Much has changed for Australia's Test team in two years, but the bold decisions and stunning breakthroughs all lead to a crowning victory in the World Test Championship final, Dean Bilton writes.
That was a few months before the 2021/22 Ashes series. Tim Paine was still captain and wicketkeeper, Justin Langer was still coach and Scott Boland was a Sheffield Shield toiler whose name had barely been breathed around Test selection conversations.
Travis Head's rise from scratchy middle-order hopeful to blink-and-you'll-miss-it matchwinner has come suddenly, but was underlined by his first-innings 168 at The Oval. And then there's Boland. The single greatest Australian cricket story of the past two years, and a bowler whose knack of conjuring momentary magic inside spells of sustained excellence is shared with the true bowling greats of the game.Boland still carries himself with the confidence of a cricketer who somehow can't quite believe his own achievements, while deep down knowing he was capable of this all along.
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