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."
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