For a while it looked as though Australia would blow their chance of progressing as the batting came to a screeching halt in their chase against Pakistan. However, Brett Lee and Nathan Hauritz did just enough – Australia were through when they levelled scores off the penultimate ball – and another meeting with the old enemy was an added bonus.

Australia will bring with them memories of the 6-1 win in the recent one-day series, while England will say that result doesn’t matter anymore. “We thrashed them the last time we played them,” said Graeme Swann, England’s team joker. The truth, as is often the case, lies somewhere in the middle. Australia clearly have the upper hand in recent contests, but England’s resurgence since arriving in South Africa means they have a good chance of extracting revenge.

England may secretly be relieved that Australia scrambled the final bye, which meant they wouldn’t have to face Pakistan’s mixture of spin and reverse swing on a slow, wearing Centurion pitch. Not that Australia’s attack will be easy, but at least there won’t be any of the unknown. In fact, it’s just the opposite. The teams probably know each other a little too well at the moment.

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And now, with respect to an Australian side that may be the reigning Champions Trophy champions but are still in an undeniable rebuilding phase, England prepare to face a team that really knows how to play one-day cricket. Sri Lanka simply hammered the much-fancied tournament hosts, South Africa, in the opening match on Tuesday. Tillakaratne Dilshan’s majestic hundred put the match out of reach, as the wiles of Ajantha Mendis proved too canny to allow a 300-plus target to be pursued with any confidence – even for a team stacked with the sort of power-players that England can only dream of.

In the absence of Kevin Pietersen (who has scored two of England’s three ODI hundreds since January 2008 – a tally that even Scotland has surpassed) and latterly Andrew Flintoff and even Luke Wright, England lack batsmen who can break the shackles, and raise the tempo. Strauss has been batting like a dream all summer, but even at his most imperious, he is still a man for whom an 80.00 strike-rate is a pacey tempo – hence his unfortunate habit during the Australia ODIs of getting out when well set, usually while attempting a reverse-sweep or similar, shots that his colleagues ought to have been producing while he continued to anchor the innings.

Strange results are possible in 50-over cricket – let’s not forget, when England were last humiliated by Australia in a one-day campaign, in Australia in 2006-07, they somehow emerged with the CB Series trophy in their luggage, after Paul Collingwood stitched together back-to-back victories in the finals. But they’ve never yet won an ICC global event, and they’ve rarely looked less ready to break that habit. The rarefied atmosphere of the Highveld is no place for weary cricketers.

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Even that is beginning to appear beyond them. Two inept run-chases at The Oval and Lord’s were followed by an even worse attempt to set a defendable target at The Rose Bowl, and the over-riding sensation as England’s longest home season winds to a close is one of desperate ennui.

The full houses for the first three matches cannot disguise the antipathy in the stands. The pricey tickets were sold well in advance, at a time when the prospect of watching England v Australia in an Ashes summer was still a tantalising one. Now, like the players, they are turning up out of duty rather than expectation. With the Champions Trophy looming in South Africa in barely a fortnight’s time, Lord’s last international fixture of 2009 is unlikely to provide many lasting memories.

Australia, inevitably, start favourites, because they have the incentive of a slice of history to drive them on – no team has ever been whitewashed 7-0, although England themselves came close before their ODI tour to India was curtailed last year. With Ricky Ponting slotting back into the captaincy fresh from a well-earned week’s break, there’s no question that Australia’s desire will be maintained. England, on the other hand, have taken the opposite route. Paul Collingwood and James Anderson have been rested, a fairly sure sign that the series has already been surrendered.

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There is a real determination in the Australian side to treat this one-day series as a new chapter after the Ashes disappointment. It is an evolving unit as planning looks ahead to the 2011 World Cup and one of their newer faces, Callum Ferguson, produced a classy, unbeaten 71 to hold the innings together on Friday. Andrew Strauss admitted he hadn’t seen much of him and England need to come up with some plans. Ferguson is already averaging over 50 in ODIs.

For England it was a familiar tale of frustration from the top-order as they all reached double figures without anyone passing Ravi Bopara’s 49. There were a number of loose dismissals – Matt Prior top-edged a reverse sweep, Bopara fell to a lazy stumping and Owais Shah tread on his stumps – and too much was left to the lower order. However, England will take encouragement from Adil Rashid’s performance. He followed an impressive bowling spell with 31 off 23 balls, to further enhance his growing reputation.

England Team:

1 Ravi Bopara, 2 Andrew Strauss (capt), 3 Matt Prior (wk), 4 Owais Shah, 5 Paul Collingwood , 6 Luke Wright, 7 Stuart Broad, 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Graeme Swann, 10 James Anderson, 11 Ryan Sidebottom.

Australia Team:

1 Shane Watson, 2 Tim Paine (wk), 3 Cameron White, 4 Michael Clarke (capt), 5 Callum Ferguson, 6 Michael Hussey, 7 James Hopes, 8 Mitchell Johnson, 9 Nathan Hauritz 10 Brett Lee, 11 Nathan Bracken.

