Both miss Saturday's third Test in Johannesburg and Burger the first three Tests of the Tri-Nations.
However, he made a poor start to the Test series by aggregating only 45 runs in the first three Tests, which included two ducks.
He has reached double figures in seven of those eight innings but passed 50 only once, in the first innings of the last Test at Durham where, after opening the batting in the first three Tests, he came in at No6.
But the frustrations of the first three Tests are not easily forgotten.
"All his discipline of the first three tests disappeared - out to two dreadful shots in this match".
Sixteen wickets have come in the first three Tests, many of them when Australia most needed a breakthrough.
He is the only Australian to have scored 100 or more in an innings during the first three tests.
And they didn't just win it either, they verily rubbed England's noses in it, clinching the series with victories in the first three Tests.
Now Australia has a chance to sweep India, too, having won the first three tests in their series, with the fourth beginning Tuesday in Adelaide.
Nathan Lyon, just shading Billy Bowden for the title of daggiest man on the field this series, found the grip and flight that had eluded him for the first three Tests.
When it mattered Younis Khan, after frustration in the first three Tests, delivered in style, while Yasir Shah had the strength of character and skill to bounce back after maulings in Manchester and Birmingham.
