8. Ajinkya Rahane, India
It seems there is nothing that Rahane could do wrong at the moment. The soft-spoken Mumbai lad who had a very nervously edgy debut in Delhi, has come a long way since then. He now commands across the globe as a very good batsman, having scored runs everywhere he has gone. Just when it seems that Rahane is finally having a poor time, he puts his hand up and scores a century. You push him up, you push him down, he just shruggs it off and scores the runs when the team needs it most-Delhi being a perfect example. Those who saw his hundred at Melbourne when he calmed down the anxious Kohli at the other end by taking on Mitchell Johnson were privileged to say the least. With all these reasons and runs many more, Rahane made it really difficult to ignore him in our list of Top 10 best test batsmen of 2015.
