Scott Boland has capped his brilliant home summer by cracking into the ICC's top-10 bowling rankings for the first time.

Australia's back-up paceman rocketed 29 places to 10th spot on the back of the best match figures of his first-class career - 10-76 in the six-wicket triumph at the SCG that sealed a historic series win over India.

Boland was player of the match in the decisive fifth Test on a green seaming wicket, having also taken six wickets across the Boxing Day Test at his happy hunting ground the MCG.

The 35-year-old's previous best position on the ICC rankings was 36th after he took five wickets in the 2023 World Test Championship final against India in 2023.

Boland's latest honour comes as selectors deliberate the make-up of the bowling attack for the two-match Test tour of Sri Lanka that begins this month.

A squad announcement is expected by the end of the week.

Australia could carry as many as three front-line spinners in their XI for the matches in Galle, known for its turning pitches.

There is a chance Boland will be the only specialist quick selected for the first match, with Josh Hazlewood under an injury cloud, Pat Cummins likely to miss the series for the birth of his second child and Mitchell Starc clearly hampered during the SCG Test.

Hazlewood's injuries meant Boland played three of five matches in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, but the man of the hour should be fresh for Sri Lanka after opting to sit out of BBL duties with the Melbourne Stars.

Boland has overtaken 14th-placed Starc on the ICC rankings to join Test teammates Pat Cummins (2nd), Josh Hazlewood (4th) and Nathan Lyon (7th) in the top 10.

Superstar Indian quick Jasprit Bumrah, the Border-Gavaskar Trophy's player of the series, remains atop the charts.

Travis Head and Steve Smith, Australia's two most prolific run-scorers in the series, sit in fifth and eighth respectively on the ICC's batting rankings behind ladder-leading Englishman Joe Root.