Boult shifts focus to laundry and vacuuming

Dylan Cleaver, writing for the New Zealand Herald, looks at the 'silver lining' for Trent Boult after a back injury ruled him out of three ODIs against England. After undergoing CT scans, Boult will now be "settling in for a bacchanalian weekend of laundry and vacuuming". Looking back at Boult's busy year, it is no surprise that he could be in for a lengthy rehabilitation period, and will have time to catch up on some of his hobbies.

This is almost cause for the return of his Fast Bowlers' Union membership card. One imagines the closest Dennis Lillee or Jeff Thomson ever came to a vacuum cleaner interrupted him in a hotel room after he slept off an all-nighter. Then again, Boult has never been your average fast bowler. There was a story doing the rounds, maybe spread by a fellow Black Caps' fast bowler, that Boult one winter decided to play rugby instead of soccer. On his way to his first practice he saw the players going through some hit-ups, tucked his newly bought and moulded mouthguard back into his sock and circumnavigated the field on his way back to soccer.