Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023: Top run-getters

India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 by 2-1 to secure a place in the World Test Championship 2021-23 final. The hosts won the opening two matches with Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja taking 31 wickets combined to retain the series. Australia made a comeback in the third Test with a nine-wicket win after Nathan Lyon’s 11-fer.

The first three matches ended within three days with bowlers clearly dominating on spin-friendly pitches. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma was the only batter to score a century in the first three matches.

But the fourth Test in Ahmedabad witnessed four players, two from each team, hitting centuries. Cameron Green brought up his first international hundred while Virat Kohli ended his century drought after a gap of 1205 days. The last Test resulted in a draw as the batters enjoyed some big knocks. So, let’s take a look at the top three run-getters in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023.

3. 264 runs – Axar Patel

Ashwin and Jadeja shone with combined 47 wickets in BGT 2023 and shared the Player of the Series award. Axar managed to get just three wickets from seven innings as the spinners dominated the series. But he shone with a bat, smashing three crucial fifties and scored 264 runs from just five innings at an average of 88.00.

2. 297 runs – Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli brought up his 28th Test hundred during the first innings of the fourth Test in Ahmedabad. He scored 186 off 364 to register the highest score in this series and scored overall 296 runs from six innings at an average of 49.50.

1. 333 run – Usman Khawaja

The veteran Australian opener stepped up when the likes of Steven Smith and Marnus Labuschagne struggled against the Indian spin attack. Khawaja scored 180 off 422 in the first innings of the Ahmedabad Test and also scored two fifties in the series. He top-scored with 333 runs from seven innings at an average of 47.57 and was the only cricketer to score 300-plus runs in BGT 2023.