There will be no mercy: Hastings

John Hastings has warned India there will be no mercy in the fifth and final Victoria Bitter ODI in Sydney on Saturday, the quick saying Australia are "desperate" to complete a 5-0 series sweep.

Australia's victory in Canberra on Wednesday, which came after Hastings sparked a late Indian collapse of 9-46 in just under an hour, extended their winning streak against the tourists to 11 matches across all formats.

India last tasted victory over the Aussies during the World T20 in Bangladesh almost two years ago, while the result at Manuka Oval extended Australia's ODI unbeaten streak at home to 19 matches.

And with a three-match T20 series against India starting on Tuesday, and the two nations grouped together for the World T20 in March and April, Hastings says the hosts are determined to hand India their first 5-0 series defeat in 27 years.

"We desperately want to win 5-0," the Victorian said in Sydney today.

"If you can get a little advantage over your opposition at home - there have been times when we've gone over to India and they've had the wood on us over there.

"So we're definitely looking to go 5-0, that's a massive priority for us."

Victory for Australia at the SCG would secure their fifth 5-0 series win in ODI cricket and their first since they swept the West Indies in the summer of 2012-13.

India, meanwhile, have been on the receiving end of a 5-0 series whitewash on just two occasions before, with the mighty West Indies sweeping them in both 1983 and 1989.

In addition to Australia's 19-game unbeaten run at home, which stretches back to November 2014, they have also won their past nine ODIs against India on Australian soil, their last defeat coming almost four years ago.

The drought looked like it would come to end on Wednesday night when a 212-run partnership between Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli put the tourists on track for victory in pursuit of Australia's 8-348.

But Hastings triggered the dramatic late collapse by removing Dhawan and captain MS Dhoni in the last of his 10 overs and the 30-year-old says the results in this series would be having an effect on the tourists.

"I think it has to start taking a toll, for sure," he said.

"I think the home series advantage when you get teams coming out here, we know Australia is a hard place to play and that's a good thing we've got going at the moment.

"We played a home World Cup, won that and now we're 4-0 up in this series as well. So we are playing some good cricket.

"There's certainly a lot of self-belief in the team at the moment.

"The way we're chasing totals down and the way we were in the field last night, you can see as soon as we get a sniff of victory we jump all over it."

One of the major hurdles for Australia to overcome on Saturday could be Sydney's unseasonable weather, with showers and storms forecast.

Cricket fans in the Harbour City have had no luck on the weather front in the past 12 months, with the bulk of this month's New Year's Test against the West Indies washed out while last summer's ODI against India at the SCG on Australia Day was also declared a no result after just 16 overs.