India coach Gary Kirsten reckons that the team which handles the pressure best will emerge winners of the upcoming four-Test Border-Gavaksar series.

The previous series between the two sides was engulfed in controversy and acrimony with India even threatening to pull out at one stage. But skippers Anil Kumble and Ricky Ponting have both promised to focus on the game and Kirsten thinks the Australians will pose a significant challenge.

"A lot of the time, it's going to boil down to what happens in a pressure situation," he said.

"Who is going to be calmest in that situation, who's going to back himself and believe in himself," he added. "I think that is what it's going to boil down to.

"We know that Australians will be well prepared and they would have done all the homework."

The South African does not want to read too much into Australia's dismal performance over the first two days of their only warm-up game, currently going on in Hyderabad.

"I'm certainly not looking at that game too closely because I know it will be a different Australian team that will walk in and play Test cricket.

"We are instead concentrating on our own processes."