Williams was left out of the starting eleven to make way for Test debutant left-armer Nathan Bracken at the Gabba, and made his feelings known, but it is the 18-Test campaigner Andy Bichel and not Bracken who is feeling the selection heat.

Bichel, a wholehearted performer for Australia, did not handle the conditions of his home pitch and went for 1-130 off 28 overs in India's first innings.

Williams has genuine pace and claimed four wickets in his only Test appearance against Zimbabwe in Sydney last October. He was summoned to Adelaide on Wednesday to be ready for match-eve practice at the ground on Thursday.

India dispelled a few conceptions in Brisbane, largely handling the bouncy green Gabba pitch and taking a psychological 86-run innings lead over the vaunted Australians playing on a wicket that was tailor-made for Steve Waugh's men.

Yet Saurav Ganguly broke through for his maiden Test century against Australia with a spirited 144 in India's 409 off 120.1 overs and Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid showed enough to suggest that they will trouble the weakened Australians in the remaining three Tests.

Sachin Tendulkar is expected to blast back here after his controversial leg before wicket decision for a deflating duck in Brisbane.

Australia's bowling clearly missed the authority of injured pace pair Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee and along with the drug suspension of Shane Warne, cricket-watchers here are getting a glimpse of what things may be like a few years down the track.

Skipper Ganguly was pleased with the positives that came out of the Gabba draw, but has urged his side to continue to seek improvement against the world's best cricket team.

Ganguly was largely thinking of 151-Test wicket-taker Harbhajan Singh when demanding more from his bowlers.

The turbaned finger-spinner was largely an anonymous figure in the Gabba Test taking 0-68 and 1-101.

A standout for the tourists was left-arm strike bowler Zaheer Khan, who captured 5-95 in Australia's first innings, although he is being troubled by a stiff hamstring leading up to the Adelaide Test.

Waugh was fuming over the media treatment of his bizarre first innings when he ran out partner Damien Martyn and then two balls later was out for a duck, hit wicket, when his back leg dislodged a bail.

Waugh claimed the first Test finished 50-50, and batting-wise Australia performed well Justin Langer hit 121, Matthew Hayden 99, Ricky Ponting two half-centuries, Martyn a second-innings 66 not out and Waugh chimed in with an unbeaten 56 second time around.

The Australians have never lost to India in Adelaide five wins and two draws and their last defeat here was against England, captained by Michael Atherton, in 1994-95.