Virat Kohli is thrilled with the green-tinged pitch that has been produced for the maiden Test at Optus Stadium, backing a pace attack widely considered India's best ever to rattle Australia.
Kohli's team hold a 1-0 lead in the four-match series and will retain the Border-Gavaskar trophy if they defeat the hosts in the Perth Test that starts on Friday.
"I was pretty happy to see the pitch the way it is," Kohli told reporters.
"I hope no more grass is taken off the pitch. Because that will mean the first three days will be very lively and we as a team are pretty happy with that.
"This pitch is going to offer significantly more to the bowlers than Adelaide. That's something we're very excited about.
"It's fast ... we're not alien to pitches like this. We've played on these kind of wickets in the past, it's nothing new to us."
Kohli's wish is set to be granted with curator Brett Sipthorpe unlikely to trim the deck that he hopes will offer similar pace and bounce to what the WACA did in its glory days.
Tim Paine, asked about the green surface, suggested it may be a case where looks are deceiving.
"It feels pretty firm underneath. I think it'll actually play pretty well for the first couple of days," Paine said.
"I really don't think it'll play that badly. I've played an ODI here and a Twenty20, and both of those wickets looked really green .. and played really well.
"This wicket might play really well."
Paine also shot down the idea that any surface could help the touring fast bowlers more than Australia's quicks.
"We've got a really settled and experienced attack," he said.
"They know what works in Test cricket. They've done it before, played on all types of surfaces and adapted really quickly.
"With the heat that's around in the next few days it's probably going to break up and you'll see some cracks in it late in the game."
Sipthorpe hoped the surface would be "very much like the old WACA".
"That's what we want to see," Sipthorpe said.
"We've just been told make it fast, make it bouncy, if you can.
"We're just trying to produce the bounciest pitch we can."
Cricket Australia suggested Sipthorpe had been given freedom to produce the best possible pitch, denying the idea that any form of request had been made.
