Ashes 2013-14: Michael Clarke insists he will be fit for second Test despite missing training Australia appear ready to select the same 11 in Adelaide from the victorious Brisbane Test, the first time they have selected the same side in two consecutive matches for more than a year. James Faulkner has challenged George Bailey for a spot in the side and will play a part at some point in the series with Australia keen on his allround talents. But dropping Bailey after one Test would be harsh and the fact he spent a long time practising his short leg fielding today was a sign he is set to stay in the side. Clarke took the opportunity to have a long look at the Adelaide Oval pitch while his team-mates were netting. The drop in pitch is new and a necessity because the rebuilt stadium will be the home next year for two Aussie Rules franchises, Adelaide Crows and Port Adelaide. Ticket revenue form their matches will pay for the £250m refit overseen by Keith Bradshaw, the former chief executive of the MCC who now fills a similar role for South Australia Cricket Association. Damian Hough, the groundsman, insisted yesterday the pitch will share the same characteristics of the traditional Adelaide Oval surfaces of the past. It will not have the pace and bounce of the Gabba but will retain its old Adelaide characteristics with the same Santa Ana couch grass used as before. Despite its reputation as a batsman's dream surface, Adelaide normally produces results with 18 of the last 22 Tests ending positively. The bounce will be slower and lower bringing lbw and bowled into the equation more than at the Gabba and Perth, the venue for the third Test next week. That is good news for English batsmen bombed in Brisbane by Mitchell Johnson but it also raises the prospect of decision review system controversy after the officials had a quiet time at the Gabba. Watson has worked hard to try and change his technique but there were signs in Brisbane of him still planting his front foot and playing around his pad. "The conditions are going to be a little bit more like English conditions with the bounce in the wicket, but that's why I've been working extremely hard every day I've been training to be able to give myself the best chance of getting over that problem," said Watson, who was ridiculed in England for his failed attempts to have lbw decisions overturned. It doesn't mean it's totally gone but I'm doing everything I can to try to limit that mode of dismissal. If I'm able to limit the ball from getting me out then I have more chance to bat for longer periods of time. Watson has bowled closer to full capacity in the nets at the Adelaide Oval over the past two days in comparison to before the first Test when he barely ran in to deliver the ball. He only bowled two overs in Brisbane such was Australia's dominance and that has given him more time to recover. "The wicket will be flat and the bowlers will potentially have to bowl many more overs compared to Brisbane to bowl the English out," said Watson. We certainly know we've got the bowlers to be able to exploit that Perth wicket, so I know how important it is for me to pick up the slack here. The bowlers certainly looked after me physically in the first Test, they bowled beautifully well and I wasn't really called on to bowl, but I know this is my turn to be able to put my hand up and bowl the overs to look after those guys as well.