Angelo Mathews has been ruled out of the three ODIs and a solitary T20I against New Zealand, and will most certainly won't be a part of Sri Lanka's two-match Test series in Australia early next year after scans revealed a grade two strain in his left hamstring.
Australia have added all-rounder Marnus Labuschagne to the squad for the fourth and final Test in Sydney.
It has been a disastrous year for Australia. Since the Sydney Test in the first week of January, only one Australian batsman has scored a century – Khawaja in Dubai – from nine Tests.
Kohli has a chance to script history by becoming the first Indian captain to win a Test series in Australia.
Rain initially threatened to play spoilsport on the final day of the Boxing Day Test but India ensured there was no change in script for them as they wrapped up Australian tail and the contest by 137 runs to take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match Test series on Sunday, thereby retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (December 30).
There was rain, there were thunderstorms, the clouds played hide & seek but in the end all India needed were two good deliveries on the final day and it took them all of 4.3 overs to produce them and wrap up proceedings at Melbourne Cricket Ground to take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match Test series on Sunday.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni took everyone by surprise as he announced his retirement from Test cricket in the middle of an away series against Australia.