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KEVIN Pietersen kindly exposed Mitchell Johnson's two card trick on Friday.
It's an oldie but a goodie, bowl a brutal bouncer that messes with the batsman's mind then pitch the ball up and knock him over.
Now someone playing his 103rd Test may have seen this trick before against genuine pace, not that there are many seriously fast bowlers in modern cricket.
Pietersen had already witnessed Johnson's one card trick with his opening delivery of the second day at the MCG, with England struggling to remain in the fourth Test.
Bowling the second over of the morning, Johnson delivered a searing short ball to useful tailender Tim Bresnan which he meekly fended to George Bailey at short leg.
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Four balls later Johnson bowled an even nastier delivery to Pietersen which followed the right hander, forcing him to back away.
Then Pietersen had a brain explosion which, even for him, was volcanic, stepping away and having a wild slog at a ball which bowled him.
That was two wickets in five balls during another devastating Johnson spell which have suddenly appeared at crucial times this summer.
It is impossible to have the foggiest notion what is going on in Pietersen's head but the standard theory is that he was unsettled by the short ball.
It is blindingly obvious that many of his team mates have been at times during this series.
This was highlighted by a new victim, Jonny Bairstow, late on Boxing Day.
Brought in to replace the hopelessly out of form Matt Prior, who has been stitched up by Johnson at times during the first three Tests, Bairstow proved to be exhibit A with how sheer pace can disturb a batsman.
Two balls after top-edging a six off Johnson, Bairstow was well back in his crease when a full delivery went through a gap between bat and pad so wide a herd of cattle could have made the same journey untroubled.
Mitchell Johnson celebrates another Ashes wicket. Pic: Phillip Hillyard Source: News Limited
Stuart Broad is another who tries to hide in his crease. Having badly bruised one of Broad's feet in Perth Johnson appeared to be aiming for the other when the England fast bowler was compressively leg before wicket.
That gave Johnson a wicket to wicket spell of 5-14 from 6.5 overs with the second new ball either side of a good sleep.
It wasn't quite as devastating as his Adelaide spell, when Johnson claimed 6-16 from 26 balls to set that Test up for Australia.
He now has 28 wickets in the series at a most remarkable average of under 15 apiece.
This is more than any Australian bowler has taken in any series since Shane Warne claimed a gigantic 40 wickets in England during 2005.
And it is the most by an Australian fast bowler since McGrath took 32 wickets in England during 2001.
Even more impressively, it is the best by an Australian fast bowler at home since Craig McDermott's 32 wickets against a similarly beleaguered England in 1994-95.
So now the recently forgotten Johnson sits on 233 career wickets, moving past Ray Lindwall into ninth place on the list of Australia's all-time wicket-takers.
England must be surprised.
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