Aussie pace attack rules the world

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IT'S the simplest and most effective way of ruling the cricket world.

Load your team with top quality nasty fasties, sit back and enjoy the carnage.

It's a formula that's easy to dream about but hard to put in place.

But Australia, through patience and planning, has managed to crack the code with a group of fast bowlers who have carried them to the top of the world and should keep them there for some time.

Mitchell Johnson was back to his best in the World Cup final. Source: News Corp Australia

Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and James Faulkner simply swarmed New Zealand, not simply through pace but poise, with swing and slower balls and yorkers that dipped through groping defences.

And the last three should be around for the next world Cup as well.

By the time the visitors had their dinner break their batsmen felt like Kiwi tourists who had wandered into a dark alley on their first night in Melbourne and emerged with a black eye and no wallet.

James Faulkner claimed match of the man honours after taking three crucial wickets. Source: AFP

New Zealand were a major disappointment in a match which was the reversal of so many of those lopsided rugby Tests between the two nations where the Wallabies turn up hoping to win and All Blacks simply knew they would.

The Kiwis prepared for everything in this tournament except the match that mattered most.

They had not played a 50 over game in Australia for six years until. It seemed longer.

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From the moment their captain Brendon McCullum had three airswings in a row off the only balls he faced from Starc — the last of which bowled him — they looked the overawed first time finalists they were.

McCullum's debonair strokeplay has been a highlight of the tournament but yesterday he was like the digger who galloped from the trenches randomly shooting at thin air only to be greeted by an enemy tank.

Josh Hazlewood nailed down his spot after several solid performances. Source: Getty Images

Starc had been in world class form all tournament.

At the very least he deserved one watchful over before McCullum tried to hit him out of the world's biggest cricket stadium.

Sometimes batsmen who resemble rabbits caught in the spotlight can find themselves looking at everything but the ball and Australia did well to bowl full and straight as some Kiwi batsmen who simply missed. Four made ducks.

This World Cup chugged along honourably without ever quite catching fire.

The epic semi-final between South Africa and New Zealand was the best match and a true show-stopper but the other six finals were all one-sided.

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Australia's victory, as lopsided as it was, represented a fitting end to the tournament.

It was almost as if the gods of cricket, after watching batsmen destroy all in their path for the last five weeks, decided to had the title to the group of bowlers who best bucked the trend.

Australia is tomorrow set to name a squad for the West Indian and Ashes tours as well as its new contract list.

Michael Clarke's retirement from 50-over cricket means he may lose his No 1 ranking on the contract list.

Steve Smith could be the new top dog and who could argue after his Bradmanesque summer.

Such is the potency of Australia's fast men it deserves to start favourite for the Ashes despite losing its past three series in England.

Bring it on.


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