Australian pacer Stuart Clark advised the Indian cricketers to stay away from playing any mind game with Matthew Hayden, saying it would only bring out the best in the towering opener.

Hayden has had a stormy relation with the Indians, especially spinner Harbhajan Singh, whom he once described as an "obnoxious weed".

According to Clark, Hayden is mentally very tough and any Indian ploy to unnerve him would only boomerang.

"I think it began a long time ago. Matthew Hayden knows how to play and has been very successful against the Indians. It (mind game) might only bring out the best in him.

"We have come here with an idea of what we need to do to succeed. What they do is completely up to them, we don't care," said the pacer, striking a belligerent note.

"Matthew, all the batters and the bowlers have got a certain job and they are going to do that," he said.

The tinge of green on the track at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium brought smiles on Clark's face and the Australian pacer oozed confidence of running through the Indian batting line-up in the first Test starting here on Thursday.

"It's a very good wicket. There is little more grass than I thought. All in all, I think it's going to make for a good Test match", he said.

Clark said instead of targeting any particular player, Australia would go after all Indian batsmen to win the match.

"We want to take one match at a time and our only target is to pick up 20 wickets", Clark said.

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