Former Australia skipper Adam Gilchrist wants Australia to keep faith in their pace attack in their upcoming Test series in India and not play more than one spinner in the XI.

Gilchrist is confident the Pat Cummins-led side will be able to win the Border-Gavaskar series in India after 19 years if they go in with three seamers to partner spinner Nathan Lyon.

The former wicketkeeper-batter was Australia’sstand-in skipper during the 2004 series win — the only one they pocketed in India since 1969.

“I think they’ll do it (win the series). I think they’ve got a squad and final XI that will have a lot of similarities to the team we rolled with in 2004,” Gilchrist was quoted as saying by Fox Sports on Tuesday.

“So often teams go to India hoping to unveil some new spinner that’s going to come in and bedazzle in India — it doesn’t really happen.

“Pick your best four bowlers, run with them — and if that is three seamers whocan all get really nice reverseswing and Nathan Lyon, who’sclearly the best off-spinnerwe’ve ever had, can play his role — that’s my gut feeling.”

Australia currently finds themselves in a tricky situation with two of their first choice seamers — left-armerMitchell Starc and all-rounder Cameron Green — nursing injuries. If Green plays, Gilchrist thinks Australia might consider the idea of picking an extra spinner.

Written with inputs from PTI