Cricket World Cup final: Cummins says Australia will silence home crowd

Australia captain Pat Cummins says his side can't wait to silence the hostile home crowd when they play in-form hosts India in Sunday's World Cup final in Ahmedabad.

A sold-out capacity crowd of around 130,000 is expected to turn up and get behind the Indian team. The hosts are looking to capture a third World Cup title and second on home soil after their 2011 success.

But five-time champions Australia, the most successful team in the competition's history, are a side full of big-match players with plenty of local knowledge from their time in the Indian Premier League.

"I think you've got to embrace it, the crowd's obviously going to be very one-sided," Cummins told a pre-match news conference on Saturday.

"But also in sport, there's nothing more satisfying (as an opposition player) than hearing a big crowd go silent and that's the aim for us tomorrow.

"You've just got to embrace every part of it, every part of a final – you know in the lead-up there's going to be noise and more people and interest and you just can't get overwhelmed.

"You got to be up for it, you got to love it and just know whatever happens it's fine but you just want to finish the day with no regrets.

"We play over here in India a lot so the noise is not something new," he added. "I think on this scale it's probably bigger than we would have experienced before but it's not something totally foreign to what we've had before.

"Everyone deals with it slightly differently – you see Davey (Warner) probably dancing and winning the crowd over, other guys just staying in their own bubble – it should be good."

India have been the undoubted form team of this World Cup, winning all 10 matches on their way to the final, while the Australians have emerged as their