Newly appointed coach of Indian team Greg Chappell [Images] said India would evolve a series-specific and country-specific strategy in a focused and consistent manner to be successful.

Chappell, who arrived in Bangalore on Wednesday to formally take charge, told reporters that the team would define important issues to concentrate and work on.

"That [the strategy] will change from day-to-day, series-to-series and country-to country," he said on Thursday.

"Each country has different wickets, different methods to the game to be successful. In some countries, fast bowlers are the best weapon; in some other countries, spinners are the best weapon," Chappell elaborated.

Chappell indicated that he would not try to replicate the "hardball aggressive" tactics that the Australian team adopts on the field.

"Every country and every culture is different. Every country has different personalities; each individual is a different personality," he said.

"You can't transplant one format that works in one country in another country and expect it to work exactly the same," Chappell, a former Australian captain, said.

"Each country has to come up with its own right system," he added.

He stressed that to be successful, one has to be focused and persistent and be able to keep applying basics better and longer than the opposition.

As Chappell stressed on the need for the Indian team to focus, one journalist asked him whether the side had earlier lacked it.

"Don't put words in my mouth," Chappell said.

"For the future, we need to be focused if we need to be successful. If we need to be a successful team, we need to focus on things that are important; and not on things that are unimportant."

Photograph: Jewella Miranda