Wicketkeeper Alex Carey has urged the Australia batters to find a balance between being proactive and patient ahead of the second Test against India, which begins in New Delhi on Friday.
It must be noted that spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja eviscerated Australia in just over two hours to hand India a crushing innings-and-132-run victory Saturday inside three days of the opening Test.
The hosts took a commanding first-innings lead of 223 in Nagpur, then skittled out Australia for 91 in an extended second session to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.
"You can fall into over-playing conditions and certain names. What you see before you go out to bat as well can change your method a bit," Carey told reporters.
Carey was twice sent packing while playing the reverse sweep and said he had hit the nets looking to return to the basics.
"I went back to batting more than anything else and reacting to what's being bowled at me and trusting that method. Maybe I was a bit too keen to play a different style, but in my first test here that's not a bad learning to have," he said.
"Hopefully, I can find that balance along with all our players. We obviously want to be proactive, but calm and patient as well, and we had a pretty good look at that first-hand with a few of their players.
"At times it might be fast-forward mode but Jadeja and Axar showed as well, you can be pretty patient."
Carey also backed Australia to make a comeback in the series.
"We're a strong Test team," he said. "We've got all bases covered. Unfortunately, it didn't go to plan this first Test, but we're reinforcing the messages we've had leading into the tour."
Squads
Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith (vc), Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner
India squad: (for the first two Tests) Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul (vc), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KS Bharat, Ishan Kishan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav