Australia's Andrew Symonds is looking forward to facing England again after claiming his second man-of-the-match award this week, against Bangladesh. Symonds was suspended for disciplinary reasons last weekend, when the Aussies lost their first two games.
But he has starred since, and took a career-beat 5-18 at Old Trafford.
Of next Tuesday's day-night match at Edgbaston he said: "We're starting to get into full stride now, back to near our best so it should be a good clash."
 |  We got a chance to score big runs, we had the platform but couldn't use it |
Australia captain Ricky Ponting admitted his seam bowlers could have done more in the NatWest Series match.
Brett Lee took two wickets but Ponting said: "There was a bit of untidiness that we have to iron out for when we come up against England again."
"I thought with the overhead conditions the ball might have swung more, which would have played into our hands.
"It wasn't the way it turned out and the spinners ended up doing the job so I'm happy with that."
Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar bemoaned his side's batting after they tumbled from 113-2 to 139 all out.
"We haven't batted well. We got a chance to score big runs, we had the platform but couldn't use it," he said.
"The way Mohammad Ashraful and Shariar Nafees batted it looked like we were going to score something around 230/40 but we just collapsed.
"If you can score 230/40 it would have been a good match because the ball had started really turning."
Bangladesh now need heavy victories next week, over England on Sunday and Australia against on Thursday, to stand a chance of reaching next weekend's final at Lord's.
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