This year, Indian cricket team enjoyed the edge

India's Yashasvi Jaiswal is the only batter playing in this series to have managed a 50-plus average in Tests this calendar year.

While Jaiswal has an impressive 58.18 in 2024, no Australian batter from the current squad is even close to the Indian's average - Alex Carey being the best with 33.55.

In the bowling department, India's Jasprit Bumrah and Washington Sundar as well as Australia's Josh Hazlewood are the only bowlers from the two sides to have a sub-20 average in 2024.

Though the Indian batters and bowlers have, as a whole, done reasonably better than their Australian counterparts this year so far,

TOI takes a look at the numbers of key players of both sides ahead of the all-important Adelaide Test: