{"id":178324,"date":"2021-12-26T07:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T08:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=178324"},"modified":"2021-12-27T04:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T04:58:07","slug":"bowling-gamble-pays-off-for-rampant-aussies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=178324","title":{"rendered":"Bowling gamble pays off for rampant Aussies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia<\/a>'s aggressive bowling strategy paid huge dividends on a fantastic first day of the Boxing Day Test<\/a>, masterfully exploiting a hesitancy in the English<\/a> ranks to play shots.<\/p>\n

The quicks were direct and at the wickets for the most part, forcing shots from the visitors in an innings that saw nine of 10 batters dismissed via a catch, and the other LBW.<\/p>\n

"We tried to keep it really full in the first session. We tried to keep the stumps in play as much as possible," debutant Scott Boland said after day one.<\/p>\n

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"Their batters were pretty conscious of wanting to leave the ball, so we just tried to keep attacking them as much as we could."<\/p>\n

Although Boland bowled aggressively towards the English top order, he was made to wait a few hours before finally getting his first wicket when he trapped Mark Wood LBW.<\/p>\n

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"The only thing I was sort of doubting was if it was bouncing over, but the guys behind the wicket were certain it was hitting the stumps," he said.<\/p>\n

Boland said he was confident the ball hit the pad first, despite a lengthy review to determine the initial point of contact.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added a nice catch in the deep later on (his second of the day), in what was a solid first day with his new baggy green, presented to him that morning by injured quick Josh Hazlewood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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"It was a really special moment this morning, getting my baggy green off Josh Hazlewood. Even though I'm older than him, he's probably someone that as a bowler, I look up to," Boland said.<\/p>\n

"To get the cap off him was really nice, and to have my family there with me was really special."\u00a0<\/p>\n

Boland spoke of the pride he felt in becoming just the second man of Indigenous descent to play Test cricket, after Jason Gillespie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

"It means a lot to join a pretty small club, and hopefully it's just the start of something big for the Indigenous community with cricket," he said.<\/p>\n

"The Indigenous communities in AFL and rugby are so big, hopefully one day the Aboriginals in cricket can be just as big."<\/p>\n

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Australia's aggressive bowling strategy paid huge dividends on a fantastic first day of the Boxing Day Test, masterfully exploiting a hesitancy in the English ranks […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178328,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178324\/revisions\/178328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}