India-England Combined XI

Redemption complete!

Cheteshwar Pujara

A tough choice between him and Moeen Ali, but Pujara got the nod since he played at Number 3 right throughout the series while Ali only batted there for four innings.

After the horrors of 2014, Pujara put in a better performance in 2018, scoring his first ever hundred on English soil at Southampton, an unbeaten 132 that helped India take the lead in the first innings.

He will hopefully carry this confidence into the future overseas tours and put in a better showing there.

Virat Kohli

One of the easier choices to make in this XI. If the world in 2014 was speaking about Kohli and his frailties outside the off-stump, they will now speak of how he overcame them and amassed 593 runs in the series to emerge as the standout performer with the bat from both sides.

India will want more of such exploits when they tour Australia in November later this year.

Jonny Bairstow

Another hard choice, considering how similar his numbers are to that of Ajinkya Rahane in this series. But Bairstow gets the nod because he was part of a victorious England side and they will want him to get back to the run-scoring ways when they tour Sri Lanka and the West Indies in the winter.