Australia began their tour to India with a four-day training camp in Bangalore on Thursday.
Vice-captain Steve Smith had said the team chose to have training sessions instead of playing a practice match as the only tour game in their previous tour was played on a "green top", which did not help the squad prepare for the kind of pitches they went on to face.
The 4-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy starts with the 1st Test from February 9 in Nagpur. Australia last won a Test series in India nearly twenty years ago.
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