Champions Trophy 2013: England versus India a clash of cultures as much as cricket With a bowling attack capable of switching between attack and defence with equal facility, England's approach with the bat has worked well in what has generally been a low-scoring competition. Where it looks vulnerable, as when Sri Lanka beat them at the Oval by seven wickets, is when they need 320 rather than 280, totals that require bigger platforms or more pyrotechnics from the middle order. "It's the openers" job or if we lose an early wicket it's my job to assess the situation and think about what is going to be a good score," said Trott. Then we play according to what we think is a good total. We tend to judge it from around the first drinks break, when you get a better understanding. The fielding team also realises then what they should try to limit their opponents to, so there's a bit of feeling each other out with regards to how each team is going to play. Trott reckons the advent of two new balls per innings and the latest fielding regulation, which rules a minimum of five players must be inside the fielding circle at all times (it used to be a minimum of four), has meant teams are still feeling for what a good score is most of the time. For that reason, Trott believes most teams want to bowl first in order to define their batting strategy. It's a lot harder to know what is a good score first up whereas if you can see the run-rate on the board, and generally one-day wickets don't deteriorate that much, that's why chasing is seen as a little bit of an advantage. But we've won a few games batting first, and also done it chasing the last game, so we've done it both ways and feel comfortable going about it each way whatever the toss ends up being. This will be England's fifth attempt to win a final in 50 or 60-over tournaments, whereas India have carried off two World Cups and shared a Champions Trophy with Sri Lanka, following a monsoon in Colombo in 2002. If that looks advantage India, consider too the difference in one-day experience between the captains MS Dhoni and Alastair Cook, the former having captained 139 matches to Cook's 48. This will be Cook's first global final as both captain and player at his first attempt and some feather if he manages to oversee an England win.