When a cricket team can be found within the top five rungs of the rankings ladder in all 3 formats of the game, you&#8217;ve got to admit that they&#8217;ve been doing something extraordinarily right. India have had a fantastic year so far in 2017 in every zone and in all quarters. They&#8217;ve had a seemingly unending unbeaten streak, most of them on home turf albeit. However, this barely takes away anything from the team that has toiled day in and day out for the past 12 months to be standing tall at No.1 in Test, No. 2 in ODIs and No.4 in T20I rankings.

India&#8217;s remarkable success rate in the recent past has been nothing but a high turnover of the abundant talent of the existing player pool that they possess right now. They&#8217;ve beaten Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka in the year that&#8217;s about to come to a close, and they&#8217;ve done so on a trot, proving their strength as a unit in the process. Currently, 6 Indian players can be found in the ICC Top 10 Players ratings (batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders combined) over all the formats of the game.

Indian batsmen, such as Virat Kohli, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/list-of-records-rohit-sharma-created-with-his-magnificent-35-ball-hundred/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rohit Sharma</strong></a>, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara and the bowlers, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and the likes have contributed heavily to the team&#8217;s winning causes. Batting and bowling records have been written and re-written by India in 2017 plenty of times as they&#8217;ve left a vivid mark on the cricketing calendar of 2017. Here&#8217;s our take on the top 5 performers for Team India in 2017:

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/11/Bhuvneshwar-Kumar-India.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-192430" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Bhuvneshwar-Kumar-India.jpg" alt="Bhuvneshwar Kumar India" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-192430" class="wp-caption-text">Bhuvneshwar Kumar. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

Indian pace spearhead, Bhuvneshwar Kumar may have only played 3 Tests in 2017, but he has bagged 11 scalps in that very short span, at an average of 21.00 and an economy of 2.67. Kumar has been instrumental in Indian victories for quite some years now and the lanky bowler has only gone up the performance ladder in 2017, playing lesser matches than usual. Since India currently boasts of an immensely strong bench strength, Kumar has found it difficult to make it to the Playing XI in the longer format of the game.

In the 50-over version, the 27-year-old has played 24 ODIs and has picked up 28 wickets in the process, including a 5-wicket haul against Sri Lanka at Colombo in September 2017. The T20 format got to see very less of him this year as he got only 5 dismissals in the 7 T20Is he played. Kumar&#8217;s notable performance came in the Kolkata Test against <strong>Sri Lanka</strong> in September this year, where he executed his swing bowling talent to perfection and ended the Test with figures of 8/96 in both Lankan innings combined.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Jasprit-Bumrah-6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-171675" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Jasprit-Bumrah-6.jpg" alt="Jasprit Bumrah India v Sri Lanka" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-171675" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Jasprit Bumrah. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Pacer, Jasprit Bumrah shone like a shooting star for India in 2017 in the limited-overs games. At the time of this being written, he&#8217;s the top T20I bowler and the third best ODI bowler according to ICC bowler rankings. Armed with accurate yorkers and impeccable death-bowling skills, Bumrah has emerged as a real asset for the Indian side in the recent years and his importance in the team was all the more evident in 2017.

In the 23 ODIs that the 24-year-old fast bowler has played for India in 2017, Bumrah has picked up 39 wickets along with the best bowling figure of 5/27 and two Man of the Match awards. Furthermore, he sports an average of 26.25 in the 50-overs format &#8211; a remarkable figure given the brutal hitting that fast bowlers can be subjected to owing to factors like field restrictions. As for T20Is, Bumrah has worn the blue jersey for 11 games in the year and has bagged 12 scalps at an average of 20.00 and economy of 6.92.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/03/Ravindra-Jadeja-6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-122007" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Ravindra-Jadeja-6.jpg" alt="Ravindra Jadeja India" width="600" height="451" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-122007" class="wp-caption-text">Ravindra Jadeja. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption>

&#8216;Sir&#8217; Jadeja, as he&#8217;s fondly known as, is currently the third-ranked bowler in the Test format rankings by the ICC, bearing witness to his performances in 2017. The feisty all-rounder has been a star for Indian cricket this year, especially in Tests. When it comes to his batting, Jadeja has amassed 328 runs over 14 Test innings in 2017, with the highest score of 70*. With the red cherry, he&#8217;s picked up 20 wickets in the 10 Tests he played at an average of just 23.05. Moreover, he has 3 five-fors in 2017, two coming against Australia and one against Sri-Lanka.

