I doubt there is a cricket ground in the world that has more bitter-sweet memories for me than Headingley.

I still wake up in cold sweats about what happened there in 1981, when we were so far in front and forced England to follow-on. Then lost.

We also lost there in 1985, but Headingley in 1989 started the renaissance of Australian Test cricket and by 1993 we absolutely cleaned England up.

However, that famous 1981 match still rankles. It was one of those unlosable games. You just cannot believe what unfolded.

It made a legend out of Ian Botham. He'd packed his bags, checked out the hotel, then rocked out to bat when they were absolutely no chance.

I suppose that was when he was at his most dangerous. He couldn't care less. He just sung from the two-bob seats, playing and missing and nicking balls over the slips. Then he started to middle a few.

Even though we were way in front, it was amazing how the momentum changed in a couple of hours. Before we knew it the heebie-jeebies crept in and we all got out at a rapid rate.

I remember sitting on the balcony for half an hour after that game with a real feeling of nausea in my guts as to how we could possibly have lost.

It took a long time to exorcise those demons, but we did that during the 1989 first Test with a team that no one rated.

Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh scored their first Test hundreds, an annoying young bloke called Merv Hughes shook them up a bit and a couple of old heads, Terry Alderman and Geoff Lawson, bowled England out.

Such is the nature of Headingley, in '89 England captain David Gower put us in and we played four fast bowlers for the only time on that tour.

I believe that is what Australia must do again in this Test to level the series. We have to take a few risks to recover from 1-0 down with two to play.

We've just got to play close to 100 per cent, which I don't think we've achieved on tour.

My knowledge of Headingley is a bit dated because I haven't been there for a few years. But I found it to be one of those grounds where if it's overcast the ball moves around, if it's sunny the pitch is pretty flat.

It has been a bit better to bat on in recent times, but my gut feeling is that we should go in with four fast bowlers.

Australia has dominated the stats in this series, with six of the seven century makers and four of the five leading bowlers. Yet the numbers don't tell the true story. It is a matter of when you get the runs and wickets that counts.

You can have one bad session in a Test and it can cost you. Australia lost 6-49 after tea on the second day at Lord's and was never really in the game after that.

England took 20 wickets in the second Test at Lord's and won the Test.

We haven't done that yet.

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