Jan 2. (CRICKETNMORE) - Australia team is looking to practice in Dubai as a preperation for their upcoming series against India starting in February 2017. Australia, who have not won a Test in India since 2004 are gearing up for the series. <\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the past, England enjoyed similar preparations in the Gulf state ahead of their landmark 2-1 series win in India in 2012, while the West Indies also spent time at the academy before winning the World Twenty20 championship in India last year.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The tour to face the world's number one side next month has been tagged the "closest thing to mission impossible" for <\/p>\r\n\r\n
The staging camp at Dubai's state-of-the-art International Cricket Council (ICC) Academy has been devised to help avoid a repeat of Australia's disastrous 2013 series in India where they lost all four Tests.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"India is not going to be the same everywhere," Cricket Australia's high performance general manager Pat Howard told Fairfax Media.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"What they can do in Dubai is do a lot of different preparation with different types of pitches."<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"The ICC have done a really good job where they'll have different pitches of the cities... so it's not just spin pitches, there are different types," said Pat Howard, Cricket Australia's high performance general manager .<\/p>\r\n\r\n
"We cannot copy what we are going to get. It's all about the mindset that we're going to adapt. We can't get practice against (Ravichandran) Ashwin and (Ravindra) Jadeja either."<\/p>\r\n\r\n