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The ICC’s technical committee approved the inclusion of Paine, who was named in the 30-man preliminary squad and has already replaced Haddin for the limited-overs series in England.

The committee also approved the replacement of Daren Powell with Kevin McClean, the 21-year old Combined Colleges and Campuses’ allrounder, in the West Indies squad. Powell had been named in the 30-man preliminary squad despite reportedly turning down the chance to be part of the West Indies side after Chris Gayle and Co. decided to strike.

Trefor James, the Cricket Australia doctor, said Haddin’s surgery was successful despite his unavailability for the Champions Trophy. “After discussion with Brad’s surgeon and the Cricket Australia medical staff, it is clear Brad will not have recovered sufficiently for him to be considered for any part of the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa,” James said. “While the surgery was a success and there have been no complications, the timeframe for recovery is not sufficient and therefore he can not be considered for selection.”

The operation on the ring finger of Haddin’s left hand, which he broke shortly after the toss at the Edgbaston Test, could yet rule Haddin out of the one-day series in India starting in late October. While Haddin is aiming to return for that tour, Australia will not risk him if there is any doubt over his fitness with a six-Test home summer approaching.

“I am aiming to be available for selection for the one-day series in India however this is a decision that will be made in consultation with the Cricket Australia medical staff when the time arises,” Haddin said. “In the past I have been able to recover from finger injuries and surgery very quickly and I am hopeful this will again be the case.”

Source: Paine to replace Haddin for Champions Trophy

His place atop the England order for Friday’s opening one-day international against Australia is now in doubt, although it is uncertain whether England have called in a replacement. An England spokesman confirmed that the injury was currently being looked at the ECB medical staff, but said that there were no further details available at this stage.

The injury was sustained as Denly toppled forwards following a collision with Owais Shah. His left leg caught in the turf as he lost balance, and after rolling on impact he took several moments before attempting to flex his knee. Though he was initially able to leave the field unaided, he had to be helped up the steep flight of steps to the dressing rooms.

Denly scored a half-century on his ODI debut against Ireland last Thursday.

Denly’s injury is not the first time an England player has been struck down while playing football in the warm-ups. Matt Prior suffered back spasms during such a game on the morning of the Headingley Test, and played with the assistance of pain-killing injections.

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Both sides dispatched their Associate opponents in recent days – Australia beating Scotland and England just about avoiding a howler against Ireland – but neither team has yet to master the shortest of formats. Australia failed to reach the group stages of the World Twenty20 while England were beaten to the semi-finals post by West Indies. Also, Australia have lost their last five matches in a row; their last win came in February.

Yet both teams have key one-day players of whom much is expected. For England, a lot was desired of Ravi Bopara in the World Twenty20; he gave encouraging performances of 46, 5, 2, 37 and 55. Now, though, he finds himself in a horrible rut which forced the selectors to opt for the debutant Jonathan Trott in the final Ashes Test, and though he bounced back with a double-hundred for Essex while England’s Ashes heroes were drowning in champagne, he fell for a duck in Belfast.

Meanwhile Australia will have to do without Ricky Ponting, who flew home with the Test specialists, and he’s not expected to be back until the latter stages of the subsequent seven-match ODI series. And with England’s key player, Kevin Pietersen, also absent, these two Twenty20 internationals are an opportunity for someone else in both teams to stake their name.

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If they do get there, it will be some achievement given that they have yet to hit their peak and that nobody is really sure where that peak may be. But their bowling was always a threat and once they got the England game out of the way, it has mostly lived up to its reputation. The return of Abdul Razzaq has livened things up and with Umar Gul, Shahid Afridi and Saeed Ajmal, they were lively in any case.

The batting is still a worry and even a 100-run target against New Zealand entailed losses. In particular, concerns centre on the form of Misbah-ul-Haq and Shoaib Malik; powerhouses in the last World Cup, they have scored 144 runs between them here, just six more than Younis Khan and at vastly inferior strike rates. Incidentally, Pakistan’s press has been rife with rumours of a growing rift between the pair and the captain; Abdul Qadir’s claims about Malik does nothing to dispel the speculation.

The Irish, as ever, will do their best to exploit any such issue to their advantage. They may be playing only for pride but for an Associate nation in a big tournament that is often the main motivation. Few have been unimpressed by them and only inexperience cost them the chance of an upset over Sri Lanka. They will also need no reminding of the events of the 2007 50-over World Cup. Theoretically, if they can beat Pakistan in a 50-over game, then in a Twenty20 game, the chances increase.

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England squad
PD Collingwood*, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, SCJ Broad, JS Foster†, RWT Key, AD Mascarenhas, EJG Morgan, GR Napier, KP Pietersen, AU Rashid, OA Shah, RJ Sidebottom, GP Swann, LJ Wright

West Indies squad
CH Gayle*, D Ramdin, LS Baker, SJ Benn, DE Bernard, DJ Bravo, S Chanderpaul, FH Edwards, ADS Fletcher, XM Marshall, KA Pollard, DJG Sammy, RR Sarwan, LMP Simmons, JE Taylor

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