Trent Boult is one of the premier fast bowlers for New Zealand and he has just recently been released from his contract with New Zealand cricket board and is not in the first priority for selection but because he is Trent Boult he will keep getting selected for the important tournaments like the World Cup. Trent Boult is one of the Bowlers who has taken a lot of wickets for New Zealand and is also one of the best left arm fast bowlers in the world. He has been one of the great ambassadors of the sport and everyone respects him. He is still going strong and will take more wickets before he retires.
Trent Boult has been playing international cricket since 2011 which means 11 years at the top. He has played 78 Test Matches for New Zealand and in those Matches he has taken 317 wickets till now at an average of 27.50 and he has 10 Five wicket hauls and 1 time he has got 10 wickets in a test match. He has also played 99 ODIs for New Zealand and he has picked up 187 ODI Wickets at an average of 23.98 with 5 Five wicket hauls. He has also played 46 T20IS for New Zealand and has taken 63 wickets in this format. So, a total of 450+ international wickets. Let’s look at his Top 5 Best Performances.
6/68 vs England (2013)
This is the first 5 wicket haul for Trent Boult in test cricket and it came against England and with this incredible performance he showed that he is a force in world cricket. In the first batting innings for England he just ripped apart the batting line-up and in 25 overs of excellent fast bowling he got 6 Wickets for 68 runs and England were bowled out for only 204. This 6 wicket haul for Trent Boult was the start of greatness that would not stop and till today he remains a threat for all the other Betting teams.
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6/40 and 4/40 vs West Indies (2013)
The year 2013 was very kind to Boult as he got the best figures of his career in a test match against West Indies here. In the first innings of the West Indies he was unplayable and he took wickets of most of the West Indies batters and in just 15 overs and giving away 40 runs he got 6 Wickets and West Indies were bowled out for 193. In the second batting innings for West Indies the story was the same and Boult was again on the money as he again got 4 important Wickets and gave away 40 runs again in 12.5 overs and made a massive statement that all the teams took note of and New Zealand won this match by an innings and 73 runs.
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6/32 and 3/67 vs England (2018)
Yet again it was against England but 5 years later In 2018 and by that time Trent Boult had become one of the main Bowlers for New Zealand. England batted first and they got out for just 58 and Trent Boult was responsible for 60% of the damage as he took 6 wickets in that innings and destroyed England totally and in only 10.4 overs of bowling and giving away 32 runs. This was a dream spell for Boult. Then in the 3rd innings of the test match Boult again was on the money as this time he had to work hard and he got 3 Wickets for 67 runs in 27 overs of fast bowling and he was one of the main reasons that New Zealand won this match by an innings and 49 runs.
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5/27 vs Australia (2015)
This is the same match where Mitchell Starc took 6 wickets but in the first innings of this match it was Trent Boult who did all the damage and he was the one that restricted Australia to a low score in the first innings. He got 5 Wickets for just 27 runs in 10 overs and he never allowed any of the Australian batters to settle down and they were Bowled out for 152 and New Zealand won this match by 1 wicket. This was one of the most special performances by Trent Boult in his international career.
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7/34 vs West Indies (2017)
This was the best performance in the career of Trent Boult and he is one of the rare fast bowlers to get 7 wickets in an ODI Match. This match was against West Indies and New Zealand had posted a big score in 50 overs but when West Indies came out to bat Trent Boult just decimated the entire batting order of West Indies and just kept picking Wickets at regular intervals and the result was that in just 10 overs of fast bowling he got 7 wickets and gave away only 34 runs. This was one of the most extraordinary spells of fast bowling in an ODI match.
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