A fruitless fourth Test on a docile Ahmedabad wicket could offer Australia a glimpse of how to handle India's attack in their World Test Championship title bout.
Australia are expecting significantly different conditions at The Oval on Wednesday to the ones that greeted them in India earlier this year.
But Pat Cummins' men are insistent they can take some lessons from that 2-1 series loss on the subcontinent.
While the first three matches of that series were played on big turners and decided in two-and-a-half days, the fourth was on a slow wicket and ended in a draw.
Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green posted centuries in that Test, while Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne each scored more than 50 in the second innings.
Australia were able to take a more conservative approach in their slowest-scoring Test of the tour.
Crucially, it also gave the visitors a close look at Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja on a flatter pitch, during a series in which India's spinners took 40 of the 51 Australian wickets that fell in the first three matches.
India are weighing up whether to play both spinners at The Oval, or leave out Ashwin and field a fourth quick in Shardul Thakur.
"You definitely learn from how you played them over there," Labuschagne said on Friday.
"We played on a pretty nice wicket the last Test. If there is a bit of spin and bounce (we can look at that).
"There will probably be a bit more bounce here in England than there was in India. That's just something to factor in, how they're going to bowl.
"Ashwin's tactics might change a little bit, Jadeja's might too. It's just adjusting to those on the fly out there on what they're going to try and do."
While the ensuing Ashes may be the most-hyped series in 16 years, Australia have set their eyes firmly on the World Test Championship decider.
After training in Kent, to the south of London, in recent days, the team will move to The Oval early next week.
Josh Hazlewood is back close to bowling at 100 per cent, with selectors to weigh up whether to play him or Scott Boland as the third seamer against India.
Australia are adamant they can match it with the world's No.1-ranked Test team, despite losing the past four Border-Gavaskar trophies to them.
The team will stress the importance of not panicking, after conceding a poor session in the first and second Tests in March cost them the most recent series.
"It was disappointing not to win the series (in India)," Labuschagne said.
"But we competed very well. We had a couple of bad sessions that probably cost us potentially winning the series. That session in (the second Test) in Delhi.
"We were very close. That changes the whole dynamic. You go 1-1, and we go one up potentially in (the third Test at) Indore.
"You never know what happens with that last game if they needed a victory."
