Competent and controlled centuries to George Bailey and Steve Smith helped Australia post a record run chase in their one-day international victory over India last night and papered over concerns about the side's bowling.
When Indian batsmen handle Australian quicks with ease at the WACA Ground it suggests a number of things, but the most worrying factor and the one that can be controlled is the performance of the pacemen.
The Perth wicket was disappointing for the Test match against New Zealand and no different for the first of the five one-dayers. Cricket has heard for years now that the WACA's pace and bounce would be coming back, and at times it seemed that were so, but perhaps it is a dead cat and it is time to accept that. This cat is on the mat. 
Batting first, India posted 3-309 at a canter. History suggested it was enough. The previous highest chase at the ground was 274 but the game is changing and the Australians eased passed that total in the last over of the day.
Bailey (112 from 120 balls) was lucky not to be given out first ball, but after that point he and Smith (149 from 135 balls) were never -really troubled.
The first ball to Bailey deflected off his gloves and went through to wicketkeeper MS Dhoni. Australia would have been 3-21 if the decision were given but, as the batsman observed later, it was not his side that objected to the DRS.
Neither Australian batsman appeared to work up a sweat and if Australia have a bowling problem, India have a greater one, fielding two spinners and being forced to rely on part-timers to pad out middle overs was a high-risk strategy and one that didn't turn out.
Ravi Jadeja and Ravi Ashwin were expensive and without threat and only debutant Barinder Sran, who took 3-56, gave the home side any trouble. Leaving veteran Ishant Sharma out of the side was hard to understand, especially at the ground where he announced himself against Ricky Ponting.
Indian batsmen are now more accomplished on bouncing tracks than they once were - or were given credit for. Perth, in fact, has often been a happy hunting ground for the more accomplished. Sunil Gavaskar and Mohinder Armanath hit centuries there in the 1977 Test and Sachin Tendulkar did the same as a teenager on his first tour 14 years later.
Yesterday Rohit Sharma, who is no slouch, became the first Indian to score a century in an ODI at the WACA, but he wasn't finished there, powering on to hit 171 not out off 163 balls - seven runs short of David Warner's 178, which is the highest score on the ground.
He and Virat Kohli (91) put on 207 runs for the second wicket off 219 balls before captain Dhoni moved up the order to provide a bit of extra wallop at the back end of the innings.
The quality of wickets and Indians are not the Australian team's concern but the quality of its pace attack is, and they have a few issues. Not one of the bowlers yesterday pushed past the 140km/h mark or bowled with any menace.
Starc, the best short-form bowler in the world, is injured but will return. Mitchell Johnson is gone and James Pattinson has been given time to recuperate after playing three Tests on return from injury. Peter Siddle is injured, but wasn't considered good enough to be part of the Victorian one-day team at the start of the summer.
The injured Nathan Coulter-Nile is another who is unlucky to be out of the game at a period when he would almost certainly be pushing for a place in the team.
In the 50th over of yesterday's game, Scott Boland bowled an attempted yorker which Rohit Sharma attempted to sweep. The ball hit the top edge of the bat and didn't hit the ground until it fell a few inches inside the boundary rope behind the wicketkeeper. It wasn't a bad ball and it definitely wasn't a good shot. "He (Rohit) is a hell of a player, it's not much fun when he is in that nick, it was a classy innings," James Faulkner said after the innings.
With the bowling stocks thin, selectors opted to give an opportunity to young Joel Paris, a local with a good domestic first-class record, and Boland, who has been pressing for a Test place.Paris, 23, took the new ball with Josh Hazlewood and, while he wasn't humiliated, he did not have the best of times. After eight overs he was off with 0-53 next to his name. Boland, 26, paid the price of having to bowl when India were in a position of strength at the end of the game. He went for 30 from his last two overs and with that went any chance of respectability. He finished with 0-74 off 10 overs.