KEIGHLEY-born Yorkshire ace Harry Brook will captain England for the first time today.

And he will do so against their greatest rivals, as he leads his team-mates out for a One-Day International against Australia at Trent Bridge.

It is the first game in a five-match series, with Burley-in-Wharfedale raised Brook standing in for regular white-ball captain Jos Buttler, who is out injured.

Brook’s previous captaincy experience comes in the form of filling in for Yorkshire in a handful of T20s, as well as leading the England Under-19s side and the Northern Superchargers in the Hundred.

Regarded by many as England’s best batsman behind Yorkshire team-mate Joe Root, Brook has had a disappointing international summer by his standards, so there is some individual pressure on him as well as the expectation of guiding his side to a series win over Australia.

Brook told the PA news agency: "I want to get a hundred every innings, but it's not going to happen, is it?

“Professional sport is not easy and they call it Test cricket for a reason. It is a bloody tough test.

"If you have a few low scores, you start thinking about different things and your technique and whatever.

“I'm just going to go out there against Australia, watch the ball as closely as I can and play on instinct."

Brook, though, has warned against any of his side looking to strike a psychological blow in these five matches in the space of 11 days ahead of the Ashes Down Under in just over a year's time.

"That's a long way away yet," he added. "Personally, I'm just going to try and concentrate on each game and I'd probably urge everybody else to try and do that as well."

Test coach Brendon McCullum will also take charge of the white-ball side from January, but for now it has been left to Brook and Marcus Trescothick to prepare for this series.

One of McCullum’s assistants, Trescothick was an attacking opener for England and Somerset during his playing days, and he and Brook are determined to play positively against the Aussies.

The latter said: "I haven't spoken to Baz much, he's kind of left it up to me and Tres.

“But we’re both on the same page and a pretty similar page to Baz, so whatever you feel like doing, just do it.

"We want to go out there, be entertaining, excite the crowd, take the game on, try to take wickets and put the pressure on their bowlers.

“In the field, we want to the lads to try to influence the game as much as they can."