All the players are in Dubai, which hosted the IPL 2020 final, and will leave for Sydney where they are scheduled to arrive on November 12. They will quarantine in Sydney before the start of the ODI series.
Bumrah, who finished as 2020 IPL's second most successful bowler with 27 wickets, had been picking wickets in T20 Internationals even prior to Covid-19 lockdown.
Vaughan though supports Kohli for prioritising family before cricket, but feels that his absence will only make Aussies the favourite to reclaim the Border-Gavaskar series.
Ishant Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Vijay Shankar, Ambati Rayudu and Rishabh Pant have all suffered hamstring injury or strain during the tournament while Bhuvneshwar Kumar had to pull out due thigh muscle injury.
Steve Waugh feels that this series could have been a career-shaping contest for Kohli, but did understand the need to prioritize the family.
Kohli has been granted paternity leave after the first Test and Pathan said it is bound to have a huge impact on the team, which won a historic series under his captaincy two seasons ago.
Sanju Samson has been added as a back-up wicketkeeper to India’s ODI squad.
Ishant Sharma, however, continues to recover while BCCI's medical team will take a call on Wriddhiman Saha's availability later.
Kohli has been granted paternity leave to be with his wife Anushka Sharma for the birth of their first child.
It will now depend on what call BCCI mandarins take considering that physio Nitin Patel's medical reports have of late come under scanner due to divergent views of the IPL franchises.
As he entered the Indian cricket team's bio-bubble in Dubai as the throwdown expert cum masseuse for the upcoming tour of Australia, the 28-year-old Garani now firmly believes that dreams do come true.
Most squad members are part of the IPL and have been in the UAE since August. The Australia tour will stretch to the new year, leaving the players on the road for more than four months, that too with little connection to the outside world.
Dhawan has scored 1145 runs gainst Australia in the ODI format in 26 innings at 45.80 with four centuries and six fifties.
Prithvi had opened for India in the two-match Test series against New Zealand earlier this year where he scored 98 runs with one half-century score.
A member of the Apex Council confirmed the development on Monday that BCCI has inked the apparel and merchandise deal with MPL, replacing Nike.
According to Manjrekar, a bad precedent is set when a player is recalled for Test on the basis of his IPL performance and it "massively motivates" players playing the Ranji Trophy.
BCCI on Monday picked a 28-member jumbo squad for the all-format tour of Australia which begins November, along with four reserve bowlers.
Chakravarthy was on Monday named in India's T20I squad for the upcoming three-match series against Australia following his impressive showing in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL).
BCCI, in its press release, stated that their medical team would "continue to monitor [Rohit's] progress". There was nothing mentioned about the injury or the recovery period, neither did Mumbai Indians release a statement about Rohit's present fitness status.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday announced all the three squads with the statement that their medical team "will continue to monitor the progress of Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma."
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