Steve Smith's Australian side fly to Chandigarh on Tuesday, a city seared into the memory for what occurred there three years ago.
Four players stood down for not completing their "homework". Days later the Test series was lost at the stadium in Mohali, a few suburbs away in the Punjab capital. 
Over the next five days Australia have two games at the ground, against Pakistan and then India, that will shape their World Twenty20 ambitions following Monday night's Group B meeting with Bangladesh.
On what will inevitably be a made-to-order bunsen burner of a track it will be no easy task. Nor will their visit to these parts this time next year when, for all respect to a thrilling T20 championship, Smith's Test side - ranked No.1 at present - will, as coaches like to say, get to properly see where they are at.
The Australian captain and his team will be judged greatly on whether they can win in England next time around, in 2019, but in terms of legacy building there is probably nothing more prized than a Test series victory in India. Australia have managed it only once in 46 years. Pat Howard, Cricket Australia's team performance chief, agrees that three years on from the last disastrous series they will be better prepared. "I'd say so but it's not bulletproof," Howard said. "And you know that when you come here it's always a great challenge. South Africa saw that coming here as the No.1 side [last year] and we're going to face the same challenges. We know we're going to have to genuinely adapt. We don't have a full six months to do that, we're going to have a good two weeks ... we're going to have to adapt on the run."
The obstacles here are multi-layered, from heat, to illness and logistics. The Australians' departure through the winding, narrow roads of moutainside Dharamsala at the weekend was delayed by an almighty hailstorm. The suggestion is there will be a Test in next year's series at the venue with the postcard backdrop but it is the conditions inside the rope, not emanating from the sky, that Howard is focused on ensuring Australia are ready for. Much has changed since Mohali in 2013 - Mickey Arthur and Michael Clarke are gone, for starters, and Shane Watson won't be back either - but the assignment of winning in India remains similarly steep. "I think from an Australian public perception everyone wants the Ashes but in terms of a cricket challenge we've won six of our last nine Tests away but we still know coming to the subcontinent is a massive challenge," Howard said.