Been having a good chuckle at those having a whinge about McKay and his slower balls. He bowled at the death and his last 3 overs (overs 45, 47 and 49 of the innings), when he bowled the majority of them, went for just 16 runs (compared to Starc's last 3, which went for 30, for instance, at the same time).
Less than a run a ball at the death is bloody good. Over 45, when they needed quick runs (52 off 36 balls), was the over where he bowled 6 slower balls (what many are complaining about) yet he went for just 1 run and got a wicket! Talk about hard to please! He then started his next over with two more slower balls and they played and missed at those two as well. So that was 8 slower balls in a row for 1 run and a wicket! And some on here are complaining about that! (And for the record he bowled 10 slower balls in a row, not 24, as I'm sure will soon become "fact" here, if it continues to be mentioned, without correction.) It wasn't until he bowled a fast one that they finally got him away to the boundary.
The slower ball was working brilliantly and they were struggling to lay bat on it, as they were consistently about a foot or so outside off stump, meaning they were dipping (from a great height, as Clint is tall) and landing at an awkward angle to reach and then bouncing high with the topspin. Damn hard to hit out there and he is amazingly consistent with it, meaning they can easily set fields to him. As they mentioned last night in commentary, Clarke had the field set for the slower ball. If he then threw in more fast ones, as some are suggesting here (even though they scored just 4 runs and lost a wicket off the 10 consecutive slower balls), they would have been vulnerable, as the field was set up to protect shots played to slower balls, not fast ones (as evidenced by the first faster ball after the 10 slower ones going for 4).
The simple fact is that what he was doing was working and given that Starc was going for plenty at the other end, it was essential to us keeping them below our score. I dare say if they had managed to work out how to lay bat on the slower ones we would have changed our approach, though, but last night there was no particular need to.