Indian side is all ready to take on Australia in the final of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 at Motera stadium where they trounced the Kangaroos in the 2011 World Cup quarter final and went on to win the trophy.

Though now, there is a generational change in the team and in the approach of the Men in Blue who follow their skipper's script to the letter.

The last time India met Australia in a home World Cup knockout round, it was at Motera where M S Dhoni's men trounced the yellow shirts in the quarter finals.

This time, they meet at the Final frontier but at a very different Motera, under different skippers, strategies and mind space.

Motera was back then dusty, small and a remote venue when compared to a Wankhede or a Chinnaswamy.

It was also not the mammoth it is today. The capacity was then 40,000 and not the 1.32 lakh it roars about today - carrying the name of none less than the Prime Minister himself.

So when Pat Cummins leads his squad into the middle on November 19, he would be doing so to a sea, literally an ocean, of Indian supporters.

Last time, what the Australians were up against was a new India, a compact unit, dueling till the end, bowling well, fielding even better and then packing a punch with an intense round of batting, be it from Yuvraj and Raina or Tendulkar and Gambhir.

It was a show that was meant to and did dump four-times world champions Australia, a script that led them into another blockbuster awaiting at Mohali - a dream semi final against old time rivals Pakistan.

Today the Indian reality has not changed. It has only been upgraded.