Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has demanded results from his team ahead of its ICC Champions Trophy semi-final against New Zealand on Wednesday.
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Fresh from guiding his team to victory over India on Sunday to top its group and set up the Mohali battle with the Black Caps, Ponting will have all of his stars at his disposal and says there will be no reason for his team not to win.
"There are no excuses now for us," Ponting told The Australian.
"We've got a good team, we've got a full list of guys to pick from and we're playing a semi-final at a venue that we've just played a game on. We can't complain, with the way things have worked out for us."
Ponting refused to enter into any pre-match banter with the Kiwis though, preferring to identify the opposition's strengths that will have to be neutralised.
"I think (New Zealand's) strength over the last couple of years in their one-day cricket has probably been they have lots of all-rounder sort of players," Ponting said.
"They've had (Scott) Styris and (Jacob) Oram, and (captain Stephen) Fleming has done a good job for them here in a couple of games."
"They just really enjoy playing one-day cricket and they haven't got much Test cricket coming up and they haven't played much lately, so they've been gearing themselves for this sort of tournament."
"I think the conditions that we're playing in here probably suit them a little bit as well."
