Manchester: Australia are set to recall sole specialist spinner Ashton Agar, and will be tempted to cut short the rest of gun strike bowler Mitch Starc, in their bid to avoid a third consecutive one-day loss for the first time in more than three years in their series final against England.
Their clear form player of the series, Pat Cummins, said they would take look heart from one aspect of having allowed the five-match series to get to a decider at Old Trafford on Sunday: that they won three knockout finals earlier this year, in the World Cup. 
Agar was surprisingly dropped for Australia's match on Friday at Headingley. Given his assured performance in Manchester last Tuesday, and Australia's glaring problems with economy rates in their most recent match, the 21-year-old is likely to reclaim the place that was instead given to Marcus Stoinis in Leeds.
With the series on the line the Australian hierarchy will also be expected to gauge whether Starc would be able to play without hindering his chances of being at peak fitness for his next engagement with Australia, either next month's tour of Bangladesh or the home summer.
Since Nathan Coulter-Nile's exit after game two due to injury, the gap in effectiveness between Cummins and his fellow specialist seamers has been massive. In the same time Cummins has taken 6-99, at 4.95 runs per over, James Pattinson, Starc and John Hastings have a combined 1-244, at 7.79 runs per over. In Leeds, the Victorian pair of Pattinson and Hastings conceded 21 boundaries between them from just over 15 overs.
Glenn Maxwell, whose off-spin has been handy at hindering the scoring in the past two matches, joked it would be nice to have two Pat Cummins in their squad, given the inability of the rest of the bowlers - himself included - to properly support him.
"He's been awesome, a guy bowling 90mph [145km/h] consistently for you the whole way through - and he seems to be hitting the lengths we've been talking about. I think the rest of our attack is just missing at the moment," Maxwell said.
"Unfortunately, the partnership bowling we built up during the World Cup and through the last 18 months we haven't really hit that this tournament. We seem to have bowled one good over, one sloppy over, one good over, one sloppy over. And it's different people at different times, myself included. I've been guilty of that."
"It just doesn't seem like we're getting any momentum with out bowling. Our batting seems to be [effective] - guys are hitting the ball really well and we're finding ways to get good scores - but it just feels like we haven't quite clicked in the partnerships department with our bowling.
"It's all good having a guy that's bowling 90mph and beating the bat regularly and creating chances, but if they can see him out and score off the other guys it's a bit null and void I think. We've just got to have some guys backing him up and helping him out, because at the moment it's sort of a one-man show with the bowling, and we're scraping together with the batting."
Almost 70 per cent of England's runs off the bat in the series have come from three batsmen: captain Eoin Morgan (277 runs at 69.25), No.3 James Taylor (234 at 58.5) and opener Jason Roy (197 at 49.25). Maxwell lamented Australia keep making the same mistakes, allowing those three members of England's top four to continually fire.
"We're just not really executing at the moment and I think the way we've started each bowling innings is probably a sign that we're not quite nailing the mark," he said.
"It feels like every game we're clawing our way back after the first 10 after giving them the start. Even though we got a wicket in the second over [on Friday] I felt like we let them off at that stage and let them get that run rate above ours and basically made it quite easy for them to cruise through that middle stage and we were always fighting to get back in the game. It felt like we were two or three wickets away from being back in the game which is obviously a long way in one-day cricket where they were playing quite well and I felt like we were always chasing our tail in the field."
Morgan said if there was such a thing as momentum within a five-match series "it is with us", based on their comeback from losing the first two matches of the series.
"Going into Sunday the guys are full of confidence," he said, about a final that could complete a home series in which England have notched series victories over both World Cup finalists from earlier this year, Australia and New Zealand.
"I certainly believed that we could beat them ... sitting here two-all having beaten New Zealand three-two we're pretty confident," Morgan said.
Morgan predicted Steve Finn, who like fellow fast-bowler Starc was rested for Friday's match, would be available to return on Sunday, provided he was not too sore.
ENGLAND (from): Eoin Morgan (c), Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, Sam Billings, Steve Finn, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, Reece Topley, David Willey, Mark Wood.
AUSTRALIA (from): Steve Smith (c), Ashton Agar, George Bailey, Joe Burns, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, John Hastings, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Mitch Marsh, James Pattinson, Mitch Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade.