After a disappointing loss to South Africa on home soil late last year, confidence in the national side has been somewhat restored after a recent series win over Pakistan.

Next up in terms of test cricket is a tour of India, a country where Australia has only won one series since 1969.

“I think they are going to have an incredibly hard time in India. An incredibly hard time,” Dyson said while at Dubbo on Wednesday.

“India is an excellent team, they have some fantastic players.”

Dyson was at Dubbo as part of the Shaun Brown Cricket Coaching camp tour, working alongside other coaches to help develop the skills of a huge number of local juniors on both Wednesday and Thursday.

The man who played 30 tests for his country and scored two centuries in the baggy green said spin bowling shapes as the deciding factor in the upcoming series in the subcontinent.

“India has just had a series against England and England went in with the idea that they could have four pace bowlers and they got whacked,” he said.

“The pace bowlers have got to bowl well but our spinners are going to be tested to the extreme and I think that’s where we might see the difference between the two teams.”

One of the big things Dyson spoke about while at Dubbo was the need for young cricketers to play their own game and work their own style from basic cricket skills.

The former Sri Lanka and West Indies coach pointed to the likes of Steve Smith and Peter Handscomb as players who succeed despite not playing with what some would call a ‘textbook technique’ and he said Indian run machine Virat Kohli also fits in that category.

“There’s a guy that isn’t our of the totally correct textbook but my word, what a player,” he said. “If we see him in action throughout this upcoming series and get a chance to see the way he bats, as he has in the past, he is a fantastic player.”