A 4-2 defeat of Argentina saw Australia advance from its quarter-final in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar, which lined up another penultimate stage confrontation with the back-to-back Olympic champs.

Deavin and fellow Tasmanian Eddie Ockenden both played in the 2012 Olympic semi-final in London. where Australia led 2-1 with 15 minutes remaining only for the Germans to storm home 4-2 en route to retaining their title.

Deavin, Ockenden and Nick Budgeon are all in India helping the Kookaburras chase a sixth straight Champions Trophy title, and all featured in the defeat of Argentina.

Asked how the team would prepare, Tamar Churinga defender Deavin said : "We prepare the same way for all teams. The majority of the focus is on ourselves and what we need to do and how we play.

"We analyse the other team and individual players, how they play and what's coming, but the majority of the game is on what we do."

The 30-year-old said head coach Graham Reid's new-look team was capable of extending a phenomenal year that included romping to successful World Cup and Commonwealth Games defences, but remained focused on the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

"This year has been quite long and strenuous with a lot of days on the road, so it has taken its toll mentally and physically," he said.

"We did have quite a nice break in between the transition of coaches, which was good for the guys to get home and see family and friends and have a wind-down period, and now [we're] back into the first tournament leading into Rio.

"We're playing down to our 40th man to try and give young guys and new guys exposure and game time to see who should get into the squad for the next couple of years and who has potential to play in Rio."

Deavin said previous experience of playing and travelling in India had prepared him for the conditions.

"You can't be too wound up coming here because nothing goes to plan.

"It's a very different place. A lot of people love coming here to travel but unfortunately on a work or sporting capacity it's sometimes very frustrating with organisational things so you've got to expect the unexpected all the time.

"Having come here before and experienced it is good because you get in the right frame of mind, knowing that the bus is going to be 20 minutes late or you may take an hour to get two blocks down the road because there's a cow asleep on the road or something like that."

Goals from Simon Orchard, Jeremy Hayward, Daniel Beale and a late Chris Ciriello penalty corner saw off Argentina to set up today's rematch with Germany.

Ockenden captained the team on his 229th appearance in the week in which he was nominated as FIH world player of the year.

"It's really nice to be nominated," said the Hobart 27-year-old.

"I think I was nominated partly because of the team success this year. It's nice when these individual things come along, but I could pick five or six guys from our team that could easily be nominated, let alone the rest of the world."