On a pitch promising plenty of bounce and pace, strike bowler Michael Kasprowicz believes Australia's tall and in-form pacemen will give them the edge over Sri Lanka in the second Test which gets underway in Cairns on Friday.

Apart from Nuwan Zoysa, who stands as high as Jason Gillespie, Sri Lanka's pace bowlers are relatively small with Chaminda Vaas and the pint-sized Lasith Malinga several centimetres shorter than Kasprowicz and fellow Australian paceman Glenn McGrath.

In recent years, particularly in the one-day arena, Australia has proved Sri Lanka has a distinct distaste for short-pitched bowling and the tourists are likely to cop a testing work out in that area at Cairns.

"Our bowlers have a bit more height than theirs and if there's some bounce there we're more likely to find it," Kasprowicz said.

But the Queensland quick, playing in his home state for the first time in more than five years, warned against getting too carried away with the bounce on offer.

Last year in Cairns, Australia regularly fired short deliveries which soared above the heads of the diminutive Bangladeshi batsmen, who defied Australia by batting through the first day after being sent in for what most people predicted would be a carnage.

"With good bounce and carry it's important to get the ball a touch fuller," Kasprowicz said.

"Our game plan is to hit the deck hard as the Sri Lankans are used to wickets having lower (bounce)."

Sri Lankan opener Sanath Jayasuriya was unperturbed by the Australian pace threat despite having suffered a broken hand courtesy of a Brett Lee bouncer in the 2003 World Cup.

"It's a good wicket - we'll play our natural game, there's nothing to worry about, we should do our own thing, just go ahead and bat," Jayasuriya said confidently.

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