Australia are wary of leaning too heavily on their flawless recent record against Women's T20 World Cup semi-final opponents, West Indies, believing that they "pose a different threat".
Australia enter the first semi-final, at The Oval on Tuesday, as firm favourites after reaching this stage undefeated when they saw off the challenge of India at Lord's.
While India winning wouldn't have stopped Australia's progress to the next phase of the tournament, they were the first side to truly challenge them before being knocked out themselves. That was largely due to a century partnership between Ellyse Perry and Ash Gardner which allowed the Australians to post a record run chase.
"There's been a lot of talk throughout this whole tournament, we've done a lot of work off the field as a whole unit and there's been a lot of buy-in to the pressure side of things," Gardner said. "We know that every single team has got to face pressure. It's just who can handle it the best."
Australia swept both white-ball series on their tour of the Caribbean earlier this year and comfortably won their warm-up match in Cardiff in early June.
West Indies, meanwhile, had to rely on England beating New Zealand to progress to the semi-finals and are yet to show their best cricket at this tournament, having lost their last two group games, against England and Ireland, which ultimately took their fate out of their own hands.
Now they have the power over their own destiny back, as Gardner acknowledged after Australia played their own part in determining South Africa's survival into the knockouts by beating India.
"They've got a lot of class and a lot of firepower within their team," Gardner said of West Indies. "Also a lot of experience, led brilliantly by Hayley Matthews, who's a player that can take away the game pretty quickly.
"But then you look at someone like Deandra Dottin, she's a threat in all three phases of the game, she's a fantastic player. I've had the privilege of playing with her and seeing how she goes about her cricket. She's so fearless in the way that she approaches it, which sometimes can be quite scary because you know that she can flick a switch pretty quickly.
"But then to see the, I guess, inexperience as well that they've got and that rawness that they've got within their side. They definitely pose a different threat.
"Luckily enough, we've played a series against them quite recently so we can do our homework in terms of how we're going to approach a new venue, a fast venue, one that's really nice to bat on."
Gardner and Perry put on 100 runs for the fourth wicket off 59 balls to guide Australia past a lofty target against India. Their 172 for 4 was the highest successful run chase in Women's T20 World Cups.
Gardner finished unbeaten on 53 off 29 balls, striking at 182.75 after an up-and-down campaign personally, in which she scored 58 against Netherlands but 1 and 0 respectively against South Africa and Pakistan. She missed the match against Bangladesh after spraining her ankle tripping over on a pavement in Leeds.
She has played a limited role with the ball, taking just one wicket from nine overs across four matches, conceding 25 off two wicketless overs against India most recently.
"T20 cricket's a funny one where, thinking about the ball, you bowl hard overs and you expect players to take you on and then to put your batting hat on, you want to do that back," Gardner said. "Being an allrounder, you get the opportunity to do both and try and win that momentum back personally.
"So for me, it was not that I needed to bat well (against India), it was just more so how can I set up my innings to put my team in a winning position, and being able to spend some time out in the middle, ultimately, for confidence as well."
Matthews and Dottin are searching for their own impactful innings. Matthews' 48 in their opening win over New Zealand remains her best score so far, although she has taken nine wickets at 13.55 with an economy rate of 6.10 to sit third on the tournament wicket-takers' list. Dottin, meanwhile, is yet to top the 21 she scored against Ireland.
Among their Australian opponents will be a player who has taken the tournament on in a big way, Perry. Having come into her 10th T20 World Cup without a half-century at the event, she has now scored back-to-back fifties and is the fourth-highest run-scorer with 183 at 45.71 and a strike rate of 140.76.
"I've played cricket with Pez for well over 10 years now, so we have a great understanding of each other's games," Gardner said after Sunday's stand. "We've got that trust in each other.
"There's not too many other people within this unit that I've played that much cricket with, so to have that is pretty cool. For someone with so much experience and so much willingness to keep evolving, it just shows younger players like me that there is no real ceiling on that stuff."