As time has passed, Jadeja has emerged as the front-line spinner for the white jersey format of the game for India, and as a result, has been seen in only 10 ODIs and a lone T20I in 2017. In the 10 ODIs, he&#8217;s got the 8 dismissals at an economy of 5.22. Jadeja&#8217;s breakthrough performance for the year was against<strong> Australia</strong> in Ranchi Test held in March 2017 where he ended the match with figures of 93.3-26-178-9.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/09/Virat-Kohli.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-173711" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-173711" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Seldom does the world get to witness a player as prolific as <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/virat-kohli-sizzles-dance-floor-wife-anushka-sharma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a> and 2017 only saw him get even better. The 29-year-old achieved greater heights in all 3 formats of the game as he accrued 1059 Test runs, 1460 ODI runs and 299 T20I runs in 2017 alone. He&#8217;s currently placed at the No.1 position in both ODIs and T2os and at No.2 in Tests when it comes to the ICC Batsmen Rankings.

Kohli has marshalled his troop as a brilliant leader, winning almost everything within sight and more importantly, maintained a positive spirit within the team and held it together as a cohesive unit. As a batsman, his purple patch has continued in 2017 as he smashed three Test double centuries in the span of 11 months, supplemented by 5 tons in the longest format. As for the shorter formats in 2017, Kohli sports a gargantuan average of 76.84 in the ODIs, aided by 6 centuries and in T20s, he boasts of a strike rate of 152.55, in spite of having missed the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka in December.

<a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Cheteshwar-Pujara-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-165621" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Cheteshwar-Pujara-2.jpg" alt="Cheteshwar Pujara" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-165621" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption>

Pick up the 2017 Test records in any area regarding batting and you&#8217;ll find Cheteshwar Pujara sitting there jubilantly. The 29-year-old batsman has raised the bar to touch the sky in 2017 as he batted his way to glory this year. He&#8217;s the highest run-getter in the longest format of the game in 2017, with 1140 runs to his name in only 11 Tests at a hefty average of 67.05.

Pujara had garnered interest amongst critics and fans alike from the very time that he&#8217;d ventured into the foray of the cricketing world. Touted as the next <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/england-in-2011-if-had-not-had-a-good-tour-i-would-have-quit-rahul-dravid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rahul Dravid</strong> </a>at one point of time, he has since managed to prevent the pressure of comparisons from getting to him and has carved a niche for himself, more so in the present calendar year. Pujara has scored 4 hundreds and 5 half-centuries in the process and also registered a double century (202 runs) against Australia at Ranchi on March 16, 2017. He&#8217;s currently ranked third in the ICC Rankings for Test Batsmen.

