When Indian batsmen handle Australian quicks with ease at the WACA it suggests a number of things, but the most worrying 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-day internationals. Cricket has heard for years now that its 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. 
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 MS 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 is 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.
Mitchell 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.
Bowlers deserve some sympathy. They have been allowed another fielder out of the circle in the power plays, which has improved things somewhat since the days of the World Cup when 400-plus scores were peeled off on a weekly basis, but with the size of grounds, bats and forearms in the modern game, sometimes there seems to be nothing you can do to stop the run flow.
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.
The Indians thought 240 or 250 was a good total before play, but that was possibly a modest expectation.
"It was a bit similar to the Test match, a bit slower than what you expect in Perth, but I think we bowled well in patches and not so well in patches," Josh Hazlewood conceded.
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 was pressing for a Test place late in the summer.
Paris, 23, took the new ball with Josh Hazlewood and, while he wasn't humiliated, he did not have the best of times. What he has in bounce, he lacks in pace and the Indians pounced on anything too full or straight. After eight overs he was off with 0-53 next to his name.
Boland, 26, a renowned finisher, paid the price of having to bowl when India was 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.
Selectors are also concerned about Mitch Marsh's workloads after six Tests in the summer and have called in John Hastings to take his place for the second match. The allrounder struggled like his colleagues with the ball on the good batting wicket.Glenn Maxwell was allowed only three overs, which will have some looking more closely at a way to include Nathan Lyon in the team. Proof that fast bowling is a tough art was further advanced with Queensland's Billy Stanlake, 21, being diagnosed with stress fractures in the back yesterday.