In the not-too-distant past, the chant "If Thommo doesn't get you Lillee will" would rent the air when the Aussies were on the field. Now, with the turbo-charged Aussie bowling just about puttering along, the "Kangaroos" are relying on verbal ammunition to do the Indians in.
The greatest Australian team to leave the continent in recent years has run into a bit of a road block in the inscrutable Orient. The Aussies have not exactly moped, but whentthe ice-jackets and fluid diets have not helped, it is sledging that the Aussies hope will do the trick.