After watching England's quicks wobble Australia out with conventional swing, Ricky Ponting is urging his young pace attack to return the favour against England on Saturday night.
The visitors will be searching for quick wickets when, weather permitting, play resumes on day three of the third Test at Edgbaston.
England will start the day on 2-116, only 147 runs adrift of Australia's first innings total of 263, aiming to bat Ponting's side out of the game.
Not for the first time this series, Australia's batsmen crumbled against an England side inspired by former whipping boy James Anderson.
Anderson claimed his first five-wicket haul against Australia and, along with four wickets from unheralded team-mate Graham Onions, wreaked havoc on the tourists' line-up.
Unlike four years ago, this time reverse swing played no part in Australia's unravelling.
The outfield, still lush from plenty of rain in the past three weeks, is far from abrasive enough to rough the ball up sufficiently for reverse swing to come into effect, both teams said.
"They bowled well and got the ball swinging around more than it has done in the whole series," Ponting said.
He said Australia, trailing 1-0 in the five-match series, would approach the third day as if the Ashes depended on it.
"We approach every session that way, that's how much every session means to us," Ponting said.
"You saw this morning just how quickly a Test match and therefore a series can change."
The match had entered an important phase, Ponting said, as the ball - currently 36 overs old - was in a similar stage of deterioration to when Anderson and Onions pounced.
Unless the Duke ball was dampened, Ponting said, there would be no excuses for Australia not to be able to inflict similar damage.
"The trick of getting the ball to swing over here is getting the lacquer off quickly and getting to work on the leather," he said.
"As we've seen right through this series the brand new ball hasn't swung much at all."
"If we keep the ball nice and dry we can hopefully get it swinging as well."
"We saw tonight Mitchell (Johnson) get a few to swing and with similar cloud cover tomorrow we could do similar stuff to them."
There is a strong chance Australia will be greeted with similar skies but it's also likely to be raining, according to the weather bureau.
Showers have been forecast for both days of the weekend, while the outlook for Monday is even bleaker.
Anderson was not expecting any of Australia's bowlers, outside of Ben Hilfenhaus, to be able to extract the same swing the home side found with the Duke ball.
"I don't think they've bowled too much with the Duke ball before and they've only had a few weeks out here," he said.
"Hilfenhaus has swung the ball and has bowled really well throughout the series, and the other guys are just pretty much hit the deck bowlers and don't swing it too much."