{"id":64551,"date":"2025-08-13T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64551\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:45:08","slug":"australian-fast-bowler-scott-bolands-ice-cold-response-to-england-bad-boy-bazball-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64551\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian fast bowler Scott Boland\u2019s ice-cold response to England bad boy Bazball tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Softly-spoken seaming assassin Scott Boland has a simple message to England: sledge us to your heart\u2019s content, it won\u2019t worry us.<\/p>\n

Cricket Australia is billing this summer\u2019s Ashes as \u201cthe biggest sporting event in the country this year\u201d. It may also be the most spiteful battle for the urn since the ill-tempered series on these shores in 2017, just months before Australian cricket crashed with the ball tampering scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Scott<\/p>\n

Scott Boland is not bothered by England\u2019s recent sledging.Credit: AP<\/p>\n

This time, it\u2019s England who are the self-appointed arbiters of the moral code, casting judgment on the spirit of cricket while also resorting to time-wasting and sledging<\/a> in their pursuit of victory.<\/p>\n

Boland\u2019s 14 Tests have all come during the Pat Cummins era when Australia has prioritised winning with skill over emotion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can do whatever they want when they\u2019re playing,\u201d Boland said. \u201cI think we\u2019ve been pretty consistent in the way we\u2019ve played since I\u2019ve been in around the squad the last four years, I think nothing much has changed on how we play our cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just going to be whoever takes on, whoever wins those big moments in the games and I know we\u2019ve got match winners with the bat and the ball, so if they want to sledge, it\u2019s fine, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to worry us too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boland, whose dollies to fans were whacked into the Yarra at a CA promotional event marking 100 days until the start of the Ashes, is more concerned with how to combat England\u2019s aggressive tactics to him.<\/p>\n

Bazball has been Boland\u2019s Kryptonite. In the Ashes of 2023 in England, he claimed just two wickets at 115.5 with an economy rate of nearly five an over \u2013 compared with his career marks of 62 at 16.5. The prospect of livelier pitches at home has him confident of improved returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Softly-spoken seaming assassin Scott Boland has a simple message to England: sledge us to your heart\u2019s content, it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-64551","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\/64551","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=64551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}