Australia and England meet in the one-day international tri-series on Friday with both teams aiming to put scandal behind them and focus on their preparations for the upcoming Cricket World Cup.
Both sides have seen their build-up to the clash at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart disrupted for very different reasons.
The hosts will be without David Warner as he rests a hamstring injury at the end of a week that has seen him attract negative headlines.
Opening batsman Warner, known for his aggressive playing style, was fined 50 per cent of his match fee from the win over India last Sunday for imploring Rohit Sharma to "speak English" during a confrontation at the MCG.
Vice-captain George Bailey - who is standing in for the injured Michael Clarke - is also out after being suspended for a slow over-rate in the comfortable four-wicket success against India.
All-rounder Shane Watson is unavailable due to hamstring tightness, with Cameron White, Shaun Marsh and Moises Henriques set to come in for that trio, while Steve Smith will assume the role of skipper.
For middle-order batsman White, the game will mark his first ODI appearance since April 2011.
Three hundreds in the last six months in domestic ODI cricket has been enough for White to earn a recall, and he will hope to replicate that form against an England side whose captain has been the subject of a blackmail threat.
Skipper Eoin Morgan was blackmailed by the current boyfriend of an Australian woman Morgan had a relationship with five years ago.
The man, who attempted to extort money out of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has been found, with the matter now closed after he admitted the blackmail.
Morgan will look to move on from that bizarre episode and should be confident of his team gaining a measure of revenge for the three-wicket loss they suffered in the tri-series opener with Australia.
England were superb in an emphatic triumph over India that saw Steven Finn take five wickets and Ian Bell post an unbeaten 88.
Bell is 100 runs short of overtaking Paul Collingwood as England's leading run scorer in ODIs and, with Finn seemingly on form on the bouncy Australian surfaces, has hope of England remaining competitive going into the World Cup.
"I don't really know why we put it all together, but it's a good sign," Bell said.
"If we start doing that more consistently, we're a dangerous side. In these conditions with the extra bounce we'll be very competitive."