India-Australia combined Best XI from the Test series

#3 Middle-order - Ajinkya Rahane, Travis Head & Rishabh Pant (wicketkeeper)

Pant seems to have secured his place in the Indian Test team

Ajinkya Rahane's stats are anything but not outrageous. However, 'reliable' is the word to use to define his selection. Rahane scored 217 runs in the series which included two fifties. His solid average of 31 gave India some solidity in the middle-order.

Talking about Australia's middle-order, Travis Head had a similar sort of impact. He scored 20 runs more than Rahane but had the same number of half-centuries. However, his contributions were not enough to resuscitate the Australian batting lineup.

There was a time when Kohli, in his search for a Test wicketkeeper, never looked beyond Wriddhiman Saha. But an injury to Saha opened a door for Rishabh Pant and there has been no looking back ever since. With 350 runs, Pant is the second highest run-scorer for the series with an average of nearly 60. He struck one century in this series.