Rating India's Test cricketers in 2017

After ending 2016 on a high with huge series wins against New Zealand and England, India had the challenge of extending their winning streak against Australia. While they eventually won the series (albeit with a hiccup in Pune), the side found new stars and brushed off the rust from the old ones.

Here's rating the Indian players who represented the side in 2017 in Tests:

Rating: 5/10

That innings of 303 turned him into a newspaper headline for a day, but the stark reality was that the pressure that followed was too much to handle for a two-Test veteran like Karun Nair.

He played three Tests this year, but came a complete cropper, salvaging 54 runs in four innings. He did not play after the Australia series.

A solid performer on debut in 2016, Jayant Yadav was one of the many options India had in the spin department, but the emergence of other backup options like Kuldeep Yadav has pushed him off even the benches.

Rating: 7/10

He's been on the fringes for quite a while, but was plucked out of wilderness late last year. Having hammered away runs consistently in domestic cricket, Abhinav Mukund was drafted as the fourth opener and got a few scattered opportunities owing to injuries to the first choice players. Apart from a half-century against Sri Lanka, he failed to make a big impact.

Going by his lofty standards, it was a sub-standard year for Ajinkya Rahane, who was unable to translate his limited-overs success as comprehensively in the whites. He looked the part at the start of the year and even notched a hundred in Sri Lanka, but his recent showings against the same opposition at home raised quite a few eyebrows. He is one of India's biggest hopes on the challenging South African pitches. Hopefully, he can shake off the rut real quick.