Last updated: 13th November 2008
Moores: optimistic mood
We're very confident as a one-day team, we have a clear formula of how we're going to play and we want to go and test it out in different conditions in India.
Peter Moores
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England coach Peter Moores insists confidence is high ahead of the one-day series in India.
Despite losing their final warm-up match against a Mumbai Cricket Association XI on Tuesday by 124 runs, Moores feels his side are well prepared for Friday's series opener in Rajkot.
England won their last one-day series 4-0 against South Africa at the end of the domestic summer but went off the boil during the disastrous trip to Antigua for the Stanford Series.
India come into the series in good form, albeit in the Test arena, after humbling Australia 2-0 in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.
"India will be very buoyant and very up, but will they be able to get down quick enough to be able to deliver in Friday's game?" said Moores, whose side are aiming to become the first England team to win a series in India since 1984-85.
"There is also quite a big turnover in personnel and they have quite a few different players coming in.
"They've got the advantage there of top-flight players coming out of a tough series, so they're in that mode.
"But we've got the advantage that we're fresh and I think, though Tuesday was disappointing, it's not going to knock our confidence as a team.
"We're very confident as a one-day team, we have a clear formula of how we're going to play and we want to go and test it out in different conditions in India."
India have decided to rest Sachin Tendulkar for the first three matches of the series, while key seamer Ishant Sharma - who won man-of-the-series against Australia - is out of the first one-day international due to an ankle injury.
England made two changes to their starting line-up from the side that lost the $20 million Stanford showdown, James Anderson and Ravi Bopara earning recalls at the expense of Graeme Swann and Luke Wright.
Stuart Broad will take his place in the starting XI after passing a fitness test on his sore knee.

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| Sunday 5th July |
| Test Match First Test Match |
| Sri Lanka vs Pakistan |
| Friends Provident Friends Provident Semi Final |
| Lancashire vs Hampshire |
| Sussex vs Gloucestershire |
| One Day Int Fourth Match |
| West Indies vs India |
| Women's ODI 4th Match |
| England Women vs Australia Women |
| Monday 6th July |
| U-19 Test Series 1st Match |
| England Under 19 vs Bangladesh Under 19 |
| Tuesday 7th July |
| County Championship - Div 1 |
| Warwickshire vs Sussex |
| County Championship - Div 2 |
| Northamptonshire vs Derbyshire |
| Essex vs Glamorgan |
| One Day Int First Match |
| Scotland vs Canada |
| Result |
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| Saturday 4th July |
| Tour Match |
| England Lions vs Australia Match Drawn |
| Varsity Match |
| Oxford UCCE vs Cambridge UCCE Oxford UCCE won by 6 wickets. |
| Friday 3rd July |
| County Championship - Division One |
| Somerset vs Yorkshire Somerset won by 4 wickets. |
| Nottinghamshire vs Lancashire Match Drawn |
| Durham vs Worcestershire Durham won by 5 wickets. |
| County Championship - Division Two |
| Middlesex vs Surrey Match Drawn |
| Kent vs Gloucestershire Kent won by 76 runs. |
| Derbyshire vs Leicestershire Match Drawn |
| Friendly Match |
| Warwickshire vs England Match Drawn |
| One Day International Series |
| West Indies vs India India won by 6 wickets. (Revised target - Duckworth-Lewis system) |
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