Intro:

Reaction from the two captains after Australia beat Pakistan by six wickets to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup in Adelaide on Friday (20th March).

Script:

SOUNDBITE: (English) Michael Clarke, Australia captain:

(Q: "How much does that bring confidence to the team for what you've got ahead of you now?")

"Well, the fact that we've won I think gives us a lot of confidence. And I think, like I've said in past press conferences, since the New Zealand game, I think we've slowly been building and our cricket has slowly been improving. Every win gives you momentum and gives you confidence, and this will certainly be exactly the same. I think obviously India are a completely different opposition to Pakistan. They have different strengths. Also different weaknesses, as well. So we need to assess them. I think they're obviously playing a lot better than they were throughout the start of the summer, and I said that leading into the World Cup, that I thought India were going to be extremely tough team to beat just because -- well, obviously because they're a very good team, but because they've spent so much time in Australia, as well, they know the conditions quite well. The game on Thursday is going to certainly be a challenge, and we -- I say it all the time, but we're definitely going to have to be at our best to beat them."

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

"We were really going well at one stage, but after 20, 23 overs, suddenly just keep losing wickets, and that's been the trend throughout the World Cup. We are getting starts but we are not converting that into bigger scores, and after six batsmen keep doing like that, it's really difficult for your bowling line up to just defend totals like that every day, especially on batting pitches like we were playing today. We need to really learn about this. We've got only one hundred throughout the tournament, and this is not how you win tournaments like World Cup. You need batsmen who will score hundreds, and I think we as a batting unit failed to do that."