Jonathon James Boult
is a New Zealand cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er.

He made his first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 debut for Northern Districts against Auckland in March 2009, scoring 31 and 5 and taking four wickets in the second innings.
Boult was named as twelfth man for New Zealand's first Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 against India later that month.

His younger brother, Trent Boult

Trent Boult

Trent Boult is a New Zealand Under–19 cricketer. Born in Rotorua, Boult is a right–handed batsman and left–arm medium–fast opening bowler. He accompanied the New Zealand A team on their winter training tour in 2007. On 9 February 2007, Boult took two wickets for 28 runs and...

, has played for New Zealand A

New Zealand A cricket team

The New Zealand A cricket team is a cricket team representing New Zealand, and is the "second tier" of international New Zealand cricket below the full New Zealand cricket team. The team played its first game, against an England XI, in 1996/97...

and Northern Districts.