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By Oliver Brett

4th over - Aus 12-0
No text messages from any of you lot yet, but please keep e-mails and 606s coming in. Talking of texts, I got one from my daughter's school today saying that she'll be sent home early tomorrow so everyone can watch England play football. Interesting protocol. Australia score their first boundary as Paine drives down the ground, but he almost gave Bresnan a return catch in the process. A dicey moment.

3rd over - Aus 6-0
It's strange to see two right-handers opening the batting - so many lefties these days. There's a big drive into the covers from Watto off Jim, but a diving stop from Morgan keeps him to a single. Paine mistimes a pull for two from what was really a friendly long-hop then gets one more next up.

2nd over - Aus 2-0
Stuart Broad doesn't get to share the new ball, Tim Bresnan has that honour instead. Some interesting high bounce may worry the Aussies a bit. Accurate stuff from Timmy, hitting the splice of Paine's bat time and time again. Good maiden.

1st over - Aus 2-0
Watson gets a thick edge past the slips for a single from the second ball, Anderson, operating in the high 80s, probes away at Paine's off-stump, but the right-hander nudges one down to fine leg from his third ball.

1430: James Anderson has the new white ball. Here we go now. Please refresh your browser to make sure everything's up to date.

1428: Two red-shirted umpires saunter out to the middle and they will soon by joined in the field by England's team, all in blue, and the Aussie openers, Shane Watson and Tim Paine.

1426: Jonathan Agnew on Test Match Special says that England's batsmen might be "licking their lips" at the prospect of facing Australia's somewhat green bowling attack. Time will tell. Ryan Harris had plenty of success last winter, and Doug Bollinger has improved enormously since his days as a Worcestershire pro.

From Linemaker on 606 "Eight Bluebags in this team... this is almost too greedy, but let's see what Josh can do."

(I assume a "Bluebag" is a New South Welshman. Eight does seem rather a lot. There has long been a theory that being based in Sydney as opposed to Melbourne or Brisbane makes life a lot easier in terms of winning an international cap in Australia.)

From Ben, New Cross, TMS inbox: "Perfect weather for a bit of Aussie bashing. Think England might just edge it as without Nannes and Tait the historically formidable Australian bowling attack looks a little lightweight. Straussy to justify his inclusion with a big 'un!"

From Annoyed Kevin in Dublin, TMS inbox: "Shocking decision to drop Shahzad for Bresnan, Shahzad seems a genuine 90mph wicket taker, where as Bresnan is a medium trundler."

1416: Last time I remember weather like this in a June one-day series in England was 2006, when Sri Lanka batsmen Sanath Jayasuriya and Upul Tharanga made hay and England's bowlers suffered miserably. Less of the same this time, I hope.

England: AJ Strauss (capt), C Kieswetter (wk), KP Pietersen, PD Collingwood, EJG Morgan, LJ Wright, GP Swann, SCJ Broad, MH Yardy, TT Bresnan, JM Anderson.

Australia: SR Watson, TD Paine (wk), RT Ponting (capt), MJ Clarke, MEK Hussey, CL White, JR Hopes, RJ Harris, NM Hauritz, JR Hazlewood, DE Bollinger.

1406: England make one change from the team which comfortably beat Scotland at the weekend, with Yorkshire all-rounder Tim Bresnan ousting his quietly impressive county colleague Ajmal Shahzad. The youngster's a bit unfortunate to make way, but these things happen when you're generally winning.

1403: Well the big news from the team-sheets is that Josh Hazlewood makes his debut for Australia. He turned 19 in January, is a right-arm seamer from New South Wales and Ponting reckons he's the youngest Australian to play international cricket. So there's a thing.

1400: Crikey, it is absolutely gorgeous out there. The sort of weather that is just crying out for cricket. What a perfect moment for England to start a one-day series against Australia. Ricky Ponting wins the toss and decides that Australia will bat first. Where's your money?

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