In-form England have happily played the underdog card ahead of Sunday's Bristol blockbuster where the host nation will aim to beat Australia for the first time in a 50-over World Cup match since 1993.
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Despite posting scores of 370-plus twice already this tournament – most recently in Wednesday's thumping win over South Africa – England admits the daunting prospect of an unbeaten Australia is by far their toughest challenge so far.
Captain Meg Lanning is set to come back into the fold for Australia after her chronic right shoulder injury was given a rest against Pakistan, while pacewoman Megan Schutt is expected to return in place of Sarah Aley.
Lanning may yet be rested once more ahead of the semi-finals, most likely in the last pool game against South Africa.
England have their own injury concerns with key duo Katherine Brunt (shoulder) and Anya Shrubsole (ankle), but both are expected to play.
Sunday's clash is the first ODI fixture between the two teams in almost two years, and the first meeting since Australia narrowly won last year's semi-final of the T20 World Cup.
"For me it's not about winning or losing, it's about making sure we all turn up," England coach Mark Robinson said.
"As we keep saying, we need to play big games to keep moving forward.
"Tomorrow will be a great testament to see how far we've come – we're playing the world's best. Australia are an outstanding team, they've done really well over the last few years, they're the favourites of the competition.
"We've got a great opportunity to see how far we've come, win or lose."
England captain Heather Knight echoed Robinson's sentiments that Australia remained the benchmark in women's cricket, and said the game would be an excellent opportunity to rectify the dearth of recent success against Australia in World Cups.
"It's a good time to change that stat, isn't it?" Knight said.
"There's always going to be that added pressure – they're the old enemy – but hopefully as a group of players we can rise to that and put in a really strong performance.
"It's the big games that we've been preparing for and a lot of the work that we've done with the players and with the staff is towards those big games and standing up and putting in big performances.
"We've played against the Aussies a lot with the Big Bash and in the Kia Super League and played with and against a lot of the Aussie teams – we know their players very well as they know us very well.
"What's worked so well for us is focusing on what we do and really practicing what we're going to come up against and make sure we nail our skills in practice, and that's what we've done the last couple of days.
"The team's in a really good place at the moment and I think tomorrow will be a really good test of where we're at. We'll go out and hopefully play the type of cricket we have [been playing]."
Australia has cruised to four World Cup wins from four to start the tournament, and bowling coach Joe Dawes said his side was primed to build on that momentum.
"Win," Dawes said simply when asked of the team's mindset going into the game.
"We don't worry too much about the opposition, to be honest, whether we play England, Pakistan, West indies, whatever it is.
"We've got some core values or core things that we try and stick to as a bowling unit and we'll talk about them this afternoon in our meeting and go out and try and execute them tomorrow."
