As if a team unbeaten in 32 World Cup matches isn't daunting enough, Ricky Ponting's side is coming off a seven-day break that followed the abandonment of its match against Sri Lanka. That game came after another week-long break for the Australians following a seven-wicket thrashing of New Zealand.

Australia will make sure of its place in the quarterfinals if it beats Kenya on Sunday in Bangalore, and with Wednesday's match against Canada to follow, it will be absolutely no surprise if the unbeaten run moves on to 34 ahead of the final group game against Pakistan.

“We want to win every game we play, it's as simple as that,” Ponting said after the game against Sri Lanka. “We won't be talking about anything else.” With Mike Hussey adding his considerable batting talents to the side, Australia, having started the tournament in the unusual position of not being favorite, is looking ominous once again.

Hussey, who replaced injured bowler Doug Bollinger, said Friday he had not been told if he will play against Kenya, but he is expected to return to the lineup, perhaps in place of his brother David.

“I think everyone wants to see how I'm traveling and get used to the conditions,” Hussey said. “There's certainly an adjustment period in coming from Australian conditions into Indian conditions.” Such has been the ease of Australia's progress so far that one of the few concerns has been a lack of time at the crease, in particular for its middle order batsmen who haven't really been called into action since the opening win over Zimbabwe.

Ponting said after the abandoned game in Colombo that Australia could shuffle its batting order against Kenya.

“I don't want to be tinkering with things too much, but after a game like today where you're 30 overs in and it's washed out, it just makes us think that little bit more about it,” Ponting said.

While Australia has comfortably beaten Zimbabwe and New Zealand, Kenya's four losses have been by 10 wickets, 205 runs, nine wickets and five wickets - the latter against a Canada side it was expected to beat.

With just the matches against Australia and Zimbabwe remaining, Kenya is running out of time to prove a point to the ICC, which has reduced the World Cup to 10 teams from 2015.

Opening batsman Seren Waters said Friday it would be unrealistic to expect a win on Sunday, especially given Kenya's four losses in four previous games against Australia.

But Waters clung to the fact that Kenya's totals have improved with each game, culminating in a 198 against Canada.

“Although we haven't played the kind of cricket we'd hoped to play throughout the tournament we feel we've improved a bit and there's a bit more confidence in facing the kind of bowlers that we're going to come up against,” he said.

“We're looking to put in a couple of good performances in these last few games because we know we've underachieved.” However, Waters himself admitted that Australia's pace attack of Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson is perhaps the best in the world, and the trio will surely be itching to get at a batting lineup for whom only Collins Obuya is averaging more than 30 at the tournament.

“Facing Australia is going to be a big challenge, because three bowlers that are bowling about 150kph (93mph) consistently is something that none of us will have ever faced before,” Waters said.

Kenya's battle to restore pride could hardly have come against a more daunting side.