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<\/p>\nWith Pat Cummins\u2019 return date uncertain, Boland will be squarely in the sights of England\u2019s batters early in the Ashes, and his ability to target the stumps \u2013 six of his eight victims against NSW were bowled or lbw \u2013 will be challenged.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThat\u2019s been a big part of my game since years ago at the MCG when the wicket was pretty flat and we had to work out ways of how we\u2019re going to get wickets,\u201d Boland said. \u201cMy best way with my action and style of bowling (is) that I angle into the stumps.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s really important for me. I haven\u2019t got the bounce a Hazlewood does or Pat does, and I haven\u2019t got the pace of Starcy, so it\u2019s really important for me to be accurate. I know when we go into a bowling meeting we all come out laughing that it\u2019s top of off and the occasional bouncer, I don\u2019t think anything will really change from that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve pretty much played against all these guys before, so we roughly know our plans, and we\u2019ll just be honing in on them.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for the fact he may be required to front up for as many as five Tests this summer at the age of 36, Boland was confident that the calendar prepared for this edition of the Ashes made it plausible.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf need be I should be able to get through it,\u201d Boland said. \u201cThere\u2019s quite long breaks between the first three Tests, so the only time we\u2019ll really get tested is between Tests four and five where there\u2019s only a four-day break.<\/p>\n
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Scott Boland thinks he\u2019s got Ben Stokes lbw at Leeds.Credit: Getty<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year we had a three-day break and learned a bit through that about what needs to happen for the body to get moving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t feel overly good the other day, but I had one really good spell and broke the game open, and we got the win. So it gives me a lot of confidence going in over the next three weeks to have a little break, refresh the body a bit and then I\u2019ve got specific things I want to practice and work on.\u201d<\/p>\n
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One man Boland is hopeful of having as a reinforcement is his fellow Indigenous fast man Brendan Doggett, who is expected to return to the Shield for South Australia next round after a hamstring strain.<\/p>\n
Boland was speaking because the Melbourne Cricket Club had confirmed the extension of a philanthropic partnership with Cricket Australia\u2019s Indigenous pathway teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019d be awesome, we\u2019ve seen the skill he\u2019s got,\u201d Boland said of Doggett. \u201cI first played with Brendan in this program five or six years ago now, so he\u2019s progressed really well. I think he\u2019s going to be close to being one of the next fast bowlers in line.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Pat Cummins\u2019 return date uncertain, Boland will be squarely in the sights of England\u2019s batters early in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-231391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}