Beau Webster – One of the great debuts from an all-rounder. Scores of 57 and 39 not out leave Webster with a Test batting average of 96, just like Tasmanian and Australian great Ricky Ponting after his first match in a baggy green. Also impressive with the ball. Could have had more wickets. Hit the winning runs. 9.5/10

Alex Carey – Chipped in with 21 runs – the fourth-best score in Australia’s first innings – and tidy with the gloves. Made only one score below 15 in the series but went past 36 just once. 6/10

Pat Cummins – Recorded match figures of 5-81 to take his SCG bowling average to 21.77. Picked up the big wicket of Rishabh Pant as he looked like taking the game away from Australia. Arguably his best series win as Test skipper. 8.5/10

Mitchell Starc – Pulled up sore in MCG Test but pushed through the pain to take 3-49 in the first innings, removing KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja and Prasidh Krishna. Speeds were impressive, often above 140km/h. Went for nine an over in the second innings but bowled only four overs. 7.5/10

Nathan Lyon – Took 1-19 in the first innings from six overs and wasn’t required in the second. Gone are the days of the SCG being a spinner’s paradise. Will take great delight at leading the team song after featuring in all five Tests. Lyon sent down 122.4 overs across five Tests – the fewest for him in a four or five-Test series. 6.5/10

Scott Boland – Sensational across both bowling innings, with figures of 4-31 and 6-45 across 36.5 overs to snare his first 10-wicket haul in first-class cricket. A deserved man of the match. Stocks continue to rise. Hugely influential in this series. 10/10

India

Yashasvi Jaiswal – The Australians were wary of Jaiswal, more so on the second afternoon when he cuffed 16 runs from Mitchell Starc’s first over. But he has been worn down by Boland’s excellence, unable to find an answer to the ball seaming sharply away, either from over the wicket or around. 4/10

KL Rahul – Two low scores to end a serviceable series for Rahul, for which he arrived early with Australia A and did better than either Virat Kohli or Rohit Sharma. Also caught very well in the game and across the series. 4/10

Shubman Gill – Looked more comfortable than Rohit in either innings but was out in maddening fashion in both. On day one he got caught in an exchange with Steve Smith before lunch and edged Nathan Lyon to slip, and on day two he charged wildly at Beau Webster and edged behind. Has all the talent in the world but must reassess how he uses it. 3/10

Virat Kohli – Made a lot of noise in the field but was bewitched by Boland in both innings, ending a series where every one of his dismissals was to an edge behind the wicket on the wide line that Australia now know to use. India will soon have to consider how much longer Kohli can go on in Tests. 2/10

Rishabh Pant – A pair of contrasting innings made for his most substantial contribution of a summer when Rishabh never quite caught fire. Battled conditions and himself in the slowest innings of his career on day one, then launched into a 29-ball half-century on the second evening that threatened to take the Test away from Australia. 8/10

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Ravindra Jadeja – A couple of cameo innings and very little bowling in these conditions. Has been a useful contributor for the series without suggesting he would dominate Australia as he has so often at home. 5/10

Nitish Kumar Reddy – Bowled his most effective spell of the series after Bumrah left the SCG injured to help snip off the Australian tail, but was out first ball and then for a disappointing four with a mistimed drive. Has staked his claim for a spot higher up the order. 4/10

Washington Sundar – Did not have to bowl until the game was all but over, made a couple of handy scores without a major impact. His most memorable moment of the game was a dismissal via DRS for a glove down the leg side, which was given after a five-minute deliberation by Joel Wilson. Sundar took almost as long to walk off after being given out. 4/10

Prasidh Krishna – An excellent performance as third paceman in favourable conditions, using his high action to get plenty of bounce in addition to seam movement. Put the SCG into a state of shock by dismissing Steve Smith on 9999 Test runs. 8/10