Australia spearhead Mitchell Johnson having a say against England even when it's not his day Mitchell Johnson celebrates the wicket of Stuart Broad. MITCHELL Johnson was the man of the match in the first two Tests. He's got some work to do in England's second innings in Perth if he is to make it a trifecta, yet Johnson can already claim the ball of the third Test after his swinging yorker, both brutal and beautiful, crunched the foot of Stuart Broad in front of middle stump on Sunday. Bowling from the Lillee-Marsh Stand end, the moustached left-armer, who credits much of his success to his tuition with Dennis Lillee, was the bowler the fans came to see. Australia's inevitable march towards regaining the Ashes this summer will always be remembered for Johnson's heroics. And it's likely history will note this summer as the point where the rollercoaster that is Johnson's career reached its highest point. Bowling at the other end on Sunday was a man without a moustache and without the fanfare, but whose contribution to the Australian attack has never been in question. Ryan Harris, a lion-hearted but injury-prone competitor, is now on the verge of completing what would have once been a pipedream - playing every Test of a five-match series. At 34, Harris is playing his seventh consecutive Test match for his country in an era where a string of promising fast bowlers a decade or more his junior are sidelined with injury. Should Australia wrap up the series in Perth as expected there will be strong consideration given to Harris skipping one of the remaining two Tests in Melbourne and Sydney. It's believed a detailed backroom plan drawn up by the sports scientists has Harris playing just four of the five Tests this summer. It's a fair bet Harris won't want any part of that sort of talk. "I've said all along I want to play five Tests but that might be taken out of my hands," he said earlier in the summer. It would be great if I can get through five Tests and that's what I'm aiming to do. Everybody pulls up sore but I know how to deal with it now. You either deal with the aches and pains or you don't, you give up, and I don't want to give up. I want to play as long as I can. I'm just loving it. A man who would rather bowl until he dropped than be 'managed', Harris defied many doubters who didn't think he could push through the pain barrier to play in the Third Test. Instead, he finished with 3/48 on Sunday, going his hardest as the temperature reached its high of 37C. It was Harris who ensured there would be no miracle climb off the canvas from the tourists, dismissing Ian Bell, Australia's chief tormentor in the recent series in England, to strike the first blow of the day. Bell was gone in the third over of the morning, following a successful lbw challenge after umpire Marais Erasmus had turned down the appeal. Harris followed it with the wicket of Tim Bresnan caught behind, to go with the scalp of opener Michael Carberry on the second day.