LONDON: No stranger to pressure and expectations, Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar says he can foresee a similar scenario for Kevin Pietersen during the Ashes and has advised the English swashbuckler not to think of the high hopes his nation has from him while batting. "He (Pietersen), can't be thinking of carrying the hopes of a nation when he's walking out to bat.

All the England batsmen have to go out there and express themselves and be fearless in their approach," Tendulkar said. "That's what I did when I started in Test cricket.

I was thinking about feeling at home. I had to follow the bowler as best as I could and react accordingly.

I focussed on that and didn't think anything else," he added. Here to cheer the Indian team in the Twenty20 World Cup, Tendulkar said was looking forward to some fireworks from Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff in the five-Test series next month.

Despite Australia's recent slump of form, Tendulkar feels it will be a quite a task for England to win back the Ashes if the dynamic duo of Flintoff and Pietersen fail to fire. Australia, who whitewashed England 5-0 in the last Ashes series Down Under, made a shocking first round exit from the ongoing Twenty20 World Cup after losing their group matches to West Indies and Sri Lanka.