One-day series, Adelaide: Australia v EnglandMatch starts 0315 GMT Friday

Lewis (ankle) and Anderson (back) could both miss outOpening bowlers Jon Lewis and James Anderson are both injury doubts for England going into Friday's one-day match against Australia in Adelaide.
Anderson (back) and Lewis (ankle) both missed Thursday practice but Anderson's MRI showed no stress fracture.
"There is a difference between having a stiff back and the sort of pain I was getting when I had the stress fracture.
"It is one of those things you expect as a fast bowler. The scan was just a check that everything was OK," he said.
Any two of young seamers Chris Tremlett, Sajid Mahmood or Liam Plunkett could play in their place.
"The players who have come in are capable of stepping up to the plate," said veteran Paul Collingwood.
"Tremlett had a bit of an outing in Brisbane and looked pretty impressive."

Collingwood hopes a re-match with Australia at the ground where he hit a historic Ashes double hundred in December will help him overcome his own poor form.
Since then he has made 104 in six Test innings and only 63 more in four one-day matches.
"The form has tailed off but I am working as hard as I always do." he said.
"Every player goes through dips in form but you are only one score away from getting that back and that is what you have to keep believing."

We are big enough and have played enough games to say we have to go out there and perform
Paul Collingwood
Going into the Australia Day match, Collingwood's form has come in for scrutiny because of injuries around him in the batting order.
Captain Michael Vaughan (hamstring) is expected back for Tuesday's match against New Zealand in Perth but Kevin Pietersen (rib) is out for the rest of the tournament.
"I have obviously been thinking about it, trying to improve, trying to get some runs on the board and do my job for the team," said Collingwood.
"It is a good ground for me personally getting a big score like that."
Opener Andrew Strauss is also struggling, with an average of under 20 so far in the one-day Commonwealth Bank Series.
England's batting reached a low point at the ground on Tuesday as the tourists were bowled out for 120 in defeat to New Zealand.
They now probably need at least two wins from their four remaining matches to reach the best-of-three series finals.
"Embarrassed is the wrong word to use, we were pretty disappointed," said Collingwood of the 90-run defeat.
"We are bowling pretty well at the minute and as soon as we get both forms of the game in place at the same time hopefully we will win games.
"We need to stand up and be counted, simple as that - we are big enough and have played enough games to say we have to go out there and perform."
You need someone in your top three or four to make big scores - we did in the first game, but haven't since then
Ricky Ponting
The second Ashes Test, when Collingwood hit 206 in the first innings but was part of a batting collapse in the second, is arguably the closest England have come to beating Australia all tour.
Thursday's game will be their ninth international meeting in the last two months - after a 5-0 Test series whitewash, defeats in the Twenty20 international and the first two one-day meetings.
Australia's pace bowlers have been the stars of the one-day series so far, with Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark and Mitchell Johnson rotating in the attack.
But captain Ricky Ponting wants his batsmen to overcome two poor outings and get back to their best.
In their past two matches, they were in early trouble at 48-4 and 77-4, with Mike Hussey coming in at number six to steer them to victory both times.
"We haven't been chasing big totals and we've managed just to scrape across the line," Ponting complained.
"We did in the first game, but haven't since then. You need someone in your top three or four to make big scores."

The neck was a little bit stiff and sore for a few days

Andrew Strauss
England batsman Andrew Strauss has been passed fit for Friday's one-day game against Australia in Melbourne.

Strauss was hit on the head by a ball from Brett Lee during the final Test of the Ashes series and missed Tuesday's Twenty20 loss with a stiff neck.

"Turning around was a little bit awkward, but I am now fully looking forward to getting stuck in," he said.

Strauss will not have to contend with fast bowler Lee at the MCG as he is still suffering from bronchitis.


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Australia have, however, picked exciting left-armer Mitchell Johnson after he recovered from a stomach muscle strain and have Ashes stars Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark in their starting line-up.

England are expected to hand one-day international debuts to veteran wicket-keeper Paul Nixon and left-arm spinner Monty Panesar for the triangular tournament's opener.

Nixon and Panesar gave encouraging performances in the Twenty20 match.

Strauss said his team's poor one-day form recently, with just seven wins in their last 27 games, could actually work in their favour as they look to upset the host nation and the Kiwis.


Johnson proved his fitness in a net session on Thursday

"We're going in there with a sense that we haven't got much to lose," he said.

"We can play the sort of cricket we know we are capable of and maybe surprise a few people."

Strauss' return will probably put his Middlesex colleague Ed Joyce out of the starting side.

For Australia, McGrath is likely to share the new ball with the one-day specialist Nathan Bracken, another left-armer.

The retirement of Damien Martyn, meanwhile, will offer Michael Clarke the chance to move up the order with one-day cricket's official best batsman Michael Hussey remaining at six.

"Michael Clarke is going to bat at four with Andrew Symonds at five and Michael Hussey at six," said captain Ricky Ponting.

"Huss has been incredible down the order in one-day cricket and for the last five or six years of his career has batted in that position.

Watson, being the sort of player he is, will be able to fit into our line-up pretty much anywhere down the order

Ricky Ponting

"Michael Clarke has got a chance up the order. He has been a bit starved of that over the last couple of years, has been dying to go up, so his chance has come now."

Ponting said all-rounder Shane Watson remained part of the team's plans for the World Cup in March despite having missed most of the season with a hamstring problem.

The injury put Watson out of the Ashes series and he has been told he must play two four-day games for state side Queensland before he will be considered for the national team.

"Watson, being the sort of player he is, will be able to fit into our line-up pretty much anywhere down the order. I see him as being a really crucial player for us," said Ponting.

"I think it's a day-by-day assessment with him really, just to see how he's going and how much bowling he can get done.

"We'll just keep our fingers crossed and hope it's sooner rather than later for him."
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Australia: R Ponting (capt), A Gilchrist, M Hayden, M Clarke, A Symonds, M Hussey, C White, N Bracken, S Clark, M Johnson, G McGrath.

England (from): M Vaughan (capt), A Strauss, E Joyce, I Bell, K Pietersen, A Flintoff, P Collingwood, J Dalrymple, P Nixon, J Anderson, J Lewis, M Panesar, C Tremlett, S Mahmood, L Plunkett, C Read.