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Trent Boult Surpasses Shaheen Afridi As MI Star Breaches 300-Wicket Landmark In T20s

Aashay Chopade

Trent Boult and Shaheen Afridi (AP Photos)Trent Boult and Shaheen Afridi (AP Photos)

Trent Boult has been one of the leading pacers in the world for a decade now. He is not playing for New Zealand currently, but is still going strong in franchise leagues around the world, and is doing well for MI in IPL 2025. In the game against Rajasthan Royals, he reached the 300-wicket landmark in T20s with a wicket of Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Trent Boult Takes 3 Wickets vs RR

The 301st wicket he took was of Nitish Rana, and with that, he crossed Shaheen Shah Afridi who has 300 wickets in 216 innings. Trent Boult then got the wicket of Nitish Rana and equalled Haris Rauf's tally of 301 wickets in 225 innings. He ended the game with three wickets taking his tally to 302 wickets in 255 innings, and thus went past Haris Rauf too. The heroics made him just the third New Zealand bowler after Tim Southee and Ish Sodhi to cross 300 wickets in T20s.

  • Trent Boult - 302 Wickets in 255 Innings
  • Haris Rauf - 301 Wickets in 225 Innings
  • Shaheen Afridi - 300 Wickets in 216 Innings

Trent Boult has been a gun-powerplay bowler over the years, and has the knack of picking wickets in the opening over in all formats of the game. In IPL, Trent Boult has 136 wickets in 114 innings, and is a player who has done well for multiple franchises. 

In the last cycle, he did brilliantly for Rajasthan Royals and was a key figure in their qualification for the final of the 2022 season. RR surprisingly released him ahead of the 2025 season, and MI got back their 2020 season star to form a formidable pace attack with Jasprit Bumrah and Deepak Chahar in their ranks too.