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and keep the series alive by winning the remaining two Tests under the belt," Kumble said.

"Sure there is bounce and pace for the bowlers but we have the quality and experience. It does take some time to get used to this sort of pitch but it's more mental than in the middle," he said.

Kumble said the batting order would be altered to accommodate Sehwag in the team.

"Sehwag would come in. It would be a regular batting order, the quality of Rahul at number three again. It would mean shifting the batting order a bit but that's been for a long time," Kumble said.

Ricky Ponting said they have few plans to tackle the devastating Sehwag at the top of the order.

"We all in the last few weeks have thought about what they could do with their team. Sehwag is a very dangerous player, we have played against him and know what his strength and weaknesses are. We have plans to keep him under wraps.

"He probably would take a bit pressure off Dravid who could bat at number three."

Ponting who faced a lot of criticism for the team's conduct during the Sydney Test has promised to ensure that mistakes were not repeated.

"There has been lot of talk about the way the game was played and there was some truth to that, a lot of it was blown out of proportion.

"We had really a good talk as a team a couple of days ago, minor issues that we can brush up from the last Test.

Ponting said there was no bad blood between the two teams and the rest of the series will be played in true spirit.

"I can only go by the word of Anil who said there was not and I said the same thing," he said.

Teams:

Australia: Ricky Ponting (captain), Chris Rogers, Phil Jacques, Michael Clarke, Mike Hussey, Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson.

India: Anil Kumble (captain) Virender Sehwag, Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Dinesh Karthik, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk), Irfan Pathan, RP Singh and Ishant Sharma.

Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZ), Asad Rauf (Pak) Third umpire: Bruce Oxenford Match referee: Mike Procter