New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said he held no fears over the prospect of individual brilliance ending his team's Cricket World Cup dream.
The tournament co-hosts won all six of their pool matches and enter Saturday's quarter-final against West Indies in Wellington as hot favourites.
McCullum has always been wary of match-winners, of which there are plenty – including opener Chris Gayle – in West Indies' team.
But he said New Zealand had nothing to fear, willing to accept defeat if an individual took the game away from his team.
"[I'm] not fearful. Realistic that that could happen," McCullum told a news conference on Friday.
"If that's the case, then we play our best game and someone who is good enough to get over top of us, then we play the game that we play. We're certainly not fearful.
"I don't think you can be fearful of anything in this game. It's a competition between two teams and a competition between bat and ball. That's pretty much where it lies.
"You can't be too worried about the emotions which come into the game. You've just got to deal with the game as it unfolds.
"If West Indies turns up tomorrow, someone plays a match-winning inning which is good enough to overcome and upset our best, then I can live with that. That's just how the game is played.
"But I'm still confident that we've got the team that even if we don't have the perfect trip, we're still a chance of being there at the finish. We'll wait to see what unfolds."
McCullum said it was likely New Zealand would only make one change to the team that beat Bangladesh, with Adam Milne replacing Mitch McClenaghan.