"It's up to us to continue that form and that responsibility falls on these players. It's an exciting responsibility."
Broad leads a much-changed team from the Test series with only Joe Root and Steven Finn having also played in the Ashes.
Hampshire batsman Michael Carberry could make an England return on his home ground for the first time since winning his only international cap in the Test arena against Bangladesh three years ago.
Carberry was the second-highest runscorer in this season's Friends Life t20 but faces a tough task to break up the opening partnership of Alex Hales and Michael Lumb.
And with the likes of Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara and Jo Buttler behind them Broad thinks England's batsmen can overpower the seventh-ranked Australians.
"It's an exciting line-up and there are some powerful players," he said.
"It's great as a captain to know you have that firepower in the side.
"We'll be better the more we play together and getting experience and dovetail. You watch some of the partnerships that Alex Hales and Lumb have had and the way Morgs strikes it and the way Jos has finished games; there's a real belief in that changing room that we can set a huge target or chase a huge target down.
"That's a good place to be as a Twenty20 side and it's great for English cricket to have so many exciting Twenty20 talents."
Australia Twenty20 captain George Bailey denied his side's barren run was playing on their minds, as they look to exact a measure of revenge for the Ashes.
"They say winning is a habit and I tend to agree with that," he said.
"Stating the obvious but you don't go out and try and win any more.
"There were none of those games since February where we thought we've won one recently so we won't try and win this one.
"I think that is more fodder for you guys than for us to deal with.
"It's pretty blatant what we want to do. We plan to win. It's the same regardless of what has happened in the past."
Edited by Thom Gibbs
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