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Move to change the fortunes of recent tours in sub-continent

[caption id="attachment_26398" align="alignnone" width="580"] The Australian team will prepare in Dubai ahead of test series in India next month.[/caption] Internet Desk: Cricket Australia is not leaving any stone unturned ahead of its tough tour to India next month. The Australian cricket team will be training at Dubai's state-of-the-art International Cricket Council (ICC) Academy in a bid to reverse its fortunes. The last time the two teams met in a test series in India was in 2013, when Australia suffered an ignominious 0-4 whitewash. The Test squad will train on pitches made from Pakistani soil at the state-of-the-art ICC Academy in Dubai in a bid to adapt to Asian conditions. The Aussies had a dismal tour to the sub-continent recently as they were humbled 0-3 against the Sri Lankans mid-last year. Sri Lankan curators prepared a green-tinged pitch for Australia's single tour match before providing traditional spin-friendly Asian strips in the home side's 3-0 series victory. "What they can do in Dubai is do a lot of different preparation with different types of pitches," Cricket Australia team performance boss Pat Howard told Fairfax Media. "The ICC has done a really good job where they'll have different pitches of the cities." Australia is yet to win a Test match on the sub-continent since 2001. Last time they won a series against India was in 2004. India, currently ranked number 1 test side in the world are coming off a undefeated series victory over England. Australia's team for Tuesday's final test in Sydney against Pakistan has been chosen with an eye on the four-Test India campaign and includes two spinners in Nathan Lyon and Steve O'Keefe. England enjoyed similar preparations in the Gulf state ahead of their landmark 2-1 series win in India in 2012, while the West Indies also spent time at the academy before winning the World Twenty20 championship in India last year. Australia will play two intra-squad matches in Dubai, with the numbers made up by young players from the Pakistan Super League T20 competition being held there at the same time, the reports said. The first Test begins in Pune on February 23.