Ricky Ponting has indicated that Australia will field a full-strength line-up against Ireland in Thursday's one-day international in Dublin.
The match - the first 50-over meeting between the countries since Australia's seven-wicket win at the 2007 World Cup - launches a two-month tour which switches across the Irish Sea from next Tuesday when Ponting's men play England in the first encounter of a five-match ODI series.
That will be followed by two Twenty20 internationals and two Tests against Pakistan, and Ponting expects a fully committed display from his side as it looks to shed some early-tour rust.
"For us as a group we want to play to best team we can," said Ponting, who has not played since February after his international retirement from Twenty20 cricket meant he missed last month's world championship.
"Most of the guys have been a month out of international cricket and I haven't played for 10 weeks."
"I want to be playing the best possible players I can with what we've got coming up."
"Let's not forget tomorrow is a one-day international game and that's the way we are approaching it."
Australia is without spearhead Mitchell Johnson, who will join the tour late as he recovers from an infected elbow, meaning the fast bowling duties will fall to international newcomers Doug Bollinger, Ryan Harris and Clint McKay with a possible debut for 19-year-old quick Josh Hazlewood.
With next year's World Cup looming large on the horizon, Ponting said every game between now and then was a chance for players to prove their credentials.
"We've got 19 one-dayers before the World Cup so that's not a huge amount of cricket," he said.
"Every game that we play from here until then will have some sort of focus on it as far as the World Cup is concerned."
"We've got a bit of mixing and matching to do over the next couple of weeks as far to experiment with different teams and different line-ups."
"We are looking forward to tomorrow and hopefully if the weather does the right thing then we can put on a spectacle for the crowd."
Meanwhile Ponting called on the International Cricket Council to halt the player drain from Irish cricket.
The exodus of Ireland's best players has been highlighted by the examples of Eoin Morgan and Ed Joyce, who have both represented England, with the former playing a key role in its ICC World Twenty20 success earlier this year.
Fast bowler Boyd Rankin, who has 20 ODI caps with Ireland, has also been identified by England after he was selected in the ECB's enhanced England performance program that trained in the United States.
That has led to fears inside Cricket Ireland that it will lose another of its key players and Ponting on Wednesday went into bat for it, claiming the progress of the fledgling nation on the international stage is being unfairly undermined.
"I'm very sympathetic to countries like Ireland that potentially could keep losing their better players. It's something that shouldn't happen I feel," Ponting said.
"I think the ICC should be worried about that as far as trying to develop countries like Ireland and having some of their best young players poached, even in county cricket."
"If the ICC look at that and are fair dinkum about Ireland continuing to grow as a nation and maybe one day being a Test-playing nation they can't afford to have their