The flat, dry pitch in Adelaide was expected to challenge the durability of fast bowlers from both teams with only three recovery days between the second Test finishing today and the battle resuming on Friday.

But the fact that England's batsmen succumbed so meekly in the first innings in Adelaide, coupled with the short spells in which captain Michael Clarke rotated his quicks, led to a cautious clean bill of health being issued by the Australian brains trust immediately after play today.

However, while Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle and Mitchell Johnson appear to have pulled up well after their productive Adelaide stint, auxiliary quicks Nathan Coulter-Nile and Doug Bollinger will remain with the squad to cover all possible contingencies.

And left-arm seamer James Faulkner, 12th man in both the opening Tests, will also come into calculations should Australia lean towards their previously favoured option of playing four fast bowlers on the traditionally lively Perth pitch.

"I think when we get to Perth and, as we do every Test match, every player will be assessed by our medical staff and if they are fully fit and able to perform at 100 per cent they will be available for selection," Clarke said.

"The selectors will pick what they think is the best 11 - that (policy) hasn't changed for a long time.

"If guys aren't 100 per cent fit to perform and help the team win they won't be selected.

"(But) from the information I have now, everybody has pulled up fine - batters included."

Clarke was at pains to keep all options open following his team's 218-run in Adelaide which gave them a two-nil lead in the five-match series.

He talked up the contribution of off-spinner Nathan Lyon in Brisbane and Adelaide and refused to commit to playing four quicks at a ground where England has won just once in an Ashes Test – back in 1978 against an Australian team ravaged by World Series Cricket.

"It's obviously exciting that we're going to a ground that we feel so comfortable playing at, but in saying that I've also experienced some defeats in my career in Perth," Clarke said today.

"I don't think it matters the conditions that we play in as long if we continue to play the brand of cricket that we've played.

"I think we would have to see the wicket first but I think Nathan Lyon deserves a lot of credit for the job he's done in this series as well.

"There was a lot of talk before the Gabba Test about playing four quicks and the selectors went with Nathan and he did a fantastic job."

Australia coach Darren Lehmann acknowledged that while the Perth pitch was likely to see a return to the short-pitched bowling tactics that his team employed in Brisbane, the WACA had also shown itself to be a good batting strip in recent years.

Another factor that might come into play is Perth's summer weather, with sunny days of 36C forecast for at least the first three days of the third Test.

"I think it will be a lot tougher than everyone is saying in the press," Lehmann said. "Obviously there will be some bounce and carry and it will be hot but it's been a good wicket this year so we'll have to play well.

"We just have to make sure we adapt to the Perth conditions.

"As you've seen, we adapted really well from Brisbane to here (Adelaide) and now we go back the other way.

"So we have to make sure we do that well."