Zimbabwe will take on Australia and South Africa in a triangular one-day international series over the next two weeks, and the visiting Australians are looking to use the tournament as preparation for next year's World Cup on home soil.
Australia will start the triangular series as the world's highest-ranked ODI team with South Africa third and Zimbabwe languishing in 10th.
While Zimbabwe have only beaten Australia once in 28 ODIs - in their first 50-over clash in 1983 - the tourists have refused to take it easy on their African rivals.
"Every series you play for Australia is important, that's our aim wherever we play and hopefully we can go and have a good series," Australia all-rounder Mitch Marsh said when his team arrived in Harare on Friday.
"I think it doesn't matter who you play. We come here with an attitude that it doesn't matter who we are playing. We bring a good attitude. We play hard cricket. We play to win every game.
"So I don't think it matters who we are going to be playing. We have a lot of respect for both Zimbabwe and South Africa."
Each team will play each other twice at Harare Sports Club before the top two teams will play a final at the same venue on September 6.
With veteran all-rounder Shane Watson out injured and explosive opening batsman David Warner unavailable as he awaits the birth of his first child, Australia will need a new pair of openers for the triangular series.
To add to Australia's problems, captain Michael Clarke could miss Monday's game with a hamstring strain.
While Clarke maintained last week that he was not interested in trialling different combinations ahead of the World Cup, arguing he simply wanted to win in Zimbabwe, coach Darren Lehmann will surely give a number of players an opportunity to open the batting over the next fortnight.
Aaron Finch, who is beginning to shake his reputation as a Twenty20 specialist, will be one option at the top of the order, as will wicketkeeper Brad Haddin and Phil Hughes, who has not played an ODI since November 2013 but has been in brilliant form with Australia A.
Zimbabwe return home having just completed a tour of South Africa earlier this month.
Alan Butcher's Zimbabwe lost all four matches in South Africa - three ODIs and one Test - while they last tasted victory in an ODI against Afghanistan in July.
Elton Chigumbura and Sean Williams will start the triangular series in decent form having top-scored for Zimbabwe in the ODIs across the border in South Africa, off-spinner John Nyumbu looks to be the Africans' most dangerous man with the ball.