Scott Boland was simply hoping to make "a little bit of an impact" on his Test debut.
Never in his wildest dreams did he think his contribution on the biggest stage of all - a Boxing Day Test against the old enemy - would be deemed worthy of the player-of-the-match award.
In the end, his scintillating haul of 6-7 in England's second innings destroyed the tourists, sealed the Ashes series for Australia and was impossible to overlook for the Johnny Mullagh Medal.
Having claimed two wickets in an over during the dramatic final hour on day two, Boland returned to centre stage on Tuesday morning.
The 32-year-old seamer took four wickets in the space of three overs, including the prized scalp of England captain Joe Root.
Root's dismissal effectively ended the tourists' resistance as they were skittled for 68 and failed to make Australia bat again.
Boland equalled the record for the fastest five-wicket haul in Test history, matching the 19-ball efforts of England's Stuart Broad (2015) and Australia's Ernie Toshack (1947).
The Victorian claimed match figures of 7-55 from 17 overs in a performance that justified Australia's horses-for-courses selection policy on his home ground.
"Coming here today I thought we had a good chance of winning, but I obviously didn't think it was going to happen that quickly," Boland said.
"It's a big step up from anything else I've ever played before so I was hoping to make a little bit of an impact."
Boland, of Gulidjan ancestry, became just the second Indigenous man to play Test cricket for Australia, after Jason Gillespie.
His debut came three years after he and his brother Nick went on the 2018 Aboriginal XI tour of the United Kingdom.
That tour commemorated the 150th anniversary of the pioneering all-Indigenous side that became the first Australian sporting team to tour internationally in 1868.
"About 17 of us went away a couple of years ago to commemorate the tour from 1868 and got to learn so much about that tour," Boland said.
"My family would be very proud and I'm very proud to win this (Johnny Mullagh Medal) award."