<p>When a cricket team can be found within the top five rungs of the rankings ladder in all 3 formats of the game, you’ve got to admit that they’ve been doing something extraordinarily right. India have had a fantastic year so far in 2017 in every zone and in all quarters. They’ve had a seemingly unending unbeaten streak, most of them on home turf albeit. However, this barely takes away anything from the team that has toiled day in and day out for the past 12 months to be standing tall at No.1 in Test, No. 2 in ODIs and No.4 in T20I rankings.</p>
<p>India’s remarkable success rate in the recent past has been nothing but a high turnover of the abundant talent of the existing player pool that they possess right now. They’ve beaten Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka in the year that’s about to come to a close, and they’ve done so on a trot, proving their strength as a unit in the process. Currently, 6 Indian players can be found in the ICC Top 10 Players ratings (batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders combined) over all the formats of the game.</p>
<p>Indian batsmen, such as Virat Kohli, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/list-of-records-rohit-sharma-created-with-his-magnificent-35-ball-hundred/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rohit Sharma</strong></a>, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara and the bowlers, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and the likes have contributed heavily to the team’s winning causes. Batting and bowling records have been written and re-written by India in 2017 plenty of times as they’ve left a vivid mark on the cricketing calendar of 2017.&nbsp;Here’s our take on the top 5 performers for Team India in 2017:</p>
<h3>5. Bhuvneshwar Kumar</h3>
<figure id="attachment_192430" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-192430" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/11/Bhuvneshwar-Kumar-India.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-192430" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Bhuvneshwar-Kumar-India.jpg" alt="Bhuvneshwar Kumar India" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-192430" class="wp-caption-text">Bhuvneshwar Kumar. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Indian pace spearhead, Bhuvneshwar Kumar may have only played 3 Tests in 2017, but he has bagged 11 scalps in that very short span, at an average of 21.00 and an economy of 2.67. Kumar has been instrumental in Indian victories for quite some years now and the lanky bowler has only gone up the performance ladder in 2017, playing lesser matches than usual. Since India currently boasts of an immensely strong bench strength, Kumar has found it difficult to make it to the Playing XI in the longer format of the game.</p>
<p>In the 50-over version, the 27-year-old has played 24 ODIs and has picked up 28 wickets in the process, including a 5-wicket haul against Sri Lanka at Colombo in September 2017. The T20 format got to see very less of him this year as he got only 5 dismissals in the 7 T20Is he played. Kumar’s notable performance came in the Kolkata Test against <strong>Sri Lanka</strong> in September this year, where he executed his swing bowling talent to perfection and ended the Test with figures of 8/96 in both Lankan innings combined.</p>
<h3>4. Jasprit Bumrah</h3>
<figure id="attachment_171675" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-171675" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Jasprit-Bumrah-6.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-171675" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Jasprit-Bumrah-6.jpg" alt="Jasprit Bumrah India v Sri Lanka" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-171675" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Jasprit Bumrah. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Pacer, Jasprit Bumrah shone like a shooting star for India in 2017 in the limited-overs games. At the time of this being written, he’s the top T20I bowler and the third best ODI bowler according to ICC bowler rankings. Armed with accurate yorkers and impeccable death-bowling skills, Bumrah has emerged as a real asset for the Indian side in the recent years and his importance in the team was all the more evident in 2017.</p>
<p>In the 23 ODIs that the 24-year-old fast bowler has played for India in 2017, Bumrah has picked up 39 wickets along with the best bowling figure of 5/27 and two Man of the Match awards. Furthermore, he sports an average of 26.25 in the 50-overs format – a remarkable figure given the brutal hitting that fast bowlers can be subjected to owing to factors like field restrictions.&nbsp;As for T20Is, Bumrah has worn the blue jersey for 11 games in the year and has bagged 12 scalps at an average of 20.00 and economy of 6.92.</p>
<h3>3. Ravindra Jadeja</h3>
<figure id="attachment_122007" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122007" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/03/Ravindra-Jadeja-6.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-122007" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Ravindra-Jadeja-6.jpg" alt="Ravindra Jadeja India" width="600" height="451" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-122007" class="wp-caption-text">Ravindra Jadeja. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>‘Sir’ Jadeja, as he’s fondly known as, is currently the third-ranked bowler in the Test format rankings by the ICC, bearing witness to his performances in 2017. The feisty all-rounder has been a star for Indian cricket this year, especially in Tests. When it comes to his batting, Jadeja has amassed 328 runs over 14 Test innings in 2017, with the highest score of 70*. With the red cherry, he’s picked up 20 wickets in the 10 Tests he played at an average of just 23.05. Moreover, he has 3 five-fors in 2017, two coming against Australia and one against Sri-Lanka.</p>
<p>As time has passed, Jadeja has emerged as the front-line spinner for the white jersey format of the game for India, and as a result, has been seen in only 10 ODIs and a lone T20I in 2017. In the 10 ODIs, he’s got the 8 dismissals at an economy of 5.22. Jadeja’s breakthrough performance for the year was against<strong> Australia</strong> in Ranchi Test held in March 2017 where he ended the match with figures of 93.3-26-178-9.</p>
<h3>2. Virat Kohli</h3>
