-on at Melbourne, but that was about it.

R Ashwin: 2/10

1 Test | 29 runs at 14.50, HS: 22 | 1 wicket at 53.00, BBI: 1-53

Had Mohammed Siraj caught Travis Head off Ashwin, India’s series and Ashwin’s career might have unfolded differently. It was not to be. An anticlimactic end to a phenomenal career.

Akash Deep: 5/10

2 Tests | 38 runs at 12.66, HS: 31 | 5 wickets at 54.00, BBI: 2-28

Akash bowled well – brilliantly, in fact – without getting the wickets, and missed the last Test on a surface where he could have made a difference. His time will come.

Harshit Rana: 3/10

2 Tests | 4 wickets at 50.75, BBI: 3-48

An excellent show in the first innings of his career as Jasprit Bumrah ran riot, but little to write home since then.

Dhruv Jurel: 0.5/10

1 Test | 12 runs at 6.00, HS: 11

Backed ahead of Sarfaraz Khan at Perth, Jurel did little of note.

Devdutt Padikkal: 1/10

1 Test | 25 runs at 12.50, HS: 25

Scored about twice as many as Jurel. Gets twice as many points.

Prasidh Krishna: 6/10

1 Test | 6 wickets at 17.83, BBI: 3-42

When Prasidh finally got a chance, he altered his length in the first innings to take out three of Australia’s top four scorers. Taking the new ball in the second innings in Bumrah’s absence, he struck thrice more, albeit to loose shots.

Mohammed Siraj: 7/10

5 Tests | 20 wickets at 31.15, BBI: 4-98

Siraj lost pace by the time India reached Sydney, but he still had it in him to bowl the long spells. Among Indian fast bowlers, only Kapil Dev and Bumrah have more wickets in a series in Australia. Only Bumrah (twice) has taken 10 wickets at a better strike rate than his 47.1. And since the 1991-92 tour, no Indian fast bowler has bowled more balls than his 943 (Bumrah had bowled the same in 2018-19). The average could have been better.

Jasprit Bumrah: 10/10

5 Tests | 32 wickets at 13.06, BBI: 6-76, 5WIs: 3

Maybe we are generous here. Maybe we should have deducted half a point for him not keeping wicket at the other end between his overs. Maybe.

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