its enough to give u goosbumps, although I worry that comparing 20/20 matches to test matches....

without Warnie they might play 4 quicks... (feel sorry for MacGill, nah, fuck him, lets go pace and steam roll the Indians!)

Andrew Symonds blasts 85no in Aussie's 54-run win


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Jon Pierik
December 11, 2007 12:00am

SHAUN Tait may force Australia to abandon tradition and unleash four fast bowlers in the Boxing Day Test after cricket's "wild thing" helped to flatten New Zealand in last night's Twenty20 clash.
Tait was simply awesome in his return to international cricket after elbow problems, claiming two wickets in his first three balls to finish with 2-22 off four overs as Australia clinched a 54-run win with nine balls to spare in Michael Clarke's first match as skipper.

Bankrolled by an unbeaten 85 off 46 balls from Andrew Symonds, his highest score in this form of the game, the Australians surged to what they felt was an average total of 6-186 at the WACA Ground.
But their four-man pace artillery ensured it was more than enough as the stunned tourists were bundled out for 132.

Apart from Jacob Oram's unbeaten 66 off 31 balls, the Black Caps had no answer to the pace attack which flourished on a Perth pitch which has finally regained its hostility.

Spearhead Brett Lee (2-17) and young gun Mitchell Johnson (2-19) were also in fine form, while Queensland debutant Ashley Noffke (3-18) had a night to remember.

Selection chairman Andrew Hilditch last week all but declared spinner Brad Hogg would play in the Boxing Day Test against India at the MCG but that decision may now have to be reviewed.

Super-slinger Tait is clearly breathing fire and the Indians, coming off a home Test series on lifeless pitches, traditionally struggle against pure pace.

MCG curator Tony Ware has already promised to serve up a lively deck to suit the quicks.

Tait was delighted with his form in his first match back for Australia since the World Cup.

"I wasn't sure how fast I was but it came out all right."

Lee last night set the tone with the first ball of New Zealand's innings when he had Lou Vincent on the hop with sheer pace and bounce and induced a mistimed pull shot which was snapped up by Adam Gilchrist. Lee then jagged open another crack when Brendon McCullum was beaten by speed and he, too, top-edged a pull.

The pain got worse for the tourists when Tait, arguably the world's quickest bowler, took charge.
Young Black Caps batsman Jamie How almost looked frightened when he gloved a short delivery which then climbed on Gilchrist and forced the gloveman to spectacularly take two bites at the ball before he claimed the catch.

The sell-out crowd of 17,344 was in rapture two balls later when Ross Taylor was slow to react to Tait's searing pace and he played-on for a duck.

Gilchrist best summed up Tait's devastating spell.

"The Wild Thing has been unleashed," he said.

Symonds was in superb form with the bat and scorched to his half-century off just 26 balls.

Cricket's biggest hitter slugged three sixes and seven boundaries and enthralled everyone with his brute power.

But Symonds' night ended on a worrying note when he left the field late in New Zealand's innings after re-injuring his right ankle.
He initially hurt the joint on day two of the second Test against Sri Lanka in Hobart and took no further part in the match.

Australia was also happy with the form of debutant batsmen Luke Pomersbach (15 off seven) and Adam Voges (26 off 20).

West Australian Pomersbach was told only 30 minutes before play that he was in the team, after Brad Hodge hurt his back in the dressing room and was forced to sit out.

Voges shared in an 80-run stand of just 42 balls with Symonds which turned the game Australia's way.