Three Pakistan
players middle-order batter Fawad Alam, pacers Shaheen Shah Afridi and Hasan
Ali were named in Cricket Australia’s team of the year.

The trio were instrumental in Pakistan’s Test campaign in
the 2021, where the Babar Azam-led  unit
played nine games and lost only two.

Apart from them, four players from India – Rohit Sharma, Rishabh
Pant, Ravichandran Ashwin and Axar Patel, Sri Lanka’s Karunaratne, Australia’s Marnus
Labuschagne, England captain Joe Root and New Zealand’s Kyle Jamieson were
included in the team.

Final XI

Rohit Sharma (India)

M: 11 | Inns: 21 | Runs: 906 | Ave: 47.68 | 100s: 2 | 50s: 4
| HS: 161

Dimuth Karunaratne
(Sri Lanka) (c)

M: 7 | Inns: 13 | Runs: 902 | Ave: 69.38 | 100s: 4 | 50s: 3
| HS: 244

Marnus Labuschagne
(Australia)

M: 5 | Inns: 9 | Runs: 526 | Ave: 65.75 | 100s: 2 | 50s: 4 |
HS: 108

Joe Root (England)

M: 15 | Inns: 29 | Runs: 1708 | Ave: 61.00 | 100s: 6 | 50s:
4 | HS: 228 | Wkts: 14 | Ave: 30.50 | BBI: 5-8

Fawad Alam (Pakistan)

M: 9 | Inns: 13 | Runs: 571 | Ave: 57.10 | 100s: 3 | 50s: 2
| HS: 140

Rishabh Pant (India)
(wk)

M: 12 | Inns: 21 | Runs: 748 | Ave: 39.36 | 100s: 1 | 50s: 5
| HS: 101 | Ct: 30 | St: 6

Ravichandran Ashwin
(India)

​​​​​​​M: 9 | Wkts: 54 | Ave: 16.64 | SR: 43.0 | BBI: 6-61 |
BBM: 9-207 | 5W: 3 | 10W: 0 | Runs: 355 | Ave: 25.35 | 100s: 1 | HS: 106

Kyle Jamieson (New
Zealand)

​​​​​​​M: 5 | Wkts: 27 | Ave: 17.51 | SR: 41.8 | BBI: 6-48 |
BBM: 11-117 | 5W: 3 | 10W: 1

Axar Patel (India)

​​​​​​​M: 5 | Wkts: 36 | Ave: 11.86 | SR: 33.6 | BBI: 6-38 |
BBM: 11-70 | 5W: 5 | 10W: 1

Hasan Ali (Pakistan)

​​​​​​​M: 8 | Wkts: 41 | Ave: 16.07 | SR: 31.0 | BBI: 5-27 |
BBM: 10-94 | 5W: 5 | 10W: 1

Shaheen Shah Afridi
(Pakistan)

​​​​​​​M: 9 | Wkts: 47 | Ave: 17.06 | SR: 37.3 | BBI: 6-51 |
BBM: 10-94 | 5W: 3 | 10W: 1