(Pacers)

Pat Cummins (Australia)

The Australian pacer Pat Cummins was the best pace bowler for Australia in this series. He was in a good rhythm in this series as he picked up a total of 14 wickets with the average of 27.78. In this series, the right-arm pacer had the best bowling figure in an innings and that was 11-3-27-6 at Melbourne.

Cummins also played a good role as the lower-order batsman and put behind some of the top-order Australian batsmen. With the average of 23.28, the right-handed batsman scored 163 runs with the only half-century knock of 63 at Melbourne.

Mohammed Shami (India)

Indian pacer Mohammed Shami played some crucial roles in this series with the ball in hand. The right-arm pacer finished the series as the third most wicket-taker after picking up 16 wickets with an average of 26.18. He claimed one five-wicket haul in this series and that was 6/56 at Perth.

Jasprit Bumrah (India)

The Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah put a huge impact in this series. Many experts have been impressed by his consistent bowling performances as they claimed that Bumrah was not far away to become the best pacer in the present world cricket.

Bumrah finished as the joint leading wicket-taker in this series after taking 21 wickets with the average of 17.00. His best bowling figure in an innings was 15.5-4-33-6 at Melbourne. He won the Player of the Match award in that Melbourne Test after taking nine wickets in that match.