Scot Boland 6 for 7 -Australia won  Ashes and third test by innings and 14 runs vs England

Australia beat England in third test match of Ashes series at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

England all team out for just 68 runs  in 2nd innings.

Scot Bolan proved his worth as MCG specialist , he took 6 wickets for 7 runs. Boland bowled 4 over and gave 7 runs  and took  six wixkets .He took six wickets of England in 21 balls spell.

England four player got duck in this innings . They were Dawid Malan, jack Leach, Mark Wood and Ollie Robinson.

Joe Root was  top scorer with 28 runs. Joe Root became third most runs scorer in Calendar year .He  remained behind Sir Vivian Richards and Pakistan Mohammad Yousif.

Joe scored  1708 runs in  29 innings with average of 56 in 2021. Mohammad Yousif scored 1788 runs in 19 innings  with average of 99.33 in 2006. and Viv Richards scored 1710 runs  in 1976 with averageof 90.0 in 19 innings and 11 test matches. Yousif also played 11 matches. Joe Root played 15 test match in Calendar year.

England 68 is lowest total in Australia since 1904 and lowest ashes total since 1936.

Scot Boland won player of Match award for his performance  7 wicket on debut.

 Boland won the Mullagh Medal as Player of the Match, named after Johnny Mullagh, who toured England as part of the Australian Aboriginal team in 1868

Boland became 2nd male player of Indigenous  origin after Jason Gillespie and fourth player after Faith Thomas, Jason Gillespie and Ashleigh Gardner.

Gillespie took 259 wicket in 71 test matches.

England equal record of most ducks in  calendar year.England player got 54 ducks in  2021 equal record of 1998 with 54 ducks.

Score

Australia 267

England  185 and 68

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