Shahbaz Nadeem
Shahbaz Nadeem, the top wicket-taker this Ranji season, is perhaps the best left-arm spinner in the country at the moment. The exclusion of Amit Mishra paved way for Kuldeep Yadav to enter the Test squad for the first time in his career. He obviously deserved it but Nadeem too has been in the reckoning for a while and should have got his chance ahead of the Australia tour. His performances, which yielded him 56 wickets in 10 matches, saw him drive his team Jharkhand to the knockout stages of the prestigious tournament for the first time in their history. On spinning wickets, he has proven to be very dangerous and would surely been as effective as Jadeja. It would have been fantastic if he had the opportunity to bowl in tandem with Ravichandran Ashwin and Jadeja in the upcoming series.