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ADELAIDE Strikers enforcer Shaun Tait and protégé Kane Richardson have pledged to make life tougher for George Bailey in Hobart on Sunday than England paceman Jimmy Anderson this Ashes summer.
Test No.6 Bailey (39 not out) smashed a record 28 runs off one Anderson (0/105) over in Australia's resounding, 150-run, third-Test win against England in Perth last week.
Tait, 30, laments he can only sling one bouncer an over at Bailey in the Big Bash League opener at Bellerive.
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"He is a great player, we have to play him this week but Twenty20 will be a whole different ball game. It will be a whole lot different to a Test match," said former Test speedster Tait.
Hurricane's skipper Bailey will have less time to set up - and margin for error - against Tait and Richardson's 150km/h missiles.
"We will have to put a bit of heat on him I reckon," said Tait.
Watching Mitchell Johnson devastate England has provided Tait with fresh impetus to press for a berth in Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad to Bangladesh next April.
"It gives you an inspiration to keep having a crack, I think I am in peak fitness," said Tait, who figured in Australia's 2010 T20 World Cup campaign in the Caribbean and 2011 one-day showpiece in India.
Richardson was signed for a $700,000 debut 2013 season with Indian Premier League franchise Pune Warriors.
Skippers Johan Botha and George Bailey face off ahead of Sunday's BBL clash. Source: News Limited
Tait believes new-ball partner Richardson, 22, will better his 10 wickets at 21 in the BBL last season - starting with an emphatic display against Hobart.
Tait vowed to blow away rivals inside the first six overs this tournament and leave spin twins Johan Botha and Adam Zampa to mop up the rest.
"Kane Richardson is one of the better Twenty20 bowlers going around at the moment in world cricket. There is a reason why he went for $700,000. He is dangerous," said Tait.
"I think we will have a good bowling attack. Michael Neser is in good form for Queensland in the one-day series."
Mumbai based Tait is an IPL stalwart with Rajasthan Royals and took Strikers teammate "Richo" under his wing on the subcontinent.
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"He was playing for Pune and we played against each other a few times. A mate of mine has a restaurant down there in Pune so we got him out of his hotel room and away from the PlayStation a few times," said Tait.
"We got him used to Indian conditions, I think it opened his eyes up a fair bit. I think he got a bit bored there."
Tait recalled the days mentoring Richardson as a junior but has been impressed by the Northern Territory export's rapid progress to an Australian one-day debut against Sri Lanka in Adelaide during January.
"He's getting paid more than all of us now, turned into a big lad, has the tatts," joked Tait.
"He has grown a beard which I have nailed him about but he is a good lad, a talented player."
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