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India lost the Border-Gavaskar Trophy by going down 0-2 in Australia. Here's a rating of the performances of players who made those results

Virat Kohli, who has promised aggressiveness taking over as captain from the much-maligned MS Dhoni, has begun to realise the problems Dhoni faced

Faced with the negative momentum that threatened to drag India down, Ajinkya Rahane and Bhuvneshwar Kumar showed plenty of self-possession to pull their team to safety

Australia won this series in spite of some of the flattest pitches seen down under for years. It is three decades since Melbourne and Sydney both ended in stalemate

Stats highlights from the fifth day of the fourth Test between India and Australia, in Sydney

When R Ashwin was actually onto something, however briefly, the other end mattered. If only India can sort out the other end, all the runs that Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane have been scoring might amount to something

Though lazily typecast as the dour counterpoint to Warner's pyrotechnics, Rogers has shaped many an innings to fit the prevailing circumstances

Stats highlights from the fourth day of the fourth Test between Indian and Australia, in Sydney

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

Stats highlights from the third day of the fourth Test between India and Australia in Sydney

Virat Kohli sledges, he celebrates aggressively, he stares, he gets angry - with his team and the opposition - but at the end of it all he's scored a mountain of runs and refuses to be beaten by Australia

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

Stats highlights from the second day of the fourth Test between India and Australia in Sydney

Four times this Ranji Trophy season, CM Gautam has walked in to bat with Karnataka's first innings floundering and each time, he has walked away after reprising a rescue act

Stats highlights from the first day of the fourth Test between India and Australia, in Sydney

The amount of T20 cricket India play has left most of their batsmen unable to compile big Test innings and their bowlers unable to produce multiple spells of accurate bowling away from home

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

Shardul Thakur has been steadily improving across his three Ranji seasons, and much of his new-found success comes down to the effort he has put in in the off seasons

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?

Did Dhoni get it right? Should Misbah and Younis still be in the Pakistan ODI team?