We’ll silence India crowd Nielsen


Australian coach Tim Nielsen (L) and captain Ricky Ponting watch their team train while Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar (R) listens to captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni during a practice session at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
Australia coach Tim Nielsen believes silencing the 48,000-strong crowd in Thursday’s World Cup clash against India could open the semi-final door for the defending champions.
India will start favourites for the quarter-final showdown, but Nielsen believes the
pressure of playing at home, in front of demanding fans and media, could push Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men to breaking point.
‘Playing at home is a huge factor for them. There’s some pressure there and if we can start the game well and maybe quieten the crowd that will play on the mind of the Indian team,’ Nielsen told reporters.
‘The media and the public scrutiny will also be so great that you’d expect India to have most of the pressure on them.
‘They will be answering all the questions; there’ll be questions about the surface we play on, there’ll be questions about their line-up.
‘It would be nice to think we can sneak under the radar a bit and just go about our preparation over the next few days and be as ready to go as we can be.’
Australia saw their 34-match unbeaten streak at the World Cup ended by a resurgent Pakistan in Colombo on Saturday, a result which meant they finished third in their qualifying group behind Shahid Afridi’s side and Sri Lanka.
Nielsen believes Thursday’s game would have made an ideal finale to the tournament.
‘The adrenaline will certainly be flowing and playing in front of their home crowd in Ahmedabad will be exciting and a challenge for us,’ he said.
‘We’ve got no fear now; we know we’re in the knockout stage. It’s exciting - a mini-grand final in itself.
‘If you came here and thought, ‘What would be the best result? It would be great to make the final against India’.
‘Well, we’ve got our final against India in the next few days. I’m sure if we’re on our game, they won’t necessarily be looking forward to playing against us. That’s something in our favour.’
Australia will go into the match having won nine of the last 15 one-dayers played between the two teams in India.
They also have an impressive record against India in World Cup matches, having beaten them in seven of nine meetings.
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Windies to face the music from gallery

After they have done all the damage to the Bangladesh cricket team, West Indies can expect a huge antagonism from local fans when they face Pakistan in the first quarter-final in Dhaka today.
West Indies skittled Bangladesh out for the lowest-ever team total of 58 runs in the group stage before putting the love of Bangladeshi fans for the game in question by exaggerating an incident of stoning their team bus.
An unruly fan threw two pebbles at their team bus in a mistaken identity which took the cricket world by storm after opening batsman Chris Gayle had mentioned it in his twitter posting.
West Indies even did not spare the International Cricket Council from criticism after they had played down the incident and said it was just an emotional outburst of a fan who was hurt by the humiliating defeat of the home side.
Many Bangladeshi fans apologised for the incident by gathering at their team hotel and showing them placards. Still it took a long time for West Indies to forget the trifling matter which almost costs Bangladesh the rest of the World Cup.
Bangladesh fans were still cheering for West Indies when they faced England at the group stage. A West Indies win in the game would have propelled Bangladesh into quarter-final but they could not do them the favour.
Pakistan, their quarter-final opponents, have a general fan base in Bangladesh but the events leading into the game only made  them more crowd favourite for tournament’s first knock-out game.
Darren Sammy, the West Indies captain, who claimed three wickets against Bangladesh, was still expecting some support from the fans.
‘Since we have been back here we feel loved by the people,’ Sammy told in a news conference on Tuesday.
‘It’s unfortunate what happened but we put that behind us. We know Bangladesh people are loving people and they support the cricket.
‘No doubt tomorrow [Wednesday] will be an
exciting game and hopefully West Indies will come out on the victorious end,’ he said.
Sammy said their performance against Bangladesh would encourage them in the game.
‘We played here and it was a perfect demonstration of plan being executed. We will be taking confidence from that and looking to put good performance,’ he said.
His counterpart Shahid Afridi, however, said West Indies will make a big mistake if they like to treat his Pakistan they way the treated Bangladesh.
‘That was Bangladesh and this is Pakistan. The match is different. The team is different. The condition is different for us as well,’ Afridi said in a separate press conference.
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