Double centurion Michael Clarke confirmed Australia will be affording India's legendary Sachin Tendulkar no charity as the Little Master seeks his personal Holy Grail, his 100th international century when play resumes on Thursday morning in the fourth Test at Adelaide Oval.
Tendulkar (12 not out) survived the final 43 minutes of the second day with Gautam Gambhir (30 not out) as India reached 2-61 in reply to Australia's massive 7-604 declared.
Watchfully scoring just a single run off his last 28 deliveries faced, Tendulkar clearly steeled himself to be there at stumps before cashing in on day three.
Not that Clarke will be lending him a helping hand.
"I certainly won't be showing him any sympathy," he said. "We're there to win the game - we're there to try and take 20 wickets."
"He's a wonderful player as I've said before and he's going to be really tough to get out on that wicket. Somehow we're going to have to find a way to do it twice."
Clarke, who stroked a magnificent 210 in just over three sessions, is well-qualified to discuss the state of the Adelaide deck, which has proved a dream for batting over the past two days, with very little in the way of sideways movement or turn for the spinners.
"There was hardly any turn to be honest, from both spinners (India's R Ashwin and Australia's Nathan Lyon)," Clarke said.
"The wicket's very flat out there ... it's not offering much for the bowlers, so discipline with our execution is going to be imperative tomorrow and over the next three days to try and take 20 wickets."
"To take those two crucial wickets today (Virender Sehwag for 18 and Rahul Dravid for one), is a really good start for us, but there's a lot of work still to be done."
Earlier, Clarke combined with Ricky Ponting (221) for a ground-breaking 386-run stand for the fourth wicket, which was the highest partnership in all Tests at Adelaide Oval and the best ever for any wicket in contests between these two sides.
It was also their second big partnership this series after they shared a 288-run union in the second Test at Sydney, during which Clarke made his miracle 329 not out.
"It's always nice to see us scoring runs and batting together," Clarke said. "We've known each other for a long time, played a lot of cricket together and it's nice to spend some time in the middle with him."
"Both of us were disappointed with our series last summer (against England) and we've worked hard on our games to improve."
"We know each other's games quite well. We can communicate to what we're seeing and if we feel like we can help."
"That's the one thing we've done for a long time - we speak a lot when we bat about what the other person's seeing, to get help and advice and to keep both of us going."
Clarke's purple patch of form has seen him enter the record books often recently.
He has scored 589 runs this series and with his double ton today, he joined an exclusive group of cricketers to have registered a triple century and a double ton in the same series.
The only two players to have achieved this feat are Australian legend Sir Donald Bradman (twice, against England in 1930 and 1934) and England great Wally Hammond (against