“We normally have two tour games over in England. This time we don’t have a tour game in India,” Smith stated on the Sydney airport earlier than the crew’s departure for India. “The last time we went [to India], I’m pretty sure we got served up a green top [in the tour game], and it was sort of irrelevant.

“Hopefully, we get actually good coaching amenities the place the ball is prone to do what it is prone to do out within the center, and we are able to get our follow in.”

Australia will arrive in Bengaluru, the place they’ll prepare for 5 days earlier than heading to Nagpur for the primary Test, beginning February 9.

“There’s been assurances given [about pitches in Bengaluru]. We’ll get there and most groundstaff around the world are pretty good at allowing us to get what we want. We’ll wait and see.”

Steven Smith: ‘Better off having our personal nets’

In the Test sequence, Smith went on to attain 499 runs – essentially the most from both facet – together with three centuries, however India got here from behind to win the sequence 2-1.

“We’ll wait and see when we hit the ground. I think we’ve made the right decision to not play a tour match,” Smith, who was not part of the camp in Sydney as he was concerned within the BBL with Sydney Sixers, stated. “We’re better off having our own nets and getting spinners in and bowling as much as they can.”