Mahindra & Mahindra group chairman Anand Mahindra took to Twitter on Saturday to announce that he will gift SUVs to the six Indian cricketers who played their first Test in Australia and stood up to the challenge.

In a series of tweets, Anand Mahindra praised Shardul Thakur, Shubman Gill, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar and T Natarajan for inspiring the future generations to "dream and explore the impossible."

The players rose to the occasion as India had to make drastic changes in their playing XI throughout the four-match series due to injuries and unavailability of players. As many as five players debuted in the series which India eventually won 2-1 through sheer grit and guts against a fiery Australian pace attack.