England resume hostilities with Australia in Cardiff looking ahead to the World Twenty20 rather than back at their Ashes triumph.
With the white clothing and red balls packed away for the summer, the rivals begin a fortnight of limited-overs cricket with a standalone NatWest T20 international at the SSE Swalec on Monday.
A maximum of nine players from the Test series will be on show, five in Australia's already-named XI and Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler and Steven Finn from the England ranks.
As such the fixture will be more about preparing for March's World T20 in India than continuing battles from England's 3-2 Test success.
England have only seven matches in the format before the tournament begins - two of those coming after the final squad is announced.
"Our priority now turns to the T20 World Cup and driving our one-day cricket forward," said captain Eoin Morgan on the eve of the match.
"We want to get a formula together before the World Cup which is obviously crucial.
"We don't play that many T20 games before the T20 World Cup and the ideal case scenario is that we don't change the ODI team that much to the T20 team.
"I'm hoping we can add five or six more names to that pool that we can stick with over the next two or three years to build something."
Morgan has had an unusual lead up to the game, having taken an unscheduled month off from county cricket.
Having started the year leading England's doomed World Cup bid in Australia and New Zealand before travelling for a stint in the Indian Premier League, Morgan slipped into a rut with Middlesex.
He found runs in short supply and was granted a leave of absence after making just 20 runs in his first three Royal London One-Day Cup matches.
That is hardly a textbook preparation for taking on Australia but the 28-year-old believes the break has done him the power of good.
"I was the one who brought it up. I sat down with Gus Fraser (director of cricket) and discussed the pros and cons of it," said the Dubliner.
"I can't imagine there are many county directors that would have taken English cricket as a priority over possibly Championship or one-day games but we talked about the benefits of it and, sitting here now, I'm probably twice the man I was a month ago because of the schedule, the hectic nature of it, the amount of cricket we play and the very little time off.
"I feel really fresh now. My attitude, my mind, my body is a lot better than it was a month ago. I'm raring to go."
Australia will hand a debut to Victoria all-rounder Marcus Stoinis and have also named leg-spinner Cameron Boyce, who will be studying the weather more keenly than most having undertaken a 20,000 mile round-trip for the chance to bowl four overs.
Source: PA
