Cricket.com.au on Friday, December 31, announced their Test team of the year, and they went on to select as many as four Indian players in the list. Indian opener Rohit Sharma, wicket-keeper batsman, Rishab Pant, and spinners, Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel were included in Cricket.com.au’s Test team of the year.
Rohit Sharma ended the 2021 calendar year with a tally of 906 runs in 11 matches at an average of 47.8, which included a couple of centuries and four fifties. The Indian batter is elected to Cricket.com.au’s Test team as an opener, as he proved his ability to score big outside Asia. Rohit’s exuberant knock of 127 at Oval against England impressed the cricket fraternity.
Rishabh Pant had amassed 748 runs from 12 matches at an average of 39.36 and rose to fame in the red-ball format during the India tour of Australia 2020-2021. Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel have been very impressed with the ball in their recent outings for the Indian team in Test cricket.
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Ashwin has taken as many as 54 wickets from 9 matches at an average of 16.64, and also became India’s third-highest wicket-taker in the longest format after he surpassed Harbhajan Singh during the Kanpur Test against New Zealand. Axar has managed to take as many as 36 wickets from five matches at an average of 11.86.
From run machines to match-winners with the ball, there was no shortage of players to pick from in this combined side from 2021. Here's where we landed… https://t.co/HoAoPBMFnT
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau) December 31, 2021
Apart from Indian players, Pakistan cricketers, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Hasan Ali, Fawad Alam have also been selected in quad narrowed down by Cricket.com.au. Australia’s Marnus Marnus Labuschagne was the lone player from the national team who was included in the list. Kyle Jamieson and Joe Root also earned their the Test team of the year selected by Cricket.com.au.
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Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne, who had a great time with the bat in Test cricket was elected as an opener in the list along with Rohit Sharma.
Cricket Australia Test XI of 2021: Rohit Sharma, Dimuth Karunaratne (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Joe Root, Fawad Alam, Rishabh Pant (wk), Ravi Ashwin, Kyle Jamieson, Axar Patel, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi
