Australia’s Boland damages South Africa in brief respite from rain

The Guardian

Just 12.2 overs possible on first day of second Test Bowler seizes his opportunity with two wickets If there is a theme to Scott Boland’s Test career, it’s making the most of limited opportunity. Finding a way into the team in 2021 when it seemed that chance had passed him by, remaining fourth in line for three spots, playing at the whim of absence, yet in those moments becoming a wrecking force, causing rashes of wickets, taking first-over strikes, threatening hat-tricks and once making good. So began the second Test in Gqeberha, another match he wasn’t supposed to play, on a day that didn’t…