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AUSTRALIA believe Mitchell Johnson has England's batsmen paralysed by fear after he surpassed pace great Merv Hughes with a nine-wicket hatchet job at the Gabba.
Johnson claimed man-of-the-match honours with a haul of 9-103, including a second-innings five-wicket blitz that saw him overtake Hughes on Australia's all-time wicket-taking list.
Big Merv was ranked 11th with 212 wickets at 28.38 but Johnson finished the first Test demolition with 214 and is set to leapfrog Clarrie Grimmett (216) into Australia's top 10.
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That feat perhaps best crystallises the resurgence of Johnson, who could surge past 300 Test scalps if he maintains the rampaging form that terrorised England's top order.
It was Johnson's first-innings dismissal of Jonathan Trott that set the tone for this Test and the Australians are adamant his 145km/h thunderbolts have the Poms spooked.
"The way Mitch bowled ... you can see it in their eyes that they weren't quite comfortable facing him so it was good fun," wicketkeeper Brad Haddin said.
Mitchell Johnson celebrates taking Graeme Swann's wicket. Picture: Cameron Spencer. Source: Getty Images
Johnson will never be Australia's Mr Consistent but he possesses a quality few contemporaries share in world cricket _ the ability to bowl terrifying express pace.
And it was fitting he should celebrate his renaissance at the Gabba. It was in Brisbane some 15 years ago that Johnson was a raw quick from Townsville who arrived in town to be mentored by Australian pace icon Dennis Lillee.
Fittingly, at his nadir last year, it was Lillee who helped rebuild Johnson and refine the action that saw him describe the left-armer as a once-in-a-generation quick.
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"I have to give a big thanks to Dennis. I have been able to keep in touch with him since he saw me when I was 17 when I first came to Brisbane for a fast bowling clinic here," he said.
"To have a legend of the game in my corner and to be able to talk to about cricket things is an amazing thing."
Asked last night if he saw fear in the English batsmen's eyes, Johnson smiled and baulked at adding fuel to the inferno created by David Warner.
But he promised one thing _ he would continue his bumper war in the second Test in Adelaide.
"I'll keep doing it. It's working," he said.
Of Trott, Johnson added: "He's been thinking about the short ball from what I have seen in the nets ... practising the short ones.
"There were a couple of nice ones zinging past his nose and as a fast bowler you give him a stare and look at his eyes and there might have been a bit of fear there."
England skipper Alastair Cook admitted the tourists struggled to handle Johnson's lively spells.
"We are going to go and look at how we will play him," he said.
"We have to be very honest with ourselves and how we are going to play him. You can't brush the issue. He has hurt us in this game and we are going to have to show our ability in the next game."
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