Four India cricketers have found place in Cricket.com.au’s Test team of the year 2021 ans they are white-ball captain and opener Rohit Sharma, off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, spinner-all-rounder Axar Patel and wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant.
The team is led by Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne.
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Cricket.com.au picked Sharma as the opening batter, thanks to his dominating form in 2021. He has not only dominated white-ball cricket but also scored big runs outside Asia. In the year that just passed by, Sharma finished only behind England captain Joe Root in the list of highest scorers. Pant also had a good year in which he scored a number of big knocks but failed to transform them into big hundreds. His superior form against Australia Down Under and England at home earned him comparisons with former Australia wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist who was a dashing batter.
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Ashwin andPatel have bagged 54 and 36 wickets, with an average of 16.64 and 11.86, respectively, this year.
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While Root was the only representative from England, Kyle Jamieson was the only one from New Zealand and Marnus Labuschagne from Australia in the playing XI, three players from Pakistan made the cut and they are Fawad Alam, Hasan Ali and Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Cricket Australia Test XI 2021: Rohit Sharma, Dimuth Karunaratne (captain), Marnus Labuschagne, Joe Root, Fawad Alam, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ravi Ashwin, Kyle Jamieson, Axar Patel, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi
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