Man of the Series IND vs AUS Test series: Who won Man of the Series India vs Australia Test series 2023?

Dixit Bhargav | 13/03/2023
Man of the Series IND vs AUS Test series: Who won Man of the Series India vs Australia Test series 2023?

The fourth Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 Test match between India and Australia has ended in a draw at the Narendra Modi Stadium. With the pitch not producing enough wear and tear for Indian bowlers to trouble the Australian batters on the final day of the series, a lacklustre day primarily comprised Australian batters Travis Head (90) and Marnus Labuschagne (63*) scoring individual half-centuries.

The development means that India have won the four-match series 2-1. In what is their fourth successive Test series win against Australia, it is needless to say that the home team has retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

All in all, all the four matches were played in excellent spirit on the part of both the teams. A series lacking any sort of controversy between the players will be remembered solely for cricketing reasons.

Man of the Series IND vs AUS Test series 2023

In a rare decision for a Test series being played in India, the panel decided to announce two winners for the Player of the Series award. Hence, India all-rounders Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja shared the trophy in Ahmedabad on Monday.

In what is Ashwin’s 10th (second-highest) such award in this format, Jadeja has only won it for the second time. While the former has been adjudged the Man of the Series in Test cricket after 15 months, the latter has managed to bag it after as many as six years. Co-incidentally, Jadeja’s previous such award had come during Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2017 (also at home).

Readers must note that Ashwin finished the series as its highest wicket-taker picking 25 wickets at an average and strike rate of 17.28 and 19.9 respectively. With the bat in hand, the right-handed batter’s 86 runs across five innings came at an average of 17.20.

Jadeja, on the contrary, dismissed 22 batters at an average of 18.86 and a strike rate of 43.9 to be the second-highest wicket-taker in BGT 2023. Having also batted five times during the course of the series, the left-handed batter scored 135 runs at 27.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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