After being crowned World T20 champions last weekend England remain in Australia for the first of three one day internationals which takes place in Adelaide on Thursday
England's tour began with a 2-1 win in the T20's which preceded the World Cup. We now move into the 50 over format and we start with the squads.
Australia: Pat Cummins (C), Ashton Agar, Alex Carey (WK), Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa
England: Jos Buttler (C), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Sam Curran, Liam Dawson, Chris Jordan, Dawid Malan, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Phil Salt, Olly Stone, James Vince, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Luke Wood
Recent Form
Australia hosted New Zealand in early September, all 3 matches were staged at Cairns and Australia won all 3 by margins of 2 wickets, 113 runs and finally 25 runs.
Just prior to that they hosted Zimbabwe in Townsville and after winning the first 2 matches by 5 wickets and 8 wickets to clinch the series they lost the dead rubber by 3 wickets.
England's last ODI action came at home to South Africa in July. They lost the first match by 62 runs, squared things up with a 118 run victory and no result was possible in what would have been the decider.
Prior to that they hosted India in a 3 match series. They lost the first match by 10 wickets, won the second by 100 runs and then lost the decider by 5 wickets.
Head to Head
Overall the teams have met 152 times with Australia winning 84 to England's 63 with 2 ties and 3 no results
The most recent series came in England in September 2020 and Australia won it 2-1.
The teams haven't met in Australia since early 2018 when England were 4-1 winners.
The Betting - 1st ODI
At the time of writing Australia are 13/20 to win the match and England are 5/4
David Warner is 3/1 to top score for Australia and Jason Roy is 7/2 to do likewise for England
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
The Verdict
Quite a few of this England squad also played in the World T20 and although some were short of game time, it's a pretty quick turnaround from the celebrations that would have followed Sunday's World T20 Final victory over Pakistan.
Australia have included a powerful bowling unit in their squad and Pat Cummins is the new skipper. Let's go with Cummins to be top Australian bowler and Travis Head, who missed the last two series' in the 50 over format to top score for the hosts.
For England, Dawid Malan had limited game time in the T20's and this format might see him be more of a factor.
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Top Australian Run Scorer Travis Head at 7/2 with Sunbet
Top England Run Scorer Dawid Malan at 4/1 with Sunbet
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Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
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