Inexperience no handicap, Lee warns India

JAIPUR (AFP) - Paceman Brett Lee said on Tuesday ahead of the upcoming Test series that Australia would not be intimidated in cricket-mad India despite the lack of experience in the touring squad.

Skipper Ricky Ponting and batsmen Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke and Simon Katich are the only players in the 15-man squad to have played a Test in India before.

But Lee, who missed the previous tour of India in 2004 due to injury, believes the four-Test series starting on October 9 is the perfect platform for the world champions' younger players to announce their arrival.

"Yeah, we've lost the likes of Glenn (McGrath), Shane Warne, Damien Martyn, Justin Langer and Adam Gilchrist, but it's a new era for Australian cricket," Lee told reporters at the team's training camp here.