Intro:

Reaction following India's 76-run triumph over Pakistan in Adelaide on Sunday (15th February).

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English), MS Dhoni:

" I felt the guys did really well because a World Cup opening game against Pakistan, it is a high stake game, but at the same time we don't want to give it too much of an importance because irrespective of whether you're playing Pakistan or Australia, the games are as important. You get the same number of points. Your run rate, depending on the margin you win, it's the same. I feel we try to keep it as normal as possible, and to a lot of extent we were able to do that."

SOUNDBITE: (English), MS Dhoni:

"Well, the record is good, but it's something that I don't want to get into because there will come a time when we will lose, irrespective of whether it happens this World Cup, next World Cup or four World Cups down the line. It's not something that will stay until the world exists. No point in really thinking about it. Yes, we are proud of the fact that we have done it, but if you just see the stats, India Pakistan stats, you know we are way behind when it comes to that. They have really dominated. I feel definitely World Cup is something that we can, to some extent, be proud of."

SOUNDBITE: (English), Misbah-ul-Haq:

"I think they really played well today, and the kind of quality that they have, they showed it today. I think we could not really manage to score that, our batsmen could not really convert their starts, and some of them just got out early. We need to learn that. Like good players, we need to just carry on, go there and just try to do the job for the team."