Shaw, who burst onto the international stage with a breathtaking hundred on Test debut against the West Indies earlier this year, was set to resume his role as an opener in Australia before he injured his ankle in India’s warm-up game for the series in Sydney.

Although there were hopes that he would return to the side for the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, it was confirmed today that Shaw will return to India to recover from the injury.

The uncapped Mayank Agarwal is being flown into Australia as Shaw’s replacement. Agarwal, an opener himself, has featured regularly for India ‘A’ this year and has an impressive career first-class average of 50.30.

Pandya took 7-102 across both innings with the ball while he hit a patient 73 in Baroda’s only innings. Pandya’s addition to the squad was seemingly confirmed by his domestic skipper Kedar Devdhar who told The Times of India that Pandya was “not available for our next game, as he’s going to Australia.”

The addition of Pandya was later confirmed by the BCCI.

This article was amended at 13:00 GMT to include the BCCI’s confirmation of the selection of Pandya.