{"id":275466,"date":"2025-11-10T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275466\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:25:16","slug":"michael-vaughan-predicts-england-will-target-scott-boland-bazball-pat-cummins-replacements-ashes-schedule-perth-test-news-videos-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275466\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Vaughan predicts England will target Scott Boland, Bazball, Pat Cummins replacements, Ashes schedule, Perth Test, news, videos, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

English cricket legend Michael Vaughan has issued seamer Scott Boland with a big Ashes warning, declaring he will be targeted by a \u201cBazball\u201d barrage in the first Test.<\/p>\n

Boland is the clear-cut favourite to take Pat Cummins\u2019 position in the Australian XI, joining a star-studded bowling cartel that includes Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Nathan Lyon.<\/p>\n

According to Vaughan, who won an Ashes series as captain in 2005, Boland does suit the Perth conditions and could be a dangerous threat to the English top-order.<\/p>\n

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In a bid to dampen his ability, \u201cBazball\u201d could be out in full force.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the venues, Pat [Cummins] was undercooked last year in Perth and, probably for the first time, was not that great in Perth against India last year,\u201d Vaughan said to The Age <\/a>on Monday.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI guess, of all the venues, if you\u2019re going to leave Pat out, Perth is not a bad venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt brings in Scott Boland, a star bowler who hits the stumps, very similar to what we saw from Jasprit Bumrah last year \u2013 that skiddy kind of trajectory. <\/p>\n

\u201cOf all the venues, I think Boland\u2019s going to suit Perth. He\u2019s going to hit that length, and the question is how England counteracts that. I think they\u2019ll probably go at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll try to knock him off his balance and probably run at him and try to hit him, which comes with a great deal of danger. <\/p>\n

Scott Boland could be targeted in the first Ashes Test.Source: AFP<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m intrigued to see how the England batters play Scotty Boland. Sometimes the underdog, the under-statesman, comes out on top, and Boland\u2019s got 49 wickets at 12 apiece in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boland has been the perfect man to slot into the Test XI since earning his baggy green in the 2021 Boxing Day Test against England at the MCG.<\/p>\n

In his 14 Tests, the Victorian cult hero has taken 62 wickets at an average of 16.53, with his only major hiccup coming against the Poms in the 2023 Ashes series.<\/p>\n

In two appearances at Leeds and Birmingham, he took only two wickets and was belted for 231 runs.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vaughan was tipping an unheralded quick to be the difference for England and re-gain the Ashes for the first time since Australia\u2019s series win in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone will be talking about Jofra Archer and Mark Wood \u2026 but Josh Tongue can have an impact,\u201d Vaughan said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTongue\u2019s been great for England in the summer. And he bowled well against Australia in 2023 in one game. He\u2019s got an awkward action. A square-on, front-on action.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gets them down at a decent length, so Josh Tongue\u2019s a bowler who could have a huge amount of success here.<\/p>\n

\u201cJosh Tongue has bowled well in England on most pitches, but he should suit the extra bounce in Perth. You can get the ball moving around. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s very, very good against left-handers. The Australians are potentially going to have five in their 11, so you\u2019ll fancy going to the left hand.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tongue has taken 31 wickets in six Tests, having made his debut against Ireland in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English cricket legend Michael Vaughan has issued seamer Scott Boland with a big Ashes warning, declaring he will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-275466","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\/275466","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=275466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}