New Zealand pacer Trent Boult is “excited” in regards to the prospect of going through India within the semi-final of the continuing World Cup after the Kiwis additional fortified their hopes of sealing a spot within the semi-final with a 5-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Thursday.
Boult together with his calm manner produced a cheap in addition to fierce spell to place the Kiwis within the driver’s seat. With this victory, New Zealand are in pole place to face India within the semi-final.
Boult after the victory talked in regards to the prospect of going through the high-flying ‘Men in Blue’ and stated, “I can’t speak on what they’re thinking but from our point of view to play World Cup in India and to come up against the host nation a team that’s red hot playing good cricket at a great ground – you couldn’t script it any better. So excited if that happens, I feel like we’ve done all we can from our point of view and yeah, we’ll just wait and see what happens.”
“Yeah, as I said earlier, very good players. They’re playing a positive style of cricket and yeah, I suppose playing shots does present chances – but yeah, we’re going to be very clear with how we’re going to tackle that game if it happens still has to be ticked off but yeah, I think there’ll be a lot of excitement and the prospect of that challenge and like I said it doesn’t get any bigger than taking on India in front of 1.5 billion people. Yeah, it’s very exciting,” Boult added.
New Zealand’s victory over Sri Lanka additionally noticed Boult obtain a significant milestone as he grew to become the primary Kiwi bowler to assert 50 wickets within the ODI World Cup.
Sri Lanka skipper Kusal Mendis grew to become his fiftieth sufferer within the event, that too in simply 28 innings. Only Australia’s Mitchell Starc (19) and former Sri Lanka speedster Lasith Malinga (25) have managed to assert 50 wickets in fewer innings than him.
Boult’s fiftieth wicket additionally made him simply the sixth bowler to take action within the ODI World Cup. Former Australian pacer Glenn McGrath is the main wicket-taker within the ODI World Cup with 71 scalps to his identify. He additionally grew to become the third Blackcaps bowler to have greater than 600 wickets in worldwide cricket.
Talking about his particular person achievements he stated, “Very proud, not something that I was ever targeting, but yeah, everyone loves World Cup cricket. Everyone wants to play against the best players and test their game out. Yeah, I’ve been very fortunate to have three campaigns in the ODI shares and, yeah, nice to be contributing. I’ve enjoyed playing with all the guys here. I’ve got very good friends in the team and, you know, we really help each other out. So nice to bring up 50 this afternoon and yeah, hopefully a few more.”
Coming to the match, New Zealand pacers restricted Sri Lanka to a paltry rating of 171 with Trent Boult main the cost with the white ball. The Kiwis stumbled a few occasions however ended up chasing the overall with three overs to spare and registered a 5-wicket victory.Â
