#3 Cheteshwar Pujara
The Indian rock finishes third on this list of top Test batsmen of the year. Pujara, in fact, scored more runs than skipper Kohli, but the impact his skipper had meant the number three batsman had to do with the number three spot.
He managed 1140 runs in 11 Tests this year at an average of 67.05 with the help of four hundreds, five half-centuries and a double hundred.
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Edited by Arvind Sriram