Aussie Looks Fight Back

Birmingham: Alastair Cook's side hold a 2-0 lead in the five-match series, with a comfortable six-wicket win at The Oval last Sunday making it very tough for the touring Australians to come out of the series with anything.

England can overtake their opponents at the top of the one-day international rankings with a clean sweep of the series but Bailey says that is unlikely and believes his side can still win the series.

For Australia, Bailey made a patient 65 from 86 deliveries in Sunday's match, but took a long time to get going, robbing Australia of momentum through the middle part of their innings.

They finished with a score of 7-251 – which proved to be well below-par – and although Bailey ended his innings with a flurry of boundaries, he ultimately lost his wicket at a crucial period.

The Tasmanian believes it is a confidence issue and knows he needs to start more aggressively in Wednesday's match at Edgbaston.

England all-rounder Chris Woakes was drafted into the squad as a replacement for Jade Dernbach and with Jimmy Anderson still recovering from a groin injury, could feature in Birmingham.

Stuart Meaker and Jade Dernbach were scheduled to miss out on this particular match as they were to attend the funeral of their county team-mate,

Teams from:

England: Alastair Cook (captain), James Anderson, Jonathan Bairstow, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter (wk), Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, Jason Roy, Chris Woakes

Australia: Michael Clarke (captain), Xavier Doherty, Peter Forrest, George Bailey, Ben Hilfenhaus, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Clint McKay, James Pattinson, Steven Smith, Matthew Wade (wk), David Warner, Shane Watson

Pitch & conditions
Well everything you read until now might come to nothing as the weather forecast is anything but ideal for cricket. The chance of rain is as high as 70 percent with light rain showers expected right through the day.

Stats and trivia

• The teams have met eight times at Edgbaston, with England ahead 4-3 and one no result.
• That no-result was the most recent meeting, in 2005, when Simon Jones and Matthew Hayden went chest-to-chest ahead of the Ashes series.
• Jonathan Trott needs eight runs for 2000 in ODIs. Alastair Cook needs 49 for the same landmark.
• Brett Lee needs one wicket to become Australia's leading wicket-taker in ODIs with 381, level with Glenn McGrath's overall tally but one of McGrath's came for the World XI in the 2004 tsunami fundraiser.

Match facts
Wednesday July 4, 2012 (day/night)
Start time 14:00 local (1300 GMT)