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Jono Boult earns NZ XI Selection

Few players, since Bay of Plenty played their first game in 1932, have worked harder in the game than Jono Boult. This week he has been rewarded for all his hard graft for ND and the Bay of Plenty, with selection in a New Zealand XI to play India in Whangarei 1st& 2nd February 2014.

JJ Boult made his Bay of Plenty debut against Northland at the Te Puke Domain on the 21/22 January 2004 and has since gone on to wear the Bay uniform on 54 further occasions. It is interesting to look back ten years to the team that played the boys from the far north. Jono made his Bay debut alongside Andrew Hamilton (captain) Mitchell Sweetman, Ben Williams, Wayne Louw, Tai Bridgeman, Mathew Drake, Eugene Moore, Marcus Niles, Campbell Wilson, Kane Spiers and Mathew McLaughlin.

The bare bones of Jono’s Bay of Plenty career tell us that he has scored 1739 runs and taken 93 wickets.  His 55 appearances for the Bay place his 6th on the all time list, with his 1739 runs and 93 wickets putting him seventh and fifth respectively on the all time register. Reading the players above Jono on the honours lists is like peeling back the chronicles of Bay of Plenty Cricket history, with names such as Derek Beard, Mike Wright, Grant Manners, Stuart Harris and Mathew Hart.

Originally selected as a batsman Jono has developed into a genuine all-rounder. His highest score is 107 against Poverty Bay in the 2007/08 season, but it is his wicket taking feats that see him with multiple listings on the Bay of Plenty bowling honours board. Two seasons ago, he surpassed Graeme Aldridge’s most wickets in a season of 26 set seven years previously with 33 wickets, before Tony Goodin rewrote the record book last year with 44 bowling scalps. 

Jono has taken 3 six wicket bags, however it is the ten wickets or better list where he sits in some exalted company. His ten (6/32 & 4/37) wickets against Poverty Bay in the 2011/12 season, joins 10 other Bay players who have achieved the feat on 14 occasions. Graeme Aldridge heads the list having achieved the massive milestone three times, with Des Ferrow achieving the feat twice in the 1950’s and 60’s. Other well known players to achieve the feat in the Bay strip include Lance Cairns, Roydon Hayes and Tony Goodin who grabbed 7/42 and 5/91 in a Bay of Plenty Hawke Cup game last season.