Deny Has Injury

Joe Denly looks like he could not play in the one day international against Australia. Denly suffered a left knee injury after playing football.

He caught his studs in the turf and his knee buckled when he collided with Owais Shah during a training session at the Oval.

Denly was left on the floor for 15 minutes before he was helped off by physio Kirk Russell. He is now going to have a scan to see how much damage he has done.
Team spokesman James Avery told BBC Sport: "He is being assessed by the physio and until that happens we won't know any more about Joe's condition.

"We're waiting for medical staff to have a close look at him."
England's tradition of playing football before matches has been criticised in the past. Matt Prior suffered a back spasm while playing football during England's warm-up for the fourth Ashes Test at Headingley.

Paul Collingwood has been very careful recently and was not prepared to let his bowlers run over a damp patch of ground at the Twenty20 international.
Joe Denly made his first England appearance and scored 67 against Ireland in Belfast.  However he was dismissed for a first ball duck in the abandoned first Twenty20 international against Australia.

Jonathan Trott looks like he will be joining the squad as he was the batting hero of the Ashes decider. Captain Andrew Strauss and out-of-form Essex batsman Ravi Bopara are likely to resume the opening partnership they established during England's 2-0 series win over West Indies earlier in the summer.

Meanwhile, a decent forecast for Friday's match will be a relief following the dreadful weather in Manchester - though an under-prepared wicket remains a possible factor for the floodlit contest.
Michael Clarke will lead Australia while Ricky Ponting rests up for the opening matches of the series.
Australia's left-arm seamer Nathan Bracken, a one-day specialist, said: "The last ODI series here was a draw and the last time England was in Australia England won.

"Realistically we haven't beaten England in a one-day series either here or in Australia for the last two times so we are trying to get revenge for those two."

"We haven't been consistent enough in our one-day form, there has been glimmers of what we can do. We have put on good performances in Dubai [against the West Indies] and we played well at the end of the South Africa tour.
"But the consistency that we have prided ourselves on for as long as we can remember is probably not as good as we have expected it to be."