Today will be the first time since 2005 that India will play an ODI against Australia without MS Dhoni in the XI. He featured in all the previous 54 India-Australia ODIs.
The last IND-AUS ODI in the absence of Dhoni was during the 2004 Tri-series in the Netherlands.
Australia have a good record in ODIs in Mohali, winning five out of the six matches they played here, including all four since 1997.
- If Virat Kohli scores a century in the fourth ODI, he will become the first player to score three successive hundreds in ODIs on two separate occasions.
- Shikhar Dhawan has now played 17 consecutive innings since his last ODI hundred - the joint longest for him. He endured a similar lean patch between December 2013 and October 2014 without a three-figure score.
Today will be the first time since 2005 that India will play an ODI against Australia without MS Dhoni in the XI. He featured in all the previous 54 India-Australia ODIs.
The last IND-AUS ODI in the absence of Dhoni was during the 2004 Tri-series in the Netherlands.