Bangladesh has tremendously started its fifth World Cup ride pounding Afghanistan. Now Bangladesh will face the World Cup co-host and one of the best team Australia on Saturday.

But prior to the Australia-Bangladesh match in Brisbane, the most pronounced word is not the name of the cricketers or team but Tropical Cyclone Marcia.

Both squads are worried about whether the cyclone Marcia would allow the match to be played.

The Gabba ground is bracing itself for the cyclone to make its forecast way down the Queensland coast, with the predicted ensuing overflow of rain already setting the match in peril.

With taking happy moments crushing Afghans, Bangladesh team is expected to arrive on Thursday in Brisbane travelling 600 miles from Canberra.  

In an upsetting build-up, the Australian team have been forced to hold training sessions indoors while the storm has left the four-time world champions scraping their heads over the latent make-up of their team.

Australia could unleash pace quartet Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins on Bangladesh in Brisbane but wicketkeeper Brad Haddin confesses they are at the mercy of Tropical Cyclone Marcia.  

Haddin on Thursday told AFP, ‘All the weather has done has delayed the naming of the team. We are not sure what we are going to get when we pull the covers up.’

The wild weather has also led to assumption that Cummins will join Starc, Hazlewood and Johnson, who all played in the opening 111-run win over England at Melbourne last weekend, in the starting side against Bangladesh. 

The only certainty, admitted Haddin, is that skipper Michael Clarke will play in the game having missed the England match after failing to shake-off the lingering after-effects of his long-term hamstring problems.

Stand-in skipper George Bailey is expected to make way for Clarke despite calls for all-rounder Shane Watson to be dropped after his first ball duck in the win over England.

However, all plans and preparations are now relying on the cyclone Marcia. Both sides will get a point if the match is abandoned.