Scott Boland has turned into a nightmare for India as the player claimed four important wickets in the ongoing fifth Test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, SCG. His first wicket was Yashasvi Jaiswal, and the next one was Virat Kohli. Later on, he dismissed Rishabh Pant and Nitish Kumar Reddy in two consecutive balls. The Indian batting order collapsed like a pack of cards because of Boland's magnificent bowling.
While Pant was batting on 40 runs in 98 balls and looked comfortable on the crease, Boland went round the wicket and delivered the short ball wide off to try and force a big shot. Pant decided to play the pull shot, but the ball ended up on the inside half of the mid-wicket. When Nitish Reddy came in, Boland delivered a short-length ball, and he played it straight to second slip.
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Reddy pulled off a Virat Kohli with that shot and was dismissed on the very first ball while playing an outside off-stump delivery. From scoring a century in the previous game to scoring a golden duck out, Reddy's graph fell unexpectedly. Once again, India's top order fell again, leaving the team under pressure.
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