Hampshire batsman George Bailey will use Australia's debacle against India to "galvanise" his side tomorrow.

Bailey, who is standing in as Australia captain for Michael Clarke against England at Edgbaston, was one of eight batsmen to depart for single-figures in their 65 all out and consequent 243-run defeat at the hands of India in Cardiff.

In the absence of the injured Clarke - ruled out this morning because of his troublesome back injury - Bailey inherits the responsibility of leadership as Australia begin their bid for a third successive Champions Trophy title.

As for their initial opposition, Bailey is unconcerned whether England reacted with mirth or otherwise to that spot of bother in Wales.

"They can if they want... I'm not really fussed," he said.

England limited-overs coach Ashley Giles insisted yesterday that he and his team would not be laughing at Australia's expense.

Bailey acknowledges nonetheless that it is pointless to try to put a positive spin on Australia's defeat on Tuesday.

"It's not an ideal preparation, to get bowled out for 65," he said.

"But we'll start on zero tomorrow, and they'll start on zero tomorrow.

"How they prepare or how they take that is completely up to them."

English supporters, if not necessarily the England team, will doubtless be tempted to mention the Welsh debacle to the opposition at some point.

"Good on them, and why wouldn't you be thinking that?" Bailey said.

"But what a great opportunity for us to prove a lot of people wrong.

"What a way to galvanise a side.

"People will have their opinions, and that's fine.

"Everyone's entitled to them, and a lot of them are probably well thought-out opinions, but at the end of the day it's how you perform in the games.

"You can't completely disregard the 65, because you never want to have that in a practice game - in any game.

"We're hoping that certainly doesn't happen tomorrow."

However Australia fare, the personal responsibility will not weigh heavily on Bailey - who believes his leadership role carries less significance with experienced cricketers all around him.

"I'm not under any more pressure than any other captain," he said.

"First and foremost, my role is to score runs in that middle order for us.

"If I can do that, our players have played enough cricket to know the basics of the game.

"I'm not going to do anything as a captain that's going to revolutionise the game.

"It's all their skills... I'm just in charge of hoping the coin lands the right way, really."

He will not go to extremes either about the outcome after 100 overs.

"If we win, am I judged on that?

"Very rarely does a captain have an influence on that part, other than the fact of how he performs as an individual.

"I think the biggest difference has been our consistency of performance.

"Our best is still as good as anyone else in the world.

"If we play our best cricket, I've got no doubt we can win the tournament - and we probably will win the tournament.

"But if we don't play our best - and that's been the issue - the gap between our best and our worst performances has probably grown."