Lucky George better for the run

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GEORGE Bailey may be Australia's lucky charm.

He played in a resounding win on debut after many of his team mates spent almost all year without success.

Australia's nine Tests without a victory is one of the worst sequences in this country's history so Bailey jokes he's a pretty popular bloke in the dressing room at the moment.

"They rub me," Bailey said with a broad smile.

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"That was pretty surreal," he said about the win. "It brought home how special it was."

It contrasted with another of Australia's late call-ups, Chris Rogers, who went six Tests without a win before basking in Brisbane's 381-run first Test triumph.

"I really enjoyed the week," Bailey said of his first as a Test cricketer.

"It was a fantastic result and particularly seeing how hard those guys had worked for so many months without a Test win, to see the happiness and to be part of that was pretty special.

"It would have been nice to get a couple more runs in the first innings. Hopefully I'm like a race horse, better for the run."

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Bailey reinforced what many who watch Test cricket already believe that overrates could easily be improved, given Sheffield Shield sides must bowl 96 overs, compared to a Test match's 90 in a day.

"The hardest thing I found, certainly in the first innings, was the tempo of the game," said Bailey

"It sounds a little bit silly but it goes a bit slower than coming up from Sheffield Shield.

"It felt like it was longer between overs and longer between balls and having spent a bit of time at short leg looking at how the other guys take their time between balls and take their time to face up that was the big learning curve for me, getting the tempo right."

At 31 Bailey is the oldest Australian batsman to debut for 34 years and after a poor first innings his second innings cameo of 34 included more sixes (2) than fours (1).

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Following on from centurions David Warner and Michael Clarke, Bailey continued what seemed the obvious tactic of murdering spinner Graeme Swann, one of England's most pivotal bowlers, but he claimed the plan was broader than that.

"We certainly wanted to keep bringing their best bowlers back into the game and try and tire them out. That worked," he said.

"Whether that's the same here, it might turn a bit more and reverse swing can play a part here.

"If they happen to be doing that (reverse swing) well and Swannie is trying to tie up one end then it's probably the best option to try and keep the scoreboard ticking along."

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