Cairns (Australia), July 29: Glenn Mcgrath accepts he has been supplanted as the leading fast bowler in Australia by Jason Gillespie. Captain Steve Waugh dubbed Gillespie "the best quick bowler in the world at the moment" after Australia's innings and 98-run win over Bangladesh here yesterday to take the series 2-0. Waugh said it was not automatic that Mcgrath would be given the privilege of bowling downwind with the new ball. "Jason will bowl more down breeze in the future - it's about time we shared that around," Waugh said. "He's probably the best quick bowler in the world at the moment and he deserves to bowl down breeze."

Mcgrath, 33 and five years older than Gillespie, today accepted the changing of the guard.

"Jason, if anyone, has been unlucky in the past," Mcgrath said.

"It was only a matter of time before he started to take wickets so with the three of us there i can't see why we shouldn't be rotated according to circumstances. I'm comfortable with that."

Mcgrath even forecast the change at the start of the ashes series against England last summer when he said: "I think he (Gillespie) has probably been the pick of our bowlers for quite some time without the success ... But if he keeps going as well as he has been he'll take plenty of wickets, so it's good for the future of Australian cricket."

Bureau Report