Aussies search for bowling enforcer for third Test Is Mitchell Starc the intimidating force Australia needs? AUSTRALIA are about to shuffle their deck to come up with a perfectly respectable bowling attack for the third Ashes Test, but where is the fire-breathing dragon? James Pattinson's breakdown has seen a sudden end to Australia's dream that this would be the tour when he emerged as the new bruiser of Australian fast bowling, an intimidating spearhead, the rattling sabre of the next generation. Australia's bowlers have performed excellently - with bat and ball - in the first two Tests despite being cruelly let down by the failings of their batting top order. But the pressure remains squarely on their broad and weary shoulders not simply to look England in the eye but to try and stare them down in the last three Tests. The intimidation level of Australia's bowlers understandably wavered in the second Test at Lord's when the batting top order vanished without trace to leave the bowlers too tough a task to salvage the match. The bouncer count to the top order seemed down. Body language remained solid but far from intimidating. You can understand it because the bowlers were trapped in a deep dark hole that was not of their own making. The big question now is can the bowlers rise again and perform a rescue operation that would make the raising of the Titanic seem like plucking a goldfish from a pond. Australia do have the twin pillars of Peter Siddle - a bankable force who just keeps coming - and the exceptional Ryan Harris, whose skills are as exquisite as any pace bowler in the world, but the search continues for a long-term enforcer. When Australia are at their best against England they are led by a bowling aggressor who intimidates batsmen simply through the force of his personality. English batsmen used to say they could feel Shane Warne's eyes burning a hole in their helmets when he was doing nothing more than standing at the top of his mark and tossing a ball from one hand to the other. The great Glenn McGrath would also work over his man psychologically, sometimes with a cheeky, dismissive smile as if to say ``I have got you pal. Merv Hughes used to be preceded down the wicket by waves of hostility, as was Dennis Lillee. Hughes' gift was that he could intimidate opposition sides even when his own team was going backwards. It is a rare skill and something you either have or you don't. One of the problems with not selecting a maverick talent like Mitchell Johnson is that Australia lacks the wildcard enforcer who occasionally unleashes a cannonball from nowhere that rattles ribs or cracks knuckles. The choice of the third bowler - Mitchell Starc or Jackson Bird - could be decisive. Bird looks like the prototype English seamer who can thump away on a length until something gives while Starc is wayward at times, brilliant at others but his Test average of 33 runs per wicket says he is still a work in progress.