It was a breakthrough year for Team India as they emerged as the cricketing world's new superpower in 2008 with consistent performances in both Tests and One-Day Internationals.

Gautam Gambhir [Images] was the star performer for India with the bat with more than 1000 runs in both Tests and ODIs, that included three centuries each in both formats.

Harbhajan Singh [Images] ended as India's top wicket-taker in Tests with a tally of 63 wickets in 13 matches, while youngster Ishant Sharma continued making waves as he claimed 27 wickets in 19 ODIs.

A look at the detailed statistics:

India in 2008:

	Mts	Won	Lost	Drawn/NR	Won%
Tests	15	6	4	5	40.00
ODIs	29	19	8	2	65.52
T20Is	1	0	1	0	0.00

Batting averages in Tests in 2008:

Batsman	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	100s	50s	0s	Ct	St
V Sehwag	14	27	1	1462	319	56.23	3	6	1	6	0
G Gambhir	8	16	0	1134	206	70.88	3	6	0	8	0
VVS Laxman	15	27	4	1086	200*	47.22	2	7	2	15	0
SR Tendulkar	13	25	3	1063	154*	48.32	4	3	1	5	0
RS Dravid	15	28	2	805	136	30.96	2	4	2	20	0
SC Ganguly	13	25	3	783	102	35.59	1	5	4	6	0
MS Dhoni [Images]	12	19	1	633	92	35.17	0	6	1	26	5
Harbhajan Singh	13	21	2	410	63	21.58	0	4	1	5	0
Yuvraj Singh [Images]	4	7	1	256	86	42.67	0	2	1	3	0
A Kumble	10	17	2	231	87	15.40	0	1	2	5	0
W Jaffer	5	9	0	156	73	17.33	0	1	1	8	0
IK Pathan	3	6	2	147	46	36.75	0	0	1	0	0
Zaheer Khan [Images]	9	13	3	145	57*	14.50	0	1	1	4	0
I Sharma	13	20	11	118	23	13.11	0	0	5	3	0
M Vijay	1	2	0	74	41	37.00	0	0	0	1	0
RP Singh	5	8	0	51	30	6.38	0	0	5	2	0
S Sreesanth [Images]	3	4	1	50	29	16.67	0	0	1	0	0
A Mishra	5	5	1	42	23	10.50	0	0	1	2	0
KD Karthik	2	4	0	36	20	9.00	0	0	1	4	0
PA Patel	1	2	0	14	13	7.00	0	0	0	2	1
P Chawla	1	1	0	4	4	4.00	0	0	0	0	0

Bowling averages in Tests in 2008:

Bowler	Mts	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Best	5WI	10WM	Avg	SR	RpO
Harbhajan Singh	13	705	105	1987	63	6-102	2	1	31.54	67.14	2.82
I Sharma	13	392.3	67	1201	38	4-77	0	0	31.61	61.97	3.06
A Kumble	10	462.5	60	1430	28	4-106	0	0	51.07	99.18	3.09
Zaheer Khan	9	309.5	60	995	27	5-91	1	0	36.85	68.85	3.21
A Mishra	5	205	37	593	20	5-71	1	0	29.65	61.50	2.89
V Sehwag	14	172.5	24	475	15	5-104	1	0	31.67	69.13	2.75
RP Singh	5	134.5	15	610	11	4-68	0	0	55.45	73.55	4.52
IK Pathan	3	90.2	9	314	8	3-54	0	0	39.25	67.75	3.48
S Sreesanth	3	81	13	274	4	2-87	0	0	68.50	121.50	3.38
Yuvraj Singh	4	38	5	122	3	1-12	0	0	40.67	76.00	3.21
P Chawla	1	20	3	84	2	2-66	0	0	42.00	60.00	4.20
MS Dhoni	12	1	0	1	0	0-1	0	0	-	-	1.00
VVS Laxman	15	10	2	19	0	0-19	0	0	-	-	1.90
SR Tendulkar	13	11	0	41	0	0-2	0	0	-	-	3.73
SC Ganguly	13	28.1	4	83	0	0-1	0	0	-	-	2.95

