England seek tour breakthrough
England will spend the next couple of days devising plans to derail the Australian juggernaut at least once this winter following the Twenty20 thrashing at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Captain Michael Vaughan, who conceded the giant size of the task in hand following the 77-run defeat, will sit down with coach Duncan Fletcher in a bid to mastermind a success, ahead of the Commonwealth Bank Series campaign - which gets under way on Friday.
"Australia in all areas of the game were a little bit better and that is something we are going to have to learn from," admitted Vaughan, who made 27 after making his first international appearance in 13 months. "But there is no reason why we can't try to compete and beat them in a few of these games."
He added: "Sometimes you have to accept you are playing a very powerful team and we have to make sure over the next couple of days we think up a strategy to try to build into the World Cup.
"We realise playing the number one one-day team in the world in their own backyard is going to be pretty difficult.
"When tough times come about that is when you need tough people and that is what we need from all the players. We need to get people into a good mental state for Friday's game."
Australia avenged the 100-run mauling at the Rose Bowl in 2005, which served as the entree to the summer's Ashes success, in clinical fashion as they hit an outstanding 14 sixes in a new Twenty20 international record score of 221 for five.
As has been the theme this winter, Ricky Ponting's men steamrollered mercilessly through their opponents, arguably more emphatically than before, leading Vaughan to marvel at their success.
"You have got guys hitting not just 10 yards over the boundary but clearing the ropes by 40 yards," he added. "That is powerful hitting, I don't know if they have got different bats to what we are using.
"Yes we could have thought a little bit better in the field, changed our pace, bowled the odd bouncer but in all three disciplines they were a bit better than us on the night."
