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Team India ready to rumble

Having managed to halt the Australian juggernaut in its tracks at Chandigarh, India will seek to carry the momentum when they go into the fifth one-day international in Vadodara on Thursday, hoping to level the seven-match series.

The eight-run victory over Ricky Ponting's men and the semi-final win over the Aussies in the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa last month clearly indicated that when put under severe pressure, even a champion team can feel the heat and fumble.

This is exactly the kind of situation that captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his team would be aiming to put the visitors in again when the two clash in another high-voltage tie in front of a capacity 20,000-crowd at the Reliance Stadium.

If India manage to turn the tables again on Thursday, they would have beaten Australia in two successive games for the first time in six years.

But to achieve that, they need to show the sort of aggression they displayed in South Africa and in the fourth ODI two days ago in Chandigarh.

Image: The two captains -- Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Ricky Ponting -- inspect the pitch at the Reliance Cricket Stadium in Vadodara on Wednesday