On paper, Hobart Hurricanes' Sunday night clash with the Brisbane Heat may sound like a bit of a mismatch.
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Before Saturday's double-header, the Hurricanes were sitting atop the Big Bash League ladder with the Heat languishing in last place while missing skipper Chris Lynn with a hamstring strain.
But both the captain and coach of the Hurricanes are focusing on their internal plans ahead of the Gabba showdown with Peter Handscomb pleased with the side's Tasmanian campaign.
"You can't go into a game thinking about the side that's going to win based on what's on paper because the T20 game can be quite fickle and it only takes one player to take it away from the opposition," he said.
"So going into this game we will be doing exactly the same thing that we have done for the first four and that's just backing ourselves in, backing in our plans and making sure when we get out there, we just execute to the best of our ability."
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The side's coach Adam Griffith, who played for South Launceston during his club cricket days, backed Handscomb's statement by saying they try not to focus on what the other sides are doing.
"We focus on what we need to do to play good cricket and if we play our way - play the Hurricanes way - that's worked really well for us for a couple of years now," Griffith said.
"When we get caught up too much in an opposition, that's when we tend to lose our focus a little bit."
Recovering from their loss to the Adelaide Strikers at UTAS Stadium with a win over the Melbourne Renegades last Saturday, the Canes' bowling unit has showed its stuff with golden cap holder James Faulkner (eight wickets), Riley Meredith, Nathan Ellis (both five) and Scott Boland (four) becoming a dangerous quartet.
"We've had this bowling group together now for a number of games, probably a season and a half, and they're really gelling together nicely and they can fill different roles within the team," Griffith said.
"Scotty Boland has come on really well with his death bowling but we even saw Riley Meredith bowl the last over the other game so they all complement each other really well and they work really hard, they train hard, they prepare well and they practice all their execution and training.
"It's pretty impressive to watch when they are up and going."
The Hurricanes' stocks look set to be bolstered, with the world's highest-ranked T20 batsman, Englishman Dawid Malan, joining the squad for the remainder of the tournament, much to the side's relief.
"He's someone we've tried to get for a little while now. We had him in the gun last year to get him across but timing didn't work and selection for England didn't work, so he's someone that we've had in our plans for a while and it's great to see it finally come to fruition."
"He's another quality batter that goes into our top six, someone that I think the change in the rules suit him even more with only four overs in the powerplay.
"It allows him to build in that period after the powerplay and explode as we've seen him do quite a number of times internationally now."
Although the batting position of Malan is undecided, partly due to the strong form of Ben McDermott - who has been coming in at number three - captain Handscomb described the acquisition as "exciting".
"He's been great, [he's] smacking the ball in the nets as well and just watching the other boys watch him and how excited they are to see him bat and hopefully learn a fair bit from him as well," he said.