FOREVER IN OUR HEART: BOLAND KRIEKET STAR PLAYER DIE IN AIR CRASH SOME MINUTES ON HIS WAY...

There is a startling quietness in Scott Boland’s face. He exudes the feeling of a dignified man walking his kids in a park but he is bowling out of his skin in the World Test Championship, stabbing few decisive blows into the Indian heart. “He doesn’t show much emotion, does he? Always calm, composed,” says his life mentor Paul Stewart, the man who guided Boland through the labyrinthine lanes of his psychological terrain, getting him reacquainted with his aboriginal roots. “To see someone like him up there winning games for Australia, it’s been a dream. It’s a great hopeful message for the entire community. We are all so proud,” Stewart had told The Indian Express.

That ‘someone like him’ is the real significance behind Boland’s achievements at the international arena.

In his mid 20’s, Scott Boland discovered that his maternal grandfather was adopted and was actually an aboriginal.