Lovely Trenty -The Secrets of Trent Boult's Success

[Athlai]

Swing, smile, repeat: the secrets of Trent Boult's success

How Lovely Trenty became one of New Zealand's all-time greats

www.thecricketmonthly.com

"Setting up a batter and then delivering that plan and being successful - I'm always going to laugh when that happens," he said. "That's something that I've planned, and it's worked. I'm not going to stand there like a psycho and scream my head off."

Shots fired at Wagner

 

[nzfan]

You know from the recent episode he's damn confident. While quarantining in NZ he said he will play the second test. Gary said he won't but then who had to buckle down and let him play? Gary it is. Gary said the UK had reduced the quarantining time which is incorrect. It was 3 days even when the team first arrived in UK. Boult has the player power and he decides what he needs to do. He's not one that takes command from others He'll do as he pleases all while smiling away. Love it...

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Disappointed that the article wasn't just about him smoking a ton of weed before the innings.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

does he order a venti or a trenta at s t a r b u c k s

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

 

[hendrix]

Dude is just hilarious

 

[Uppercut]

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I've never seen anyone who smiles like a South Park character in real life before.

 

[SteveNZ]

I thought that stat in there was crazy, that we won one out of something like 19 Tests between March 2012 and Dec 2013?

Cape Town might have been a turning point, but given we didn't win any of the 9 Tests following that, it was more a barge turning than a jet ski.

 

[Days of Grace]

There were some very frustrating draws at home vs. England in 2012/13 and the first test vs. West Indies in 2013/14 where either rain, a flat pitch or batting heroics saved the opposition. I remember thinking after that first test against West Indies that we would never win again.

 

[Jack1]

Simon Doull proclaimed Boult has an amazing eye and hand eye coordination when he came out to bat in the 2nd test. Dude averages 15 with the bat. If he thinks Boult has an amazing eye and hand eye coordination I'd love to hear his thoughts on Steven Smith, better yet Bradman.

 

[SteveNZ]

He does. Hand eye isn't the major causation of batting average.

Incidentally, and I've told this before, Trent Boult won batsman of the tournament at the NZ premier one-day nationals around 2010 or so. He does have great hand-eye, he just for whatever reason throws logic out the window when facing anyone 130+. He's a four handicap golfer, has hands like fly paper in the field, plays guitar well...there's no issues with the link between brain and hands.

 

[Bahnz]

I thought that stat in there was crazy, that we won one out of something like 19 Tests between March 2012 and Dec 2013?

Cape Town might have been a turning point, but given we didn't win any of the 9 Tests following that, it was more a barge turning than a jet ski.

By early 2013, the talent was obviously there, but I think the crucial missing ingredient was belief. Over the next year, NZ would routinely get into strong positions before frittering away the advantage - the 1st and especially 3rd tests v England and the 1st test v WI being the prime examples. NZ dominated all 3 games, but got stage fright once they had the opposition cornered. That belief in the team's ability to win from any position wasn't really in place until the winter tours of 2014, when NZ came from behind to win tests v WI and Pakistan.