<figure id="attachment_173711" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-173711" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/09/Virat-Kohli.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-173711" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-173711" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Seldom does the world get to witness a player as prolific as <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/virat-kohli-sizzles-dance-floor-wife-anushka-sharma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a> and 2017 only saw him get even better. The 29-year-old achieved greater heights in all 3 formats of the game as he accrued 1059 Test runs, 1460 ODI runs and 299 T20I runs in 2017 alone. He’s currently placed at the No.1 position in both ODIs and T2os and at No.2 in Tests when it comes to the ICC Batsmen Rankings.</p>
<p>Kohli has marshalled his troop as a brilliant leader, winning almost everything within sight and more importantly, maintained a positive spirit within the team and held it together as a cohesive unit. As a batsman, his purple patch has continued in 2017 as he smashed three Test double centuries in the span of 11 months, supplemented by 5 tons in the longest format. As for the shorter formats in 2017, Kohli sports a gargantuan average of 76.84 in the ODIs, aided by 6 centuries and in T20s, he boasts of a strike rate of 152.55, in spite of having missed the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka in December.</p>
<h3>1. Cheteshwar Pujara</h3>
<figure id="attachment_165621" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-165621" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Cheteshwar-Pujara-2.jpg"><amp-img class="size-full wp-image-165621" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Cheteshwar-Pujara-2.jpg" alt="Cheteshwar Pujara" width="640" height="400" layout="responsive" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 0;"></amp-img></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-165621" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Pick up the 2017 Test records in any area regarding batting and you’ll find Cheteshwar Pujara sitting there jubilantly. The 29-year-old batsman has raised the bar to touch the sky in 2017 as he batted his way to glory this year. He’s the highest run-getter in the longest format of the game in 2017, with 1140 runs to his name in only 11 Tests at a hefty average of 67.05.</p>
<p>Pujara had garnered interest amongst critics and fans alike from the very time that he’d ventured into the foray of the cricketing world. Touted as the next <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/england-in-2011-if-had-not-had-a-good-tour-i-would-have-quit-rahul-dravid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rahul Dravid</strong> </a>at one point of time, he has since managed to prevent the pressure of comparisons from getting to him and has carved a niche for himself, more so in the present calendar year. Pujara has scored 4 hundreds and 5 half-centuries in the process and also registered a double century (202 runs) against Australia at Ranchi on March 16, 2017. He’s currently ranked third in the ICC Rankings for Test Batsmen.</p>
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<p>When a cricket team can be found within the top five rungs of the rankings ladder in all 3 formats of the game, you&#8217;ve got to admit that they&#8217;ve been doing something extraordinarily right. India have had a fantastic year so far in 2017 in every zone and in all quarters. They&#8217;ve had a seemingly unending unbeaten streak, most of them on home turf albeit. However, this barely takes away anything from the team that has toiled day in and day out for the past 12 months to be standing tall at No.1 in Test, No. 2 in ODIs and No.4 in T20I rankings.</p>
<p>India&#8217;s remarkable success rate in the recent past has been nothing but a high turnover of the abundant talent of the existing player pool that they possess right now. They&#8217;ve beaten Bangladesh, Australia, New Zealand, England, West Indies and Sri Lanka in the year that&#8217;s about to come to a close, and they&#8217;ve done so on a trot, proving their strength as a unit in the process. Currently, 6 Indian players can be found in the ICC Top 10 Players ratings (batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders combined) over all the formats of the game.</p>
<p>Indian batsmen, such as Virat Kohli, <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/list-of-records-rohit-sharma-created-with-his-magnificent-35-ball-hundred/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rohit Sharma</strong></a>, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara and the bowlers, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and the likes have contributed heavily to the team&#8217;s winning causes. Batting and bowling records have been written and re-written by India in 2017 plenty of times as they&#8217;ve left a vivid mark on the cricketing calendar of 2017. Here&#8217;s our take on the top 5 performers for Team India in 2017:</p>
<h3>5. Bhuvneshwar Kumar</h3>
<figure id="attachment_192430" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-192430" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/11/Bhuvneshwar-Kumar-India.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-192430" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Bhuvneshwar-Kumar-India.jpg" alt="Bhuvneshwar Kumar India" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-192430" class="wp-caption-text">Bhuvneshwar Kumar. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Indian pace spearhead, Bhuvneshwar Kumar may have only played 3 Tests in 2017, but he has bagged 11 scalps in that very short span, at an average of 21.00 and an economy of 2.67. Kumar has been instrumental in Indian victories for quite some years now and the lanky bowler has only gone up the performance ladder in 2017, playing lesser matches than usual. Since India currently boasts of an immensely strong bench strength, Kumar has found it difficult to make it to the Playing XI in the longer format of the game.</p>
<p>In the 50-over version, the 27-year-old has played 24 ODIs and has picked up 28 wickets in the process, including a 5-wicket haul against Sri Lanka at Colombo in September 2017. The T20 format got to see very less of him this year as he got only 5 dismissals in the 7 T20Is he played. Kumar&#8217;s notable performance came in the Kolkata Test against <strong>Sri Lanka</strong> in September this year, where he executed his swing bowling talent to perfection and ended the Test with figures of 8/96 in both Lankan innings combined.</p>
<h3>4. Jasprit Bumrah</h3>
