Sourav Ganguly believes that Sachin Tendulkar needs to consider whether his intermittent presence in India's one-day side is good for him or the team.

Tendulkar has struggled in the tri-series in Australia, averaging 18 in five innings so far. But of equal concern to Ganguly is the effect of Tendulkar's yo-yoing on those around him.

Ganguly told the Indian news channel Headlines Today: "Sachin has to ask himself whether he is good enough to play one-day cricket day in and day out, whether it's helping him missing tournaments and playing a one-day series after eight-nine months, whether it's helping him as a one-day player or if it's helping the Indian one-day team.

"If Sachin can't get an answer to these questions, he has to go."

After the World Cup final in April last year, Tendulkar did not play another one-day international until the current series began, and Ganguly believes this is unsettling those around him.

"It affects everyone's form if Tendulkar keeps coming in and going out of one-day tournaments," Ganguly said.

"I said after the World Cup that Sachin needs to look at his one-day career because he has achieved everything in one-day cricket."

Ganguly said that the selectors were unlikely to ask Tendulkar to step aside, which effectively left it up to Tendulkar to make a decision.

However another former India captain, Sunil Gavaskar, held another view.

"I think [Kris] Srikkanth can do it. He was Tendulkar's first captain," Gavaskar told NDTV.

"Tendulkar made his debut under him and today Srikkanth is the chairman of selectors. If his selection committee feels Sachin has no one-day future, then Srikkanth is just the right man to tell Sachin that."