MUMBAI, (Reuters) – All-rounder Shane Watson and fast  bowler Mitchell Johnson will skip Australia’s final one-day  international against India today and head home instead.

World champions Australia clinched the seven-match series on  Sunday by taking a 4-2 lead with a six-wicket win.
Cricket Australia said in a statement yesterday that  Johnson and Watson were leaving India as they “continue to have  their workload managed ahead of the upcoming Australian summer  and the tour of New Zealand in March”.

Watson was Australia’s third highest scorer with 256 runs  and also claimed 10 wickets in six games, while Johnson took  nine wickets from five games to help propel the tourists to  victory after five players returned home with injuries.

Chief selector Andrew Hilditch said the pair had shouldered  a heavy workload since the ICC World Twenty20 in May 2009 and  would return home to prepare for the test series with West  Indies starting on Nov. 26 and the programme that follows.

Australia will play six tests in eight weeks plus one-day  international and Twenty20 series against West Indies and  Pakistan before touring New Zealand next year.