<p>While the slow nature of the pitches in the sub-continent may not always encourage out and out pace bowling, Johnson fired a first salvo at the Indians, saying they were going to exploit the home batsmen’s perceived weakness against the short-pitched stuff. <br /><br />“We always go out there and do our job,” he said, even as he cautioned opponents not to disregard the Australian spinners. “We look at trying to get the ball to reverse, trying to use our change-ups. We’re still going to try and bowl short balls over here. We know that especially a lot of the Indian batsmen aren’t too keen on it. We’ll stick to our plans when we’re out there.”<br /><br />The return of Lee to the squad has provided both balance and teeth to Aussie bowling. “I think we work pretty well together,” Johnson opined on Saturday. “Obviously, there was a lot of talk about us leaking too many runs. Lee did an exceptional job through that one-day series (against England) as you saw. With that experience, I think it’s going to help myself and Shaun through this tournament. It probably showed towards the end of the one-day series.”<br /><br />While there is an emphasis on a larger role for spinners, given the nature of wickets in the sub-continent, Australia appear to be giving more thrust to pacers. Lee and Tait are capable of bowling on the higher side of 140, while Johnson, coming first-change, is capable of maintaining the pressure. <br /><br />“Personally, whether I bowl first-change or second-change (it doesn’t matter), I enjoy the fact that Brett and Shaun get to run with that new ball and do their job. Shaun bowls very fast and likes to bowl that short ball. I think it could work over here. So we’re in a pretty good position with our bowling attack. We can all bowl at between 140 and 150 kmph. Shaun and Brett can even bowl over that. No one really is too keen on facing anything like that. We’d be one of the only teams going around like that. So it’d be a bonus for us,” he explained. <br /><br />Johnson also stressed the need to be smart without sacrificing pace. “We’ve got an aggressive bowling attack. We’ll have to sit down and look at tomorrow with our practice game and see if it works. If not, go and look at what else we can do. But we’re going to be smart about what we’re going to do out there. Look at the last Test series here, I think we did a pretty good job with the bowling. We just have to be smart about our bowling but we’re still going to be aggressive,” he stated.<br /></p>
<p>While the slow nature of the pitches in the sub-continent may not always encourage out and out pace bowling, Johnson fired a first salvo at the Indians, saying they were going to exploit the home batsmen’s perceived weakness against the short-pitched stuff. <br /><br />“We always go out there and do our job,” he said, even as he cautioned opponents not to disregard the Australian spinners. “We look at trying to get the ball to reverse, trying to use our change-ups. We’re still going to try and bowl short balls over here. We know that especially a lot of the Indian batsmen aren’t too keen on it. We’ll stick to our plans when we’re out there.”<br /><br />The return of Lee to the squad has provided both balance and teeth to Aussie bowling. “I think we work pretty well together,” Johnson opined on Saturday. “Obviously, there was a lot of talk about us leaking too many runs. Lee did an exceptional job through that one-day series (against England) as you saw. With that experience, I think it’s going to help myself and Shaun through this tournament. It probably showed towards the end of the one-day series.”<br /><br />While there is an emphasis on a larger role for spinners, given the nature of wickets in the sub-continent, Australia appear to be giving more thrust to pacers. Lee and Tait are capable of bowling on the higher side of 140, while Johnson, coming first-change, is capable of maintaining the pressure. <br /><br />“Personally, whether I bowl first-change or second-change (it doesn’t matter), I enjoy the fact that Brett and Shaun get to run with that new ball and do their job. Shaun bowls very fast and likes to bowl that short ball. I think it could work over here. So we’re in a pretty good position with our bowling attack. We can all bowl at between 140 and 150 kmph. Shaun and Brett can even bowl over that. No one really is too keen on facing anything like that. We’d be one of the only teams going around like that. So it’d be a bonus for us,” he explained. <br /><br />Johnson also stressed the need to be smart without sacrificing pace. “We’ve got an aggressive bowling attack. We’ll have to sit down and look at tomorrow with our practice game and see if it works. If not, go and look at what else we can do. But we’re going to be smart about what we’re going to do out there. Look at the last Test series here, I think we did a pretty good job with the bowling. We just have to be smart about our bowling but we’re still going to be aggressive,” he stated.<br /></p>
