Australia coach Tim Nielsen believed his side were gearing up well for the World Twenty20 after their impressive seven-wicket warm-up win against New Zealand here at the Oval.

After the win a bullish Nielsen told reporters: “I feel we are building all the time. With Brett batting at No 10 we feel we bat all the way down. We showed today we’ve got seven or eight blokes who are frontline bowlers as well. And when we are fielding at our best, we are probably as good as anybody.”

Group C, has somewhat predictably, been labelled the ‘Group of Death’ as, unlike the three other pools, there is no minnow nation with Australia taking on two rival Test sides in the West Indies and Sri Lanka.

But Nielsen believes that will help his side. “I agree we’ve got a tough group but that’s added a bit of edge to what we are doing, we know we’ve got to be up and going from Saturday,” Nielsen said.