Not even a year after his first-class debut, Brendan Doggett was named in a Test squad for the first time.

While he didn't play in that 2018 series against Pakistan, it was the sort of recognition that suggested he was next on deck.

But the seamer stranglehold of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood allowed only brief interludes for just three quicks to make their Test debuts in the intervening seven years.

Meanwhile, Doggett turned from a hopeful 24-year-old Queenslander to a grizzled 31-year-old South Australian.

He is the first Aussie quick to join the men's Test ranks since Scott Boland's iconic six-wicket haul in the 2021 Boxing Day Ashes Test and now the pair are set to make history together.

If the four years since that spell feel like a lifetime ago, it's nothing c

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