Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie insisted on Friday there would be no let-up from the world champions in Saturday's triangular final against Pakistan, however long the match lasted.
Rain has marred this warm-up event for next month's Champions Trophy tournament in England with only last Saturday's first match, a 66-run Duckworth/Lewis win for Pakistan over India, producing a postive result.
In all less than 92 of a possible 300 overs have been bowled so far with Australia's involvement limited to the 31.4 overs their batsmen spent facing India in Monday's washed-out game.
But Gillespie said of the final: "We are going to go out there expecting to win. We won't just go through the motions. We are representing our country, very proudly and passionately.
"We'll be trying to knock over the Pakistanis as quick as we can and then knock off those runs," Gillespie also told reporters at Australia's team hotel.
As more rain continued to fall Friday, a truncated final at the sodden VRA Ground in Amstelveen, just outside Amsterdam, looked more and more likely.
And Gillespie admitted bowling shorter spells than normal posed particular problems. "You certainly have to approach it as a challenge. Fatigue is not a factor, it's about minimising the number of runs.
"If you can bowl six overs and go for less than 30 runs, you'd probably say you'd done a reasonable job and your team-mates would be reasonably happy with that. Anything under five an over in a rain-shortened game would be quite acceptable," the 29-year-old quick explained.
{{/usCountry}}"If you can bowl six overs and go for less than 30 runs, you'd probably say you'd done a reasonable job and your team-mates would be reasonably happy with that. Anything under five an over in a rain-shortened game would be quite acceptable," the 29-year-old quick explained.
{{/usCountry}}And he added the pitch would also prove something of a test for the pace bowlers on both sides.
"It's going to be extremely slow. It's going to be the same wicket they used because the groundsman hasn't had an opportunity to prepare another one.
"That wicket was very slow earlier in the week - the ball will probably go underground."
But Gillespie maintained frustration had not set in amongst the Australia squad, who saw Wednesday's game at the VRA against Pakistan washed out without a ball bowled.
"It's always going to be difficult to get quality practice in when it's raining. But I also like to think you don't lose your skills overnight. We know what we need to do to prepare.
"Sometimes you just have to adapt when condittions dictate you can't train how you'd like to train. We'll go into the game fit, firing and ready."