Boof urges quicks not to waste new ball

Darren Lehmann has challenged his pacemen to attack more shrewdly with the new ball as they seek to rattle New Zealand and clinch the three-Test series.

Australia cruised to a 208-run win in Brisbane but it wasn't a polished performance.

Lehmann lamented his side's fielding at the Gabba and pinpointed their new-ball bowling as something to improve on before the second Test starts on Friday in Perth.

Tom Latham and Martin Guptill put on opening stands of 56 and 44 in the first Test, the NZ pair taking the shine off the ball with little discomfort.

"They left well and made us work for it - but we've certainly got to get better in that area," Lehmann said.

"They had to play at less than half the balls with the new ball in the first 20 overs, so that's something we'll look at ... putting some more pressure on."

Peter Siddle has rejoined the group but national selectors are unlikely to change a winning side.

"We'll wait and see the wicket," Lehmann said.

"If it changes, it changes.

"But they got 20 wickets and I thought, in patches, they were very, very good ... so can't complain too much."

The debate still rumbles about the merits of having a new-ball combo of two left-armers.

They failed to strike early at the Gabba, but a bouncer-laden collapse of 4-16 on day three showed what's possible when Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc click.

"You'd want them to keep bowling like that," Lehmann said.

"I'm really pleased with their output, but I still think they can get better."

The national coach added the WACA could be an intimidating venue for NZ if Johnson, Starc and Josh Hazlewood were on song and fired up.

"Yeah, if our blokes get it right," he said.

"It was a really good wicket last year - it had some pace and bounce in it.

"It's certainly getting back to the old WACA, which is what everyone wants to see."

The 12-man squad travelled west on Tuesday, while the quicks never bowl the day before a Test.

It means Wednesday's session is the only opportunity for bowling coach Craig McDermott to work in the nets with his charges.

"We'll make them bowl," Lehmann said.

"They always bowl two days out from a game ... then the day before, they'll look at some footage."

There were no winners in the Sheffield Shield debacle at the SCG on the weekend, but Victorian Siddle arguably suffered most.

"We would have loved for him to bowl, but it is what it is," Lehmann said of the side's 12th man at the Gabba.

Siddle should get his chance later this summer, with the team's medical staff managing the niggles and workloads of the pacemen.

However, Lehmann wouldn't rule out the prospect of Johnson, Starc and Hazlewood playing all six Tests.

"It'll get down to how much bowling (they do) ... how long Test matches go for," he said.

"If they're not 100 per cent, they don't play.

"And sometimes, 100 per cent might be sore but OK."