Pace duo Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood have emerged as Australia's trump cards in the second Test with reverse swing looming as the visitors' major weapon to keep India's humbled batsmen on the canvas.
Unless India brazenly produce another raging turner, the quicks will be tasked with the duty of spearheading Australia to a victory that ensures they retain the Border Gavaskar Trophy.
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Starc gets Pujara and Kohli within three balls
Mitchell Starc picked up the the key wickets of Cheteshwar Pujara and Virat Kohli in the space of three balls to leave India teetering at 44/3.
The go-to men for captain Steve Smith during the home summer, Starc and Hazlewood, were reduced to bit-part players in Pune, bowling just 20 overs between them in the upset win. Mitchell Marsh's seamers were not required at all - but the pace brigade face a bigger workload this week.
As well as Steve O'Keefe and Nathan Lyon bowled in the series opener, they are set to be downgraded to support acts in Bangalore. India's spin duo of Ravi Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, however, have shown they do not need excessive assistance from the pitch to win games, taking 54 of 93 wickets during the series against England.
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The different conditions present another challenge for Australia but one they have factored into their meticulous preparations for the series.
They will need to get it right or risk Virat Kohli and his band of flat-track bullies blazing massive scores on featherbeds like they did when they wore down England 4-0.
Starc, with his ability to bowl regularly in the high 140s, proved in Sri Lanka he can star on the slow and flat wickets of the subcontinent and be a game-breaker on any surface.
"You have to these days. Conditions are so different around the world. We know they're not going to be fast or bouncy wickets. Fast bowlers have to find a way to get wickets. For me it's trying to use that air speed, get that ball reversing," Starc said.
"The Sri Lankan series is a blueprint for the way I want to bowl here - in terms of using my air speed, really exploiting that reverse swing to batsmen because if you're moving it off the straight it makes it hard no matter where you're batting, home or away.
"That's something Josh has really improved at over the last 12-18 months - he's a great exponent of it now, that's something we can continue working off as a fast-bowling pair."
Starc said Australia needed to improve their management of the ball to have the SG balls in the right state for their quicks to work the dark arts of reverse swing. Stand by for plenty of throws on the bounce into the keeper to hasten deterioration.
"There is probably going to be a couple of wickets on the square as well. When the ball gets into that off the bat it's going to create some rough sides on that ball so it's about looking after that shiny [side] for us," Starc said.
"And if it's not going to spin as much in Bangalore, we're going to have to make sure we're using that reverse swing to make up for not as much spin as we've seen here in Pune."
If Australia are to preserve or even extend their lead, they will need to bat big in the first innings. By big that's not scores of 400 but totals well in excess of 500 to safeguard against being spun out on days four or five by Ashwin and Jadeja - as England were.
"If we can do that as a batting unit it's going to leave us in great stead," Starc said. "We really feel like we can take 20 wickets whether it be with the reversing ball or, as we've seen this week, with spin."