Australia skipper Steven Smith (arm outstretched) followed by head coach Darren Lehmann, media manager Kate Hutchison and a support staff member, walk to their Nariman Point hotel from the CCI, Churchgate after a press conference yesterday. Pic/SURESH KARKERA

Australia's Darren Lehmann is used to confronting tough challenges as a coach. After all, he's had the toughest initiation to coaching since being told to take over a disjointed team just a few days before an Ashes campaign in 2013.