Sydney: This Australian playing XI has just two cricketers — skipper Michael Clarke and all-rounder Shane Watson — who have experience of playing beyond the quarter-final stage in a World Cup. In Team India, there are three — skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, his deputy Virat Kohli and southpaw Suresh Raina.


Michael Clarke (centre) trains with teammates during a practice session at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Pic/AFP 

Clarke realises that it's big game experience that will see a team through in such high pressure situations and that's the most probably the reason why he wants his boys to consider today's World Cup semi-final against India to be "like any other game".