With Australia down 1-0 in a home series for the first time in 10 years, captain Steve Waugh admitted his team had "to do some things a little differently" if they wanted to avoid losing the four-match series.

He said the main thing his players had to do was take their catches.

In Adelaide, Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist dropped key catches off dynamic pair VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid respectively which could have changed the course of the game.

Indian captain Saurav Ganguly said his side would try to repeat the formula which led to a dominant performance in the drawn Brisbane Test and a four-wicket victory in Adelaide.

"I think you have to look at the past," Ganguly said when asked how India would deal with the pressure of leading the series.

"We need to look at the Brisbane Test, look at the Adelaide Test, look at what we did before the game, what we did in the meetings, what we did in the game let's stick to that, let's not do anything special or different.

"There's no point in adding other things to increase pressure, we have to stick with what we did in Adelaide and Brisbane, how we woke up in the morning, what we did in the lead-up to the game, how we batted, how we bowled."