Match starts 1430 BST Wednesday
England hope a series of one to ones with coach Duncan Fletcher will produce positive results in Wednesday's World Cup Super 8 game against Bangladesh.
Defeat by Australia has left them with a mountain to climb if they are to reach the semi-finals.
"It's probably going to go down to a [run-rate] calculation, but you don't want to go into that in great depth.
"We have to go out and beat Bangladesh, that's the first step and then we'll look at it from there," said Fletcher.
He believes England are very close to producing the kind of form which carried them to victory in the Commonwealth Bank Series tri-series in Australia.
"Somewhere along the line, we need the whole side to come together as a unit and everybody to put in a performance that we know we are capable of, and if we do that we know we're a dangerous side," Fletcher continued.
"It's mainly a mental thing, rather than a technical thing. It's how they think about it when they get out there in those crucial periods, but it's important we don't talk too much about it and cloud their thoughts."
England's bowling attack has been performing reasonably well and the chief concern at the moment is the lack of runs from skipper Michael Vaughan and Andrew Flintoff.
Vaughan is averaging only 13 in the tournament, and Fletcher said: "He probably just puts pressure on himself, knowing as captain he has to go out there and get runs.
"I believe he is a good one-day batsman, but he has got to get back to realising his true potential."
Flintoff, meanwhile, looked all at sea against Australia spinner Brad Hogg and can expect more of the same from a Bangladesh side including Mohammad Rafique and Abdur Razzak.
One batsman England do not need to worry about is Kevin Pietersen, whose 104 against Australia means he only needs 87 from the next two games to beat Zaheer Abbas's record of 2,000 runs in 45 one-day matches.
And they will take comfort from the fact that they won all seven previous meetings against Bangladesh, the last three on home soil during the 2005 NatWest Series.
But the Tigers have improved since then and they have been re-energised by a tremendous 67-run win over South Africa in their last game.
"The English team has some good players but they are not playing well at the World Cup, so it will not be impossible to beat them," captain Habibul Bashar said.
"The South Africa win has increased the confidence and morale in the team. Now we need to win three more matches to come into contention for a semi-final. The boys know it's hard work, but they are ready for it.
"If we can get the same kind of wicket as we had in Guyana, our spinners can repeat that [performance], but England also have some pretty good players who score runs against spinners."
England (from): M Vaughan (capt), I Bell, A Strauss, K Pietersen, P Collingwood, A Flintoff, R Bopara, P Nixon (wkt), S Mahmood, M Panesar, J Anderson, E Joyce, L Plunkett, J Dalrymple, S Broad.
Bangladesh (from): Habibul Bashar (capt), Javed Omar, Tamim Iqbal, Aftab Ahmed, Mohammad Ashraful, Saqibul Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim (wkt) Mashrafe bin Mortaza, Mohammad Rafique, Abdur Razzak, Syed Rasel, Shahriar Nafees, Farhad Reza, Rajin Saleh, Shahadat Hossain.
Umpires: S Taufel (Aus), S Bucknor (WI)
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