Sidharth Monga

Two single-figure scores on debut, a sitter dropped to start the Sydney Test, a few misfields and everybody feared if we would even get to watch KL Rahul's normal game. But he got through his nerves and secured a maiden Test hundred

He was India's best player in England, but how would he cope with Australian conditions when the Kookaburra ball fails to swing? Sydney showed he wasn't able to

India's bowling coach B Arun has conceded his team's bowlers need to be more disciplined, and that a lot of work needs to be done on them, after India conceded 348 runs on the opening day of the SCG Test against Australia

By all accounts it has been a horrendous start to Test cricket for KL Rahul, both with the bat and in the field

Afghanistan have achieved more in 15 years than most teams have in 50. Now, in their first World Cup, they want to be more than just a feel-good story

They are fed with plenty of information, say Michael Holding and Wasim Akram, but very few understand their own bowling

Virat Kohli began the task of captaining India full time by throwing his weight behind his bowlers, saying the batsmen need to share some of the blame for India's failures

Assertive and feisty, Virat Kohli, the batsman, has fed off Australia's aggression to make a mark on the tour. Can his leadership now follow suit?

India's return to the nets under new captain Virat Kohli has come with uncertainty around a few places in the side

A young Test side showed some steel and engineered a famous win but missed several opportunities to establish dominance

When the clock is ticking but the drop-in pitch is refusing to misbehave, when everything is hitting the middle of the bat, you need a man to rise above the conditions, you need some magic. On day five in Melbourne, Mitchell Johnson created magic

MS Dhoni's tactical moves could make you pull your hair out but off the field, he brought trust to the Indian dressing room. He could let Test matches drift, but his control of his team was absolute

Attack has been a good slave for India's batsmen this series, but they shouldn't let it become a bad master

All his cricketing life MS Dhoni has been obsessed with keeping the emotion out of it. He was never going to make leaving an emotional act. No farewell Test, speech or even press conference. Boom. Gone

For long a contributor to India's lack of control with the ball, Ishant Sharma has become far more accurate. The rest of the fast-bowling attack, however, still remains wayward

Virat Kohli said he was left with no good reason to respect Mitchell Johnson and some of the other Australia players after verbals flew "throughout the day" at the MCG

R Ashwin has said that India will continue to target Brad Haddin with shorter deliveries with the aim of exploiting his weakness

Mohammed Shami bowls a few really good balls, but they are interspersed with far too many loose ones, an inconsistency that is unacceptable in Test cricket

Tests don't come grander than the Boxing Day and the first day's play at the MCG lived up to expectations, with its subplots and slow twists

The stands will be teeming with life at the MCG and they will need to be entertained, no matter how much pressure the player might feel out in the middle