Ian Bell is banking on England calling on the spirit of Australia to turn around their World Cup challenge and progress to the semi-finals.

The Warwickshire batsman was part of the squad who confounded expectations in Australia recently to win four successive matches, one against New Zealand and three against the world champions, to surprisingly win the Commonwealth Bank Series.

Successive defeats in this tournament against Sri Lanka and Australia have left England with a similar equation - they must win their remaining three matches and hope other results go their way to reach the last four for the first time since 1992.

''It's a similar situation to the one we were in during the series in Australia,'' conceded Bell. ''Now we've got to win every game and every game is a final. I think as a team it's good that we can break it down now to what we need to do.''

Following the match against Bangladesh, England then face tough games against South Africa and West Indies before the Super Eight stage is complete and the final four teams have been decided.

But Bell insisted England were not looking too far ahead and claimed: ''We've got Bangladesh and we're not looking much beyond that game, beyond knowing that we need to win every game from now on.

''I guess it helps that we've been through this before quite recently and probably helps the team that we didn't get too sidetracked on things that were going on further ahead.''

Having bullied them into submission and claimed comprehensive victories in all their previous six one-day internationals over the last few years at home and in Bangladesh, England will remain as favourites.

But Bangladesh's shock victory over India to qualify for this stage preceded an equally impressive triumph over South Africa on Saturday while England are yet to claim a victory over top-class opposition in this tournament.

''We're certainly not going to underestimate them by any means,'' admitted Bell.

''Hopefully this pitch here will help us a bit more because we believe there will be a bit more pace and bounce for our bowlers rather than Guyana which favoured the spinners and medium-paced bowlers.

''We know they have some very talented players and we certainly won't be going in underestimating them.''

Liam Plunkett maybe set for a recall at the expense of Sajid Mahmood, who was hammered for 60 runs in 9.2 overs against Australia on Sunday.

Darren Gough insists Michael Vaughan must remain opening the batting for England despite his poor form during the World Cup.

Vaughan has scored just 83 runs in six innings and there have been calls for the captain to drop into the middle order with Andrew Flintoff opening the innings.

But Gough, the Yorkshire captain, would not countenance any such move for Vaughan.

''I have heard a lot of rubbish about him going down the order and not picking himself. Michael Vaughan should open the batting and captain England,'' said Gough.

''He shouldn't bat at number six, he is not a number six. He is an opening bat.

"I would back him all day to captain England and open the batting. He needs a bit of luck. He just needs one performance to bring it around. And for me, he opens the batting.''

Flintoff has also been struggling for runs during the World Cup and Gough believes he would benefit from rising up the order to five, but not to open.

''Freddie's best place is one place up. He should bat at five and (Paul) Collingwood at six,'' said Gough.

''Whenever Collingwood comes in he will score. When he walks to the crease he is awake, he is getting twos and threes.

''When Freddie comes to the crease he needs to get in. To get the best out of Freddie we need to get him in there and get his eye in before he starts. For me, he needs to bat five.''

He added: ''We are still in it. Whenever you have got a player like Kevin Pietersen in your side, who can turn a game in a second, you can win it.'