<figure id="attachment_171675" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-171675" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Jasprit-Bumrah-6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-171675" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Jasprit-Bumrah-6.jpg" alt="Jasprit Bumrah India v Sri Lanka" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-171675" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Jasprit Bumrah. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Pacer, Jasprit Bumrah shone like a shooting star for India in 2017 in the limited-overs games. At the time of this being written, he&#8217;s the top T20I bowler and the third best ODI bowler according to ICC bowler rankings. Armed with accurate yorkers and impeccable death-bowling skills, Bumrah has emerged as a real asset for the Indian side in the recent years and his importance in the team was all the more evident in 2017.</p>
<p>In the 23 ODIs that the 24-year-old fast bowler has played for India in 2017, Bumrah has picked up 39 wickets along with the best bowling figure of 5/27 and two Man of the Match awards. Furthermore, he sports an average of 26.25 in the 50-overs format &#8211; a remarkable figure given the brutal hitting that fast bowlers can be subjected to owing to factors like field restrictions. As for T20Is, Bumrah has worn the blue jersey for 11 games in the year and has bagged 12 scalps at an average of 20.00 and economy of 6.92.</p>
<h3>3. Ravindra Jadeja</h3>
<figure id="attachment_122007" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-122007" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/03/Ravindra-Jadeja-6.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-122007" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Ravindra-Jadeja-6.jpg" alt="Ravindra Jadeja India" width="600" height="451" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-122007" class="wp-caption-text">Ravindra Jadeja. (Photo Source: Twitter)</figcaption></figure>
<p>&#8216;Sir&#8217; Jadeja, as he&#8217;s fondly known as, is currently the third-ranked bowler in the Test format rankings by the ICC, bearing witness to his performances in 2017. The feisty all-rounder has been a star for Indian cricket this year, especially in Tests. When it comes to his batting, Jadeja has amassed 328 runs over 14 Test innings in 2017, with the highest score of 70*. With the red cherry, he&#8217;s picked up 20 wickets in the 10 Tests he played at an average of just 23.05. Moreover, he has 3 five-fors in 2017, two coming against Australia and one against Sri-Lanka.</p>
<p>As time has passed, Jadeja has emerged as the front-line spinner for the white jersey format of the game for India, and as a result, has been seen in only 10 ODIs and a lone T20I in 2017. In the 10 ODIs, he&#8217;s got the 8 dismissals at an economy of 5.22. Jadeja&#8217;s breakthrough performance for the year was against<strong> Australia</strong> in Ranchi Test held in March 2017 where he ended the match with figures of 93.3-26-178-9.</p>
<h3>2. Virat Kohli</h3>
<figure id="attachment_173711" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-173711" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/09/Virat-Kohli.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-173711" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Virat-Kohli.jpg" alt="Virat Kohli" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-173711" class="wp-caption-text">Virat Kohli. (Photo by ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Seldom does the world get to witness a player as prolific as <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/virat-kohli-sizzles-dance-floor-wife-anushka-sharma/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Virat Kohli</strong></a> and 2017 only saw him get even better. The 29-year-old achieved greater heights in all 3 formats of the game as he accrued 1059 Test runs, 1460 ODI runs and 299 T20I runs in 2017 alone. He&#8217;s currently placed at the No.1 position in both ODIs and T2os and at No.2 in Tests when it comes to the ICC Batsmen Rankings.</p>
<p>Kohli has marshalled his troop as a brilliant leader, winning almost everything within sight and more importantly, maintained a positive spirit within the team and held it together as a cohesive unit. As a batsman, his purple patch has continued in 2017 as he smashed three Test double centuries in the span of 11 months, supplemented by 5 tons in the longest format. As for the shorter formats in 2017, Kohli sports a gargantuan average of 76.84 in the ODIs, aided by 6 centuries and in T20s, he boasts of a strike rate of 152.55, in spite of having missed the limited-overs series against Sri Lanka in December.</p>
<h3>1. Cheteshwar Pujara</h3>
<figure id="attachment_165621" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-165621" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/2017/04/Cheteshwar-Pujara-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-165621" src="https://media.crictracker.com/media/attachments/Cheteshwar-Pujara-2.jpg" alt="Cheteshwar Pujara" width="640" height="400" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-165621" class="wp-caption-text">Indian cricketer Cheteshwar Pujara. (Photo by LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>
<p>Pick up the 2017 Test records in any area regarding batting and you&#8217;ll find Cheteshwar Pujara sitting there jubilantly. The 29-year-old batsman has raised the bar to touch the sky in 2017 as he batted his way to glory this year. He&#8217;s the highest run-getter in the longest format of the game in 2017, with 1140 runs to his name in only 11 Tests at a hefty average of 67.05.</p>
<p>Pujara had garnered interest amongst critics and fans alike from the very time that he&#8217;d ventured into the foray of the cricketing world. Touted as the next <a href="https://www.crictracker.com/england-in-2011-if-had-not-had-a-good-tour-i-would-have-quit-rahul-dravid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Rahul Dravid</strong> </a>at one point of time, he has since managed to prevent the pressure of comparisons from getting to him and has carved a niche for himself, more so in the present calendar year. Pujara has scored 4 hundreds and 5 half-centuries in the process and also registered a double century (202 runs) against Australia at Ranchi on March 16, 2017. He&#8217;s currently ranked third in the ICC Rankings for Test Batsmen.</p>
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India's remarkable success rate in the recent past has been nothing but a high turnover of the abundant talent of the existing player pool that they possess right now.

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