Bengaluru, Feb 26: Singling out Virender Sehwag as the biggest threat for England, speedster Stuart Broad on Saturday said that his team were working on various plans to keep him quiet in the Sunday encounter at M. Chinnaswamy in Bengaluru.

Concurring with captain Andrew Strauss, Broad said that his team were looking to cash in on the experience of Kevin Pietersen who represented the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the DLF Indian Premier League.

Excerpts from a media interaction

On England’s plans to keep Sehwag quiet

Probably it is not wise to reveal the strategy. We are going to discuss about it as he is an amazing batsman. He started the World Cup in amazing fashion. It’s up to the bowlers to bowl in areas [where] he is not that strong. We have to really work on that and ensure that India doesn’t get a flying start. We know that with the new ball it’s a good time to bat in the subcontinent. In an international sport you always play against the best in the world. We have proved our strengths in all the formats – we have won the T20 World Cup and the Ashes in Australia.

On Kevin Pietersen’s Indian Premier League experience

KP (Kevin Pietersen) said that it’s a bouncy wicket in Bangalore. The two warm-up games here didn’t show that and we have to see how this wicket comes up. KP knows that the first 10 overs will make a real impact on the game and [Andrew] Strauss is also in good form. KP will be trying to find boundaries earlier [in the game].

On resuming the duel against Yuvraj Singh using the short ball

We have to use the short ball in all conditions. Hopefully, in the Bangalore wicket, there is a little bit of bounce. We have to use the bounce and catch the batsman by surprise. It’s something we talk about and I don’t think it’s about using it against the Indians and not against the Aussies. If you get the bounce right, it causes trouble to anyone in the world.

On England’s poor record against India in the subcontinent

Stats won’t lie, will they? The team is very different to the one which came here three years back. We have played a different kind of cricket in the last 18 months and we have to continue that form.

On the team’s mindset going into the match against India

We are happy to chase that target. The main area to improve is the death bowling. We gave too many extras which we need to cut out. But we have got the win under our belt and we can move forward to what can be an exciting prospect come Sunday. Everybody is excited playing in the World Cup. Any England-India battle is always exciting.

On playing at the Chinnaswamy stadium

It is exciting to play here. We played here three years back and it was an absolute electric atmosphere - the sounds just bounce around the ground. We have to use that to our advantage. We are obviously going to get pumped by the crowd and keep our emotions in check. The whole occasion is going to be fantastic and whoever controls the emotions better will come out on top. The crowd will be India-dominant. It’s going to be a great experience for the players involved. But the crowd doesn’t change the way you bowl or where you hit it.

On the importance of spinners

We will have to see how the pitch is developing. KP has played a lot of cricket and he has said the ball comes through nicely here. But there will be a couple of patches out there and if they are there, we will play two spinners. But we will see on Sunday morning how the pitch is and we will see how to go about it.

On the English bowlers adjusting to Indian conditions

Mentally we know where we have to bowl at. In the last game against the Netherlands we didn’t execute our plans. We were [more] expensive than what we could have liked. We have got good plans to bowl on these kinds of wickets. We just need to execute those plans. Our bowlers didn’t put their hands up in the last match. We have to go back and practice hard.

On whether Graeme Swann would take the new ball

No discussion yet. But it is something we are open to as a team. It depends on what side you are playing against. It also depends whether the openers like pace on the ball or they are better players of spin. It worked for South Africa to use the off-spin against [Chris] Gayle. But they might not use the same strategy against India or Bangladesh.

On the use of the Umpire Decision Review System (URDS) in the CWC 2011

We can judge only from our own game. It’s quite a hard system without the Hotspot in place, because it’s difficult to pick up the edges. It’s very useful for the lbws. But if you get a nick behind you can’t pick it and then it’s really not worth it. There is a little bit of tactics involved where you have to choose which batsman to use it against and which batsman not to.

On the England batsmen preparing to face the Indian spinners

It’s important to have a positive mindset while batting in the subcontinent. That’s the way we have played our one-day cricket in the last 18 months. Our batsmen are excited about facing the Indian bowlers. We are a world class team and there is no reason why we can’t express ourselves the way we have done against South Africa and Pakistan in the summer. We can play one-day cricket and we are going to turn up on Sunday and show that.