Tri-Series: Paul Farbrace welcomes India showdown in Perth for England ahead of World Cup

England assistant coach Paul Farbrace believes the pressure of a Tri-Series shootout against India will bring out the best in the squad.

The victors of Friday’s match in Perth will progress to a final against hosts Australia two days later and Farbrace believes the match will provide another ideal warm-up ahead of next month’s World Cup.

He said: "To have a must-win game on Friday is just what the World Cup is going to be about. It's a great opportunity for us to play two of the best teams in the world in the space of three days.

"Effectively it's a semi-final and a final. That's what you want as often as possible at this level and that's what we're hoping to be involved in in the latter part of the World Cup."

England have lost both of their meetings against Australia in the current series and Farbrace would love to have one more go at them before they meet on the opening day of the World Cup on February 14 at the MCG.

He said: "We've made big improvements from the Sydney game to the Hobart game and we want to play Australia again on Sunday because it's another part of a learning curve.

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"Every time we play is a massive advantage for us. We made great progress from being 33-4 in Sydney to a massive opening partnership (113) between Ian Bell and Moeen Ali in Hobart. We feel we made really good progress and we want to play them again to make more progress."

Stuart Broad may still feeling his way back to top form having missed the last three one-day series due to tendinitis of the knee but Farbrace is adamant he will be back to his best next month.  

"I think every game and every over Stuart bowls he is getting better and better," said the former Sri Lanka coach.

"He's a high-quality player for us, one of the best players in world cricket. He's the sort of player who takes the game by the scruff of the neck...not every team has that many in their side.He's someone who just needs to get back to 100 per cent and he's not far off that. We're really pleased with where he's at."

One player England will be looking to with the bat is Ian Bell and Farbrace, who guided Sri Lanka to ICC World Twenty20 in 2014, revealed how highly Sri Lanka star Kumar Sangakkara rates the Warwickshire man.

Farbrace said: "The Sri Lankans used to talk about Ian Bell as one of the best players in the world.

"Sanga is a huge admirer of Ian Bell, he played with him a little at Warwickshire in 2007 and he was always asking questions about Belly.

"We tend to forget sometimes that we do have high quality players in our team. Belly is right up there, as good as anybody. I don't think there's any doubt about that."

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