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RETURNING pace guru Craig McDermott says getting the basics right will be a high priority for Australia's fast bowling battery.
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And he wants our paceman to be 'nailing the Poms.'
McDermott received enormous praise for his work with the national team and was a significant loss to its support network when he resigned from the job in May last year.
McDermott claimed he would be taking the same approach this time.
"It was the philosophy of we've got to get the ball swinging consistently," he said.
"I though Ryno (Ryan Harris) in particular did a good job in England and Sids (Peter Siddle) bowled pretty well.
"We've got to get our attack performing across the board like it did 18 months ago. That's my job, to get us back there knocking teams over regularly or if not grinding out Tests.
"I want to make sure we're bowling the right lengths mixed up with some really good bouncers and nailing the Poms as much as we can."
McDermott was reappointed as Test fast bowling coach yesterday after Cricket Australia performed a backflip.
A month after high performance manager Pat Howard ruled out recalling McDermott to a senior role, he announced the former champion quick would share the role.
McDermott is back in the Australia setup to work with the Test bowlers.
"I'm very keen, " McDermott said.
"It was very hard to watch the last 12 months away from the guys who I've become very close to as friends and mentors. It was very hard to watch us get beaten in the Ashes."
McDermott claimed there would be a lot of emphasis on getting the basics right.
"Addressing things like no balls at training. We've taken a couple of wickets on no balls in the last couple of series so we really need to take that seriously like I did when I was in the job previously," he said.
"There's no rocket science involved but making sure we do dot our i's and cross our t's and make sure we've got the fittest attack, which then comes into being about executing what we want to do time and time again and be relentless and boring and take lots of wickets."
Current bowling coach Ali De Winter, the former Tasmanian all-rounder, will remain one-day and Twenty20 bowling coach.
"Craig said he left for family reasons at the time and we haven't really reviewed that," Howard said last month.
"He works well with our under-19 program and we are very fortunate to have blokes like Craig involved at that level."
Yesterday Howard claimed that he had been in "constant dialogue" with McDermott.
"While it was always something that was a possibility it wasn't being discussed with Craig at the time," Howard said of McDermott's possible return.
"We've been looking at the systems the whole way through so it hasn't changed as much as it may appear."
McDermott, 48, was one of Australia's finest fast bowlers, claiming 291 wickets in 71 Test before a chronic knee injury ended his career.
He is one of just four Australians to have taken more than 200 Test and one-day wickets along with Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson.
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