With swing on offer and overcast conditions adding spice against India at the Oval on Saturday, New Zealand bowler Trent Boult was pleased with how he did and is convinced that the Kiwis are among the favourites at the World Cup.
Boult, who dismissed the two openers Rohit Sharma and SHikhar Dhawan with unplayable deliveries, returned with figures of 4/33 against India.
“Nice to see it swinging around a little bit,” Boult told ICC.
“I’d love to expect that everywhere, some good wickets around the country. It’s going to be a good challenge, but us as a bowling unit, we’re definitely looking forward to it, but we’ll take some confidence out of Saturday.”
“But yeah, the biggest challenge will be when it’s not swinging and not nipping around a little bit. Then how do we take wickets? So we’ll look at that.”
With batsmen dominating one-day internationals in England in recent years, there is a belief that this World Cup could see imposing totals being notched on regular basis.
“We want to be as aggressive as we can to try and get into any team’s batting order, so we know if we get two or three wickets at the top of the order, it puts a lot of pressure on the opposition. That is the basic plan, and for me, it’s about pitching the ball up and swinging the ball around as much as it can.”
Boult was the joint leading wicket-taker in the 2015 edition with 22 scalps from nine matches.
