With the marquee red-ball tournament 100 days, Australia pacer Scott Boland spoke to reporters in Melbourne and dismissed any disquiet over England’s fierce on-field behaviour.
Apart from Scott Boland, Mitchell Starc too starred with the ball, picking the quickest five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
The Aussie side’s captain Pat Cummins will endeavour to record another achievement to his and his team’s profile by beating the Protea team in the humongous game coming ahead.
Ravichandran Ashwin, who announced his retirement in middle of the BGT 2024-25, said that Scott Boland’s inclusion in the playing XI helped Australia a lot to win the series.
Notably, the veteran pacer closed third day’s play with the figures 0/86 in his 25 overs bowled so far.
Pat Cummins said that half of the side from the current Australian squad hasn’t won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and the players are a to tick this box in the ongoing series.
Scott Boland is likely to become a part of the Australian playing XI for the second BGT Test in place of an injured Josh Hazlewood.
The Australian Test squad added Michael Neser as injured Josh Hazlewood’s replacement, days ahead of the WTC Final.
Scott Boland bowled a length delivery which kept way too low and shattered the stumps of the batter.
In Boland’s absence, Australia might be compelled to bring in Michael Neser who played the second Test in place of Pat Cummins.
Although the match was well in the balance and could have gone either way had the English batters nullified the deficit without losing too many wickets, Starc & Co. had other ideas.