The only team Australia have lost to since March 2021 now stand in their way of another T20 World Cup final.
Defending champions Australia head into the semi-final at Newlands on Thursday, as firm favourites, wielding a 3-2 edge over India in T20 World Cup encounters.
Five-time winners in seven previous iterations of the 20-over showpiece, Australia are yet to drop a game at the eighth edition in South Africa.
But according to batter Beth Mooney, recent precedents of coming up short against India, runners-up of the 2020 T20 World Cup, leaves no room for complacency.
"I'm expecting it to be a huge contest, obviously," Mooney said in Cape Town on Tuesday.
"They have pushed us significantly in the last few years and got a bunch of match-winners in their line-up as well. So, we're not expecting an easy game by any means.
"As we know, (in) semi-finals everyone's starting from scratch and no one's got any points leading into that first semi, so now we're going to be on our game from ball one."
En route to the knockouts, Australia, table-toppers in Group 1, routed oppositions by margins as big as 97 runs (New Zealand), eight wickets (Bangladesh), 10 wickets (Sri Lanka) and six wickets (South Africa).
In conditions that have aided spinners and rewarded quicks for astute reading of them, Meg Lanning's side made good on their tournament war cry, "adaptability", throughout the group stages.
Georgia Wareham, Darcie Brown, Grace Harris stood out with the ball. Allrounders Ashleigh Gardner, Ellyse Perry and Tahlia McGrath left their imprint, too.
Vice-captain Alyssa Healy, who is set to slot back into the XI having sat out their last group game on Saturday with a left quad complaint, has led the charge with the bat.
India, for their part, have personnel who are a force to reckon with in their own right, underscored Mooney.
"They play a lot of spinners. So, I'm sure we'll see a lot of the batters in the top order facing a significant amount of spin," Mooney said.
"And we've seen with Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana at the top of the order; they go pretty hard, and Richa Ghosh in the middle ... We certainly know the style of play they've come at us with in the past.
"They know ours pretty well, too, so it won't be any surprises, I don't think, come Thursday afternoon."
A rematch of the 2005 ODI World Cup final, the 2020 T20 World Cup title clash and the 2022 Commonwealth Games final, this fixture marks the first time since the 2017 ODI decider that Australia have taken on India in a major event's semi-final.
The two sides last met in a five-T20I series played across Navi Mumbai and Mumbai in December.
Though Australia won the contest 4-1, India's Super-Over victory in the second match, before a 47,000-strong crowd, showed they can beat the world-beaters on their night.
One of the standout performers in that game, swing bowler Renuka Singh, is India's leading wicket-taker at this tournament.
Mooney, the leading run-scorer on that tour, believes regardless of the conditions at Newlands, which is likely to be rain-free on Thursday, Australia have every reason to be wary of her.
"We played against her back in the series in India in December and she's a handy bowler for them up front," Mooney said.
"She's certainly one we'll have a look at as a batting unit as to how we can nullify her threat because I think she has been pretty incredible this T20 World Cup."