Batting averages in ODIs in 2008:

Batsman	Mts	Inns	NO	Runs	Hs	Avg	100s	50s	0s	SR	Ct	St
G Gambhir	27	27	3	1119	113	46.63	3	7	1	90.53	8	0
MS Dhoni	29	26	7	1097	109*	57.74	1	8	0	82.30	38	11
V Sehwag	18	18	0	893	119	49.61	1	8	0	120.03	5	0
Yuvraj Singh	27	27	4	893	138*	38.83	2	3	2	100.22	5	0
SK Raina	19	18	3	680	116*	45.33	2	5	0	94.84	9	0
RG Sharma	28	28	7	532	70*	25.33	0	3	2	72.58	8	0
SR Tendulkar	12	12	1	460	117*	41.82	1	3	1	84.25	6	0
IK Pathan	20	13	1	223	38*	18.58	0	0	0	72.40	2	0
RV Uthappa	13	11	2	179	51	19.89	0	1	0	65.09	4	0
V Kohli	5	5	0	159	54	31.80	0	1	0	66.53	3	0
YK Pathan	12	7	3	96	50*	24.00	0	1	2	107.87	4	0
Harbhajan Singh	19	10	0	82	27	8.20	0	0	0	82.83	3	0
S Badrinath	3	3	1	39	27*	19.50	0	0	0	44.83	2	0
P Kumar	14	7	3	29	7	7.25	0	0	0	72.50	5	0
PP Ojha	5	3	2	27	16*	27.00	0	0	0	49.09	4	0
MM Patel	12	5	3	20	15	10.00	0	0	1	74.07	1	0
Zaheer Khan	10	6	1	19	12	3.80	0	0	1	26.03	4	0
I Sharma	19	6	4	13	8	6.50	0	0	0	36.11	5	0
S Sreesanth	7	4	2	9	4	4.50	0	0	0	69.23	0	0
P Chawla	8	3	2	8	6*	8.00	0	0	0	88.89	4	0
RP Singh	9	3	0	8	4	2.67	0	0	1	42.11	2	0
MK Tiwary	1	1	0	2	2	2.00	0	0	0	12.50	0	0
MS Gony	2	0	0	0	dnb	-	0	0	0	-	0	0

Bowling averages in ODIs in 2008:

Bowler	Mts	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Best	4W	Avg	SR	RpO
I Sharma	19	152.1	4	812	27	4-38	2	30.07	33.81	5.34
P Kumar	14	122.3	12	592	21	4-31	3	28.19	35.00	4.83
Harbhajan Singh	19	136.5	4	602	21	3-31	0	28.67	39.10	4.40
IK Pathan	20	155.2	5	902	21	4-41	1	42.95	44.38	5.81
Zaheer Khan	10	86.2	14	332	17	4-21	1	19.53	30.47	3.85
MM Patel	12	91.4	8	395	14	3-42	0	28.21	39.29	4.31
RP Singh	9	70	6	413	12	3-46	0	34.42	35.00	5.90
P Chawla	8	72.4	2	373	11	4-23	2	33.91	39.64	5.13
Yuvraj Singh	27	98	0	469	10	4-28	1	46.90	58.80	4.79
S Sreesanth	7	40.2	0	232	9	3-31	0	25.78	26.89	5.75
V Sehwag	18	56.5	0	316	8	3-28	0	39.50	42.63	5.56
YK Pathan	12	47.4	0	276	6	1-7	0	46.00	47.67	5.79
PP Ojha	5	43	5	173	5	2-28	0	34.60	51.60	4.02
MS Gony	2	13	1	76	2	2-65	0	38.00	39.00	5.85
SR Tendulkar	12	4	0	21	0	0-6	0	-	-	5.25
RG Sharma	28	14.5	1	60	0	0-4	0	-	-	4.04
SK Raina	19	3	0	22	0	0-11	0	-	-	7.33