T20 World Cup 2024: New Zealand’s star bowler Trent Boult has made it clear that he will not play the T20 World Cup to be held in 2026. This World Cup being held in America-West Indies is the last World Cup of his career.
T20 World Cup 2024: New Zealand’s star bowler Trent Bolt has made a big announcement amid the T20 World Cup 2024. Before the last match of the group stage against Papua New Guinea, he said that this is the last World Cup of his career. Now it is believed that Bolt may retire from T20 International after the World Cup 2024 being played in America-West Indies.
The New Zealand team has to play the fourth match of the group stage in the T20 World Cup against Papua New Guinea on June 15. Before this match, Trent Boult said in his statement, ‘This will be my last T20 World Cup. I look back at the partnership with Tim Southee with very good memories. We bowled a lot of overs together. I know the partnership very well.
Reliving memories with Tim Southee
Tim Southee and Trent Bolt are star bowlers of the New Zealand team. Both have played their entire career together. Regarding this, Bolt said, ‘Obviously they are very good friends on and off the field. It was nice to turn back time a bit and see some swing bowling at the top, some great memories, and hopefully there are more to come.’
Bolt took 7 wickets in 3 matches
The New Zealand team has been eliminated from the group stage in the T20 World Cup 2024. This time Kane Williamson was captaining, but the team lost both its matches in the beginning. This team was included in Group C, out of which Afghanistan and West Indies have secured their place in the Super 8 by winning their 3-3 matches. This season Bolt has taken 7 wickets in 3 matches.
New Zealand’s performance in T20 World Cup 2024
The T20 World Cup 2024 being hosted by the USA and West Indies from June 1 proved to be a nightmare for New Zealand. This is the first time since 2014 that the Kiwi team has been eliminated from the group stage. New Zealand was defeated by Afghanistan by a huge margin of 84 runs in the very first match. Then they lost the second match to West Indies. The third match was won by 9 wickets against Uganda. Now the last match is to be played against Papua New Guinea.
Trent Boult’s career
Trent Bolt made his debut for the Kiwi team in 2011, since then he has been an important member of the New Zealand team. This legendary bowler has the experience of playing the finals of the T20 World Cup, ODI World Cup and World Test Championship. Bolt has played 4 T20 World Cups since 2014, but has not won the title even once. In T20, he has played 60 matches and taken 81 wickets.
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