Border Gavaskar Trophy: Jasprit Bumrah's Brilliance, KL Rahul's Resurrection, Virat Kohli-Rohit Sharma Flop Show

The 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy is living up to its billing. It has been an enthralling contest between the number 1 and number 2 team in the world. India stunned Australia by 295 runs on a fast and bouncy wicket at Perth while the home team gave a resounding reply with a thumping 10-wicket victory in the Day & Night Pink Ball encounter in Adelaide. The Gabba also had its ebbs and flows before the Rain Gods had the final say. The series is now tied at 1-1 with all to play for at the MCG and SCG - the two biggest venues in Australia. While Australia might have won more sessions in the series so far, India would be the happier team given the series scoreline. 

From Jasprit Bumrah's brilliance with the new ball to KL Rahul's redemption as Test opener to the continuing flop show of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma - we look at some of the numbers that have defined India's performance in the series. 

Boom Boom Bumrah - highest impact bowler of the series 

Jasprit Bumrah has been the bowler par excellence in the series so far. He is comfortably the leading wicket-taker with a tally of 21 dismissals at a sensational average of 10.9, strike rate of 25.1 and economy of 2.6. 

Bumrah has been fast, accurate, clever and at times unplayable and has dominated most of the Australian batters in the series. He has been Usman Khwaja's nemesis dismissing the left-hander four times in five innings at an average of 4.25. Bumrah has got the other Australian opener - Nathan McSweeney - dancing to his tunes as well - getting rid of him also on four occasions in six innings at an average of 3.75. 

Bumrah has picked eight wickets with the new ball (struck within the first 15 overs) and broken the opening-wicket stand in all five innings for