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Gill's Test average in 2026 is 52, up from 33 in 2024. The number that explains the rise is the number of balls he has left, which is 147 in his last 15 innings, more than any Indian opener in the same period. Here is the form sheet and the numbers behind it.
Kohli's 2026 Test average is 68, the highest of any year in his career. The number is not the number of a player in decline. The number is the number of a player who has stopped chasing the balls outside off and who has, in the stopping, found the runs that the chasing cost him.
Rohit's 2026 Test average is 41, down from 48 in 2025. The number is the number of a player in his last year, and the last year is the year that the leaving has not fixed, because the leaving is the thing that the seam does, and the seam is the thing that Rohit, at 38, has slowed against, and the slowing is the thing that the dismissals come from.
