India's tottering Border-Gavaskar Trophy defence may soon claim a second victim with skipper Rohit Sharma looking at the end of his test career after being dropped for the fifth and final test against Australia on Friday.

The whole of Sydney Cricket Ground and the Australian team caps were draped in pink colour ahead of the fifth and final Test against India.

The Indian cricket team is set to face Australia in the fifth and final Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.

India brushed off the absence of captain Jasprit Bumrah to dismiss Australia for 181 and reach 141 for six for an overall lead of 145 on an extraordinary second day of the finely-balanced fifth test on Saturday.

The captain of the Indian cricket team is sitting out of a crucial Test match for the first time ever in the middle of an ongoing series as defeats in Australia beckon generational change in the country’s most popular and richest sport.

Admitting his form slump, India captain Rohit Sharma took a bold call and decided to drop himself from the fifth and final Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). Rohit Sharma's call to opt out of Sydney Test,

Indian test skipper Rohit Sharma said sitting out the final match of the series against Australia due to poor form does not mean he will retire, adding that critics will not decide when he should walk away from the sport.