England will play a Test, a Twenty20 game and an ODI in Melbourne
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Australia have confirmed the full schedule for England's 2010-11 Ashes tour, which includes three warm-up games and seven one-day internationals. The tourists begin with three-day warm-up matches against Western Australia, South Australia and Australia A. After the Ashes Tests, for which the dates had already been announced, England will face the Aussies in two Twenty20 games and seven one-dayers. England lost 5-0 in the Tests on their last visit to Australia in 2006-07. On that occasion, they lost their first one-day warm-up game to a Prime Minister's XI, before drawing three-day games against New South Wales and South Australia - and received some criticism for the lack of competitive opposition in the lead-up to the first Test. Once more, England will face a World Cup immediately after touring Australia. The final one-dayer in Australia is on 6 February 2011, 11 days before the World Cup opening ceremony in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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England would have a further five days to prepare for their first fixture, a match-up with Netherlands in Nagpur, India. Australia will also host Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 international and three ODIs before England's arrival. They will effectively be on the go from 31 October until the end of the World Cup - and some Australian players will not necessarily be thrilled at the heavy workload. Captain Ricky Ponting has previously argued that seven-match one-day series are too long, but James Sutherland, Cricket Australia's chief executive, said the team would have some "great preparation" for the World Cup. Sutherland went on: "We have a very strong focus on retaining our position as the number one ranked one-day team in the world. A World Cup win would make it four titles in a row."
England's 2010/11 tour of Australia: 5-7 November v Western Australia, Perth 11-13 November v South Australia, Adelaide 17-20 November v Australia A, Hobart 25-29 November 1st Test, Brisbane 3-7 December 2nd Test, Adelaide 10-12 December v Victoria, Melbourne 16-20 December 3rd Test, Perth 26-30 December 4th Test, Melbourne 3-7 January 5th Test, Sydney 10 January v Prime Minister's XI, Canberra 12 January 1st Twenty20 international, Adelaide 14 January 2nd Twenty20 international, Melbourne 16 January 1st ODI, Melbourne 21 January 2nd ODI, Hobart 23 January 3rd ODI, Sydney 26 January 4th ODI, Adelaide 30 January 5th ODI, Brisbane 2 February 6th ODI, Sydney 6 February 7th ODI, Perth
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