New Zealand pacer Trent Boult made a remarkable return from injury as he clean bowled Australia's Joe Burns in the very first over of their innings in the Boxing Day Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) here on Thursday.

30-year-old Boult did not show any jitters and he ended up bowling a perfect inswinger to send Burns back to the pavilion.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) tweeted the video of the dismissal and captioned the post as: “Welcome back, Trent Boult”.

Boult had suffered a muscle injury in the first Test against England.

He was able to bowl just one over on the final day of the first Test match and went off the field after suffering pain on the right side of his ribs.

“An MRI scan yesterday confirmed Boult had strained one of the muscles overlying his ribs on his right-hand side but cleared him of any bone stress,” New Zealand Cricket had said in an official statement.

In Boult's absence, Matt Henry played the second Test against England. Twin half-centuries from Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne put Australia slightly ahead on Day 1 of the second Test against New Zealand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

In front of the largest Boxing Day crowd (80,473) to attend a non-Ashes Test for almost 50 years, Australia reached 257/4 at Stumps on Thursday.