Hardik Pandya's stellar performance with the bat in the limited-overs series, in which he aggregated 268 runs at 89.33 in five One-day Intrenationals and T20s against Australia, may have improved his chances of inclusion in the Indian Test squad for the series beginning this month. Pandya is not part of the Test squad at the moment.

India are struggling with injuries to Test team regulars like Rohit Sharma, who will miss the first two Tests due to injury. Ishant Sharma too is in India and recovering from an injury while Ravindra Jadeja is yet to recover from the concussion he sustained during the first T20 International on Friday in Canberra.