Scott Boland blows away England
Scott Boland's nickname goes back well before requests for a statue to be erected in his honour in Melbourne gathered pace.
"He was built a little bit like the shape of a barrel," says Nick Jewell, Boland's coach at Frankston-Peninsula Cricket Club on the outskirts of Melbourne.
"He had a lot of talent but was very young and very raw - nowhere near professional enough in the way he presented himself."
18 years on, Boland, who has gone by 'Barrel' ever since those teenage days, was always expected to play a key part in the upcoming Ashes series. Injuries to Australia team-mates Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood have only pushed him further to the fore.
