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Australia match is no ordinary game, says Morgan

England’s captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and sent Australia in to bat in a match Steven Smith’s side must win in order to progress to the Champions Trophy semi-finals.

Australia and England both named unchanged teams from their previous encounters, meaning Adam Zampa and Adil Rashid retain their places after coming in for matches against Bangladesh and New Zealand respectively.

Every game played at Edgbaston so far in this tournament has been interrupted by rain in some way, and more showers are forecast for later on Saturday afternoon.

While England have already qualified, the Australians must win the match in order to stay in contention, and will also be knocked out in the event of a third successive washout, by dint of Bangladesh’s dramatic defeat of New Zealand – both teams would then be on three points, but Bangladesh would progress due to having won a game.

The encounter can also be viewed as the start of the run-in to the Ashes series to be played in Australia later in the year, with both sides eager to give the opposition some thinking to do in the months between now and the first ball at the Gabba in late November.

England: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Joe Root, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Liam Plunkett, 10 Mark Wood, 11 Jake Ball

Australia: 1 David Warner, 2 Aaron Finch, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Moises Henriques, 5 Glenn Maxwell, 6 Travis Head, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Josh Hazlewood

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Source: ESPN Crickinfo