Nathan Bracken believes England will use their Ashes victory as motivation to complete a summer of misery for Australia.

England will play the tourists for the first time on Friday since the hosts completed a 2-1 series win with a 197-run win at the Brit Oval.

The two sides had been due to play each other in two Twenty20 internationals in Manchester but both had to be abandoned due to rain.

The seven-match one day international series will begin at the ground where England claimed the Ashes, and Bracken, who was not in the Australia Test squad, believes Andrew Strauss' team will be buoyed by their recent victory.

"The England side will be using the Ashes win as a motivation to try and beat us here in both forms," the 31-year-old said.

"They will want to win the one form of the game that is left and walk away saying we beat Australia in both the Tests and the one-dayers.

"That will be their goal for the series and for us it will be our aim to stop them."

England struggled to just 209 in their three-run win over Ireland just three days after winning the Ashes in their first one-day international game since the 2-0 ODI series win over the West Indies.

They followed up that series with a largely disappointing performance in the ICC Twenty20, where Paul Collingwood's side failed to make the semi-finals and lost to minnows Holland.

Bracken believes, however, that the hosts have the quality to challenge Michael Clarke's team, who sit one place above England in the ICC ODI rankings in third.

"On paper the England side has a lot of good cricketers in it," he added.

"They have a lot of good players who are coming out of a good Ashes series of performing well and plus there's also a few new guys who have been chucked in there who are eager to impress.

"The series is in England as well so if you are an English player playing in England there is no more motivation than playing Australia here."

The last time the two sides met in an ODI series was in 2007 when England surprised the hosts down under by beating them in the Commonwealth Bank Series shortly after squandering the Ashes 5-0.

Bracken believes that loss will give the Australians an added incentive to beat their old rivals in this ODI series.

"The last ODI series here was a draw and the last time England was in Australia England won so 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," the left arm seamer said.

"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."