India offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin routed Australia last year and is unfazed by the challenge of being asked to do it again on less-friendly pitches.

Ashwin was a crucial part of Australia’s 4-0 Test series loss in India, claiming 29 wickets at an average of 20.10.

The 28-year-old sat out India’s final tour game, but is expected to be part of their attack when the rescheduled first Test starts in Adelaide on Tuesday.

Adelaide Oval’s drop-in pitch is expected to offer limited turn, and Ashwin can expect more of the same in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

Ashwin knows as much, having toured Australia in 2011-12, but is not alarmed.

“I don’t buy into the notion that you have to go to a place two (or) three times before you can succeed there,” Ashwin told the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s website.

“Even if you put me on a new planet, I am firmly going to believe that I can pick wickets.

“That mindset is in my DNA and it will not change.

“If you are faced with certain conditions, respect them and just land the ball where the conditions demand.”

India are widely tipped to fail in their search for a maiden Test series win in Australia.

Ashwin admitted a Test triumph in Australia would “be the biggest landmark of our careers”, but added that the visitors were not short of belief.

“I don’t know what people think about this team, but I do know that we can do this,” he said.

Discussing his own bowling, Ashwin suggested he was always tweaking his action and predicted his best years will start now.

Ashwin also expressed a desire to emulate Shane Warne’s approach to cricket.

“He is the kind of cricketer I would love to be. … the one who fiercely competes,” he said.

“The one who gets head on with what he believes and doesn’t worry about the consequences.

“If you say that Shane Warne is not an over-thinking cricketer, then nobody else is either.”