Australia have some serious issues in need of urgent attention ahead of the World T20 in   March.
In beating the hosts by 37 runsin Adelaide last night, India exposed Australia's deficiencies in all three facets of the short form game.
So what's new, you say? Australia are No 1 in ODIs, likely to soon be No 1 in Tests but are yet to raise the World T20 trophy and don't look like doing so any time soon. 
Last night the bowling lacked penetration, the fielding was ragged, and the batting, well, despite flashes from Aaron Finch (44 from 33 balls) it failed to match the hype.
The new guard of Travis Head (2) and Chris Lynn (17) failed to fire, increasing the chances that they will be the ones to make way for Usman Khawaja and George Bailey in the World T20 squad.
But there were some diamonds in the rough. By being by far Australia's best bowler, Shane Watson has surely booked a place in the 15-man touring party.
India were far too good last night but the series is - for both sides - as much about trialling players ahead of the World T20 as it is about winning the three matches.
The selectors have surely moved Watson's name from the 'possibles' list to 'probables' after last night's effort with the ball.
Some of the 44,745 crowd might have booed one of our most maligned cricketers but they were soon cheering when he dismissed the rampant Rohit Sharma with his first ball back in Australian colours. Watson then tricked Shikhar Dhawan with a crafty shorter, slower, wider ball that the left-hander tried to ramp - but the ball made it only as far as Matthew Wade's gloves.
After two overs Watson had 2-5. That blew out to 2-24 after some rough late treatment from Virat Kohli (90 not out from 55 balls) but he suffered less in that department than Kane Richardson (0-41) and Shaun Tait (0-45).
Tait was very unfortunate in that he might have had Sharma for four in the first over had Richardson not adopted the modern method of creeping in from the boundary at fine leg.
Richardson still might not have been able to grasp it had he been on the rope - it was a line-ball call. But he gave himself almost no chance given how far he had to back-pedal.
That the ball spilt out of Richardson's hands and over the rope for six was hard cheese for Tait.
The recalled quick responded well, hooping scything outswingers past Sharma's searching blade.
The fine-leg trap nearly worked in Tait's next over when a flatter Sharma hook bounced in front of the diving Richardson - and over the fieldsman to the boundary.
Tait might have been fast and moved the ball but he ended with a duck egg in the wickets column. Australia's fielding needs to improve on last night if they are to contend in India.
Locked in a three-way battle with Nathan Lyon and Adam Zampa for possibly two spinning berths, Cameron Boyce would not have helped his chances by making a mess of a ball skied by Sharma to backward point. Defending 188, India started well in the field; well, that is until the eighth over, bowled by debutant Hardik Pandya.
The poor fellow could not find his range and 11 balls later he had the figures of 0-19 (five wides).
Still, the tourists soon had Finch, Steve Smith and Head in rapid succession to wrest back the initiative and from there the home batsmen collapsed to be all out for 151 in the last over.
No sporting spectacle at the rebuilt Adelaide Oval has matched the colour and pageantry of India versus Pakistan match in last year's World Cup, but last night certainly made the shortlist.
The Swami Army filled the bays below the Gavin Wanganeen Stand. The Indian cheer squad bought 2500 tickets to spearhead an Indian invasion on Republic Day. The ground is used to being bathed in blue but last night it was Indian rather than Strikers blue.
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