JOHANNESBURG, Jan 29 (AFP) - England will be looking to their young guns as they seek to build on a Test series triumph in the first one-day international against South Africa at the Wanderers Sunday.

"We’re a pretty tired team," admitted England captain Michael Vaughan after his side had completed a 2-1 Test series win at Centurion Tuesday.

But he was confident that England would come out fresh for the start of a seven-match, one-day series. "We’ve got a lot of young guys coming into the one-day side," he said.

To underline his words, Ian Bell and Kevin Pietersen, both comparative international novices, took England to victory in their only one-day warm-up match against South Africa A in Kimberley Thursday.

Kabir Ali and Gareth Batty, two of the side’s least experienced bowlers, were mainly responsible for pegging back the South Africa A batsmen after the home side made a good start.

Vaughan, Andrew Strauss, Matthew Hoggard and Ashley Giles, some of the key performers in the Test series, missed Thursday’s match but are all likely starters together with one-day specialists like veteran bowler Darren Gough, all-rounder Paul Collingwood and youngsters like Bell and Pietersen.

Although they have climbed to number two in the world Test rankings, England are languishing in fifth place in the one-day international ratings despite reaching the final of the ICC Champions Trophy in England last September.

South Africa, meanwhile, have dropped into the one-day basement, ranked seventh after a disastrous 2004. Before hitting a slump in New Zealand last February, they had never been lower than second.

But they lost five successive matches in New Zealand and another five in Sri Lanka, then were eliminated at the group stage of the Champions Trophy, leading to the axing of coach Eric Simons.

New coach Ray Jennings has yet to take charge in a one-day international. He was appointed on a short-term contract which ends after a tour of the West Indies in May.

With the World Cup in 2007 identified as the major long-term goal for the South African team, Jennings will be keen to show that he can help add the innovative spark that has been missing from the side in one-day matches.

Whereas England’s one-day starting line-up is likely to show major changes from the Test team, the differences between South Africa’s Test and one-day sides are likely to be minimal, although big-hitting all-rounder Justin Kemp may get his first start in the national team in three years.

South Africa have dominated the one-day matches on two previous tours by England teams, winning nine and losing only two of 11 contests. This time around, it could be much closer.

Teams:

South Africa (from): Graeme Smith (captain), Adam Bacher, Nicky Boje, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis, Justin Kemp, Charl Langeveldt, Andre Nel, Makhaya Ntini, Ashwell Prince, Shaun Pollock, Jacques Rudolph.