ENGLAND will spend the next couple of days devising plans to derail the Australian juggernaut at least once this winter following yesterday's Twenty20 thrashing at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Captain Michael Vaughan, who conceded the giant size of the task in hand following the 77-run defeat, will sit down with coach Duncan Fletcher in a bid to mastermind a success.

England's Commonwealth Bank Series campaign gets under way on Friday with a game against hosts Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, leaving Vaughan and Co just two days to come up with a way to bridge the gaping gulf in class from yesterday.

"Australia in all areas of the game were a little bit better and that is something we are going to have to learn from," admitted Vaughan, who made 27 after making his first international appearance in 13 months.

"Sometimes you have to accept you are playing a very powerful team and we have to make sure over the next couple of days we think up a strategy to try to build into the World Cup.

"We realise playing the No1 one-day team in the world in their own backyard is going to be pretty difficult.

"But there is no reason why we can't try to compete and beat them in a few of these games.

"When tough times come about that is when you need tough people and that is what we need from all the players.

"We need to get people into a good mental state for Friday's game."

Australia avenged the 100-run mauling at the Rose Bowl in 2005, which served as the entree to the summer's Ashes success, in clinical fashion as they hit an outstanding 14 sixes in a new Twenty20 international record score of 221-5.

As has been the theme this winter, Ricky Ponting's men steamrollered mercilessly through their opponents, arguably more emphatically than before, leading Vaughan to marvel at their success.

"You have got guys hitting not just 10 yards over the boundary but clearing the ropes by 40 yards," he added.

"That is powerful hitting, I don't know if they have got different bats to what we are using.

"Yes we could have thought a little bit better in the field, changed our pace, bowled the odd bouncer but in all three disciplines they were a bit better than us on the night."

Adam Gilchrist led the assault with five sixes in his 48, one landing in the top seats of the Bill O'Reilly Stand while half-a-dozen home batsmen cleared the rope.

Matthew Hayden began the fireworks as James Anderson bore the brunt, conceding 64 runs from his four overs.

"We had them under pressure right from the start," said Ponting. "Matty tried to ram home what he could as early as he could in the game.

"Some of our hitting was incredibly clean, hitting some of those sixes to the long side of the ground was skilful cricket."

Despite the defeat Vaughan was delighted at the way he and his troublesome right knee came through his first international match in more than a year.

"I felt pretty good," he said.

"But I have felt pretty good for a while."

Vaughan was full of praise for Australia's batsmen.

"Sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say their batting was very impressive, very destructive and very powerful."

Australia hit 14 sixes to England's one - a statistic which left Vaughan mischievously questioning whether they might have had some unfair advantage.

"They're using different bats. They need to have their bats drug-tested," he quipped.