India's spin trio of R Ashwin (right), Ravindra Jadeja (centre) and Amit Mishra during training in Vizag yesterday. Pic/AFP

Visakhapatnam: When you are up against a team that bats right down to No. 11 and has as many as six regular bowlers to boot, regardless of the experience or lack of it within that set, you must expect to have a proper fight on your hands. And that's what the Indians, who indeed started the five-Test series as firm favourites, got at Rajkot in the opening Test last week.