Melbourne, December 25:

India are considering playing two spinners to capitalise on their batting depth to pressure Australia in Wednesday’s opening match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Skipper Anil Kumble said the team would be playing to their strengths and are contemplating using both spinners, himself and Harbhajan Singh.

India have been talking up their chances of inflicting their first series win in Australia and Australia’s first home series defeat in 14 years. To do that, Kumble said India would focus on their own strengths to bring off their pinnacle achievement against Australia in the four-Test series.

“I think the key to winning any Test match is to score runs and, if you have runs on the board, then any team can get under pressure,” he said. “That will be the thing, try and get runs so you can put pressure on the opposition.” The MCG wicket is expected to favour fast bowlers early, before it starts taking turn later in the Boxing Day Test match.