After winning the toss, Bailey said he hoped that the decision turns out to be a good one and also hoped that the pitch will get difficult to bat as the game progresses.
New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum too wanted to bat first and now looks forward for his bowlers to make use of the overhead conditions.
David Warner has reportedly had an altercation with Joe Root and the Aussie team management will decide on a disciplinary action against him. As for now, he has been left out of this clash.
Australia will again be without captain Michael Clarke as the star batsman continues to struggle with the latest recurrence of his longstanding back injury.
It will be a big test for the stand-in skipper George Bailey to turn Australia's fortunes around.
Defending champions Australia, who beat New Zealand in the 2009 Champions Trophy final, suffered a 48-run loss to hosts England at Edgbaston last week.
Australian bowlers Clint McKay, James Faulkner and Shane Watson did a decent job in restricting England to 269 when they were looking at a 300-plus score at one stage but they still need to add more sting to their attack.
The Aussie batsmen could not pose any threat to the England bowlers, who strangulated them with both pace and spin.
Barring skipper Bailey and all-rounder James Faulkner, none of the batsmen were up the mark. What was baffling was most of them got starts but later blew those away.
New Zealand, who have not played an ODI against Australia since a defeat at the 2011 World Cup in Nagpur, have lost five out of their last seven matches at this level against their trans-Tasman rivals.
New Zealand came into the tournament after a morale-boosting 2-1 series win over England and they would look to carry their good form.
The Kiwis come into the clash on the back of a nail-biting one-wicket win over Sri Lanka.
Left-arm medium pacer Mitchell McClenaghan, pace spearhead Kyle Mills and their part-time spinner Nathan McCullum did a wonderful job, sharing eight Sri Lankan wickets among them in their opener and skipper Brendon McCullum will expect a similar effort on Wednesday as well.
However, the Kiwis will have to work on their batting as they would not want the job to be left till the last man, the way it happened against the Sri Lankans.
New Zealand have an able opener in Martin Guptill, who smashed two consecutive hundreds in the England series, while their batting mainstay Ross Taylor also have been in good form ahead of the champions Trophy.
Brendon too on his day can demolish any attack but his batsmen panicked during their chase against Sri Lanka in the low-scoring match and this is one area, the skipper would want his team to improve.
Teams:
Australia: George Bailey (Capt.), Shane Watson, Matthew Wade, Phillip Hughes, Adam Voges, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Clint McKay, Xavier Doherty.
New Zealand: Brendon McCullum (Capt.), Luke Ronchi, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, James Franklin, Nathan McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Tim Southee, Kyle Mills, Mitchell McClenaghan.
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