Trent Boult is arare species among fast bowlers The New Zealand left-arm pacer is not just a superb bowler, he is additionally a great defender. His physicality was on full show amid the diversion between Gujarat Lions and Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2017 Indian Premier League conflict at the Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium in Rajkot on Friday.
The show of physicality from Boult was seen in the principal chunk of the fourteenth over. Indian legspinner Piyush Chawla was rocking the bowling alley to Gujarat Lions captain Suresh Raina. The left-hander moved down the track and trudged a flighted conveyance to profound mid wicket. The ball was going over the ropes for six yet Boult plunged to one side and got the ball. Be that as it may, the force dragged him over the ropes. In a brief instant, Boult back-flicked the ball mid-air and it landed securely on the field. Simultaneously, the New Zealand bowler spared six runs.
His show summed up a flawless day for KKR secured a record 10-wicket prevail upon Gujarat Lions. Chris Lynn's heavenly 41-ball 93 and Gautam Gambhir's forceful 76 sewed an opening association of 184, the most elevated ever.
Not the first run through
This is not the first occasion when that Boult has shown some grand handling. Amid the Twenty20 International between West Indies and New Zealand in Dominica in July 2014, Boult pulled off a catch for the ages. Corey Anderson knocked down some pins a short ball and Kieron Pollard, who was on 13, ripped the force shot to profound mid wicket. Boult got the ball close to the rope and acknowledging he would go over the limit, he flicked the ball mid-air, he bounced over the ropes and plunged back in the field to bring a splendid catch with both hands.
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Maybe the best catch of Boult was amid the 2013 Test coordinate between New Zealand and West Indies. In the second Test at the Basin Reserve, Boult took a staggering catch. Anderson was at the end of the day the bowler and the batsman was Denesh Ramdin. Anderson knocked down some pins a short and wide ball and Ramdin slice it uppishly to point, just for Boult to plunge to one side and take a dazzling one-gave get.
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Boult would likewise take two further splendid gets at the Basin Reserve. Amid the second Test against India in 2014, Tim Southee played a full ball to Ajinkya Rahane and the batsman confounded the flung shot to additional cover, Boult kept running in from the limit and jumped on his right side to take the catch one-gave.
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In 2015 and at a similar scene, the New Zealand pacer was busy once more. In the Test versus Sri Lanka, Kumar Sangakkara, who impacted a twofold century, made room and lashed a slice shot to point off a James Neesham short ball yet Boult took a one-gave discover jumping to one side