Cricket: England want to make history with 5-0 win over Australia in ODI

Allrounder Moeen Ali and his England teammates want a slice of one-day international history.

Never before have the Poms beaten Australia 5-0 in a one-day series.

In 2012, on English soil, they defeated Australia 4-0 in five-match series.

And in 1980, England downed Australia won 2-0 in a two-game series in England - their only clean sweep to date.

So Ali says the current batch of England's white-ball cricketers have set their sights on an historic 5-0 sweep against Australia.

The tourists lead 3-0 entering Friday's fixture in Adelaide, with the series finale at Perth's new stadium on Sunday.

"Everyone is keen to make history here," Ali told reporters on Thursday.

"Obviously being 3-0 up is a great position.

"(But) this is where we have probably struggled a little bit, where we have won the series and let our guard down a little bit. It's it's something that we want to change.

"To win it ... 5-0 would be an amazing feeling."

Ali said such a series triumph would be all the sweeter because of England's 4-0 Ashes Test series loss, in which he personally struggled.

"The Test matches were a struggle throughout and almost the harder I tried, the worse I got," he said.

"The one-day stuff ... we have more of a stable team, the guys have been together for a very long time now and know exactly what we're doing.

"When you have played the Ashes and lost them, and fresh faces come in (for the one-day series), it lifts the dressing room.

"The environment is completely different from one-day to Test cricket in the changeroom, definitely."