First one-day international: England v Australia
Venue: The Rose Bowl Date: Tuesday, 22 June Start time: 1430 BST
Coverage: Live ball-by-ball Test Match Special commentary on BBC 5 live sports extra, BBC Radio 4 Long Wave and via the BBC Sport website. Live text commentary on BBC Sport website & mobiles. Also live on Sky Sports 1
 Collingwood reinforces the batting after skipping the Bangladesh Test series
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England begin a five-match one-day series against Australia on Tuesday which will be seen as a prelude to the Ashes starting down under in November.
However, the contests will provide a more informative guide to the chances each team has of success in next year's World Cup on the subcontinent.
Australia's bowling attack is not at full strength, but their batting is.
England welcome back Stuart Broad and Paul Collingwood, who were both rested for the Tests against Bangladesh.
Veteran Australia captain Ricky Ponting suggested his team would be underdogs to win their second consecutive one-day international series in England.
The tourists concluded their otherwise unsuccessful Ashes tour last summer by beating England 6-1 in the subsequent one-day series - and followed that up with a formidable and successful defence of the ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa.
Ponting, however, concedes Australia - who lost to England in May's ICC World Twenty20 final - must rise to the challenge significantly to get the better of their hosts again.
"You would probably think that we have got our work cut out for us to win this series - but we are looking forward to the challenge," he said.
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Should Australia lose, England will be in the unaccustomed position of having won their most recent meetings with the old enemy in all three versions of international cricket - a prospect Ponting is not inclined to contemplate.
"That would be a bit of a change," he said.
"We will be doing everything in our power to make sure that is not the case. I have great belief in this group and great belief in what they have inside themselves."
Meanwhile, Collingwood has called on England to "go hard" against the country with which they have the fiercest and longest rivalry.
Harking back to the Twenty20 game at the Rose Bowl in 2005, a precursor to that summer's remarkable Ashes series, the Durham all-rounder said: "I always remember the aggression we showed with the ball.
"Darren Gough was on a hat-trick ball and bowled a bouncer at Andrew Symonds.
"That was a bit of a benchmark as to how we wanted to attack Australia. We never bowled to break their fingers but we were very aggressive.
"You've got to go hard at them. We've learnt that over the last five or six years."
England, who must decide whether to pick the same team who thrashed Scotland at the weekend or find a spot for all-rounder Tim Bresnan, who was omitted in Edinburgh along with batsman Ian Bell.
Tuesday's floodlit encounter in Hampshire will be the 3,000th one-day international played - and involves the two teams who locked horns in the first ever ODI in Melbourne in January 1971.
England (from): Andrew Strauss (capt), Craig Kieswetter (wk), Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Eoin Morgan, Luke Wright, Tim Bresnan, Graeme Swann, Stuart Broad, Ajmal Shahzad, James Anderson, Michael Yardy.
Australia (likely): Ricky Ponting (capt), Shane Watson, Tim Paine (wk), Michael Clarke, Cameron White, Mike Hussey, James Hopes, Nathan Hauritz, Ryan Harris, Clint McKay, Doug Bollinger, Steve Smith.
Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pakistan) and Ian Gould (England)
Third umpire: Richard Illingworth (England)
Match referee: Javagal Srinath (India)
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