Trent Boult knows pressure.

Just 25, the Tauranga left arm quick bowler has played before hostile crowds, against some of cricket's meanest and wiliest at hotbeds around the world.

Now the young Bay of Plenty ‘quick' is preparing for a new type of pressure when the Blackcaps bring international cricket to the purpose built Bay Oval for the first time next Tuesday – the pressure of pulling on the Blackcaps strip in his own backyard – also for the first time.

His Mum and Dad will be there. 'They would have bought their tickets ages ago,” he says.

His older brother and Northern Districts teammate ‘Jono' will be watching critically from the shining new designer stand.

'A long history of rivalry there” says Trent. 'It was always my job to bowl at him in the backyard. Now I am a bit older and a bit quicker, he's not so keen”.

And if the NZ selectors smile on him, he will also be playing in front of all of his friends.

'I just want to make sure I don't get whacked straight back over my head off the first ball,” he adds.

The Bay Oval was picture perfect when Trent Boult took SunLive on a cook's tour of the Bay Oval this week. He's beaming and proud - it's almost his own personal patch.

'Everyone knows the Mount is a beautiful place and now we have a beautiful cricket ground,” he says.

There's the brand spanking new white picket fence, lush grassed terraces and a playing surface like a billiard table.

'There are not many tailor made cricket grounds like the Bay Oval around New Zealand,” adds Trent, 'so it's great to have it in our backyard. And I can imagine later in summer, it'll be 20-plus degrees and there will be families on the bank watching cricket. Perfect.”

But the Bay Oval is begging now. And Trent Boult's mood will swing as sharply as his first delivery when the left-armer steams in off his 18.2 metre run-up at 11am next Tuesday.

At the other end will be AB de Villiers or the like – the South Africans, some of cricket's hardest and best.

'What a christening for the Bay Oval” says Trent. 'It's not daunting just exciting. I get an opportunity to knock over one of the world's best batting line-ups.”

There will be pressure on him to make this a special day for cricket, for Mum and Dad and for the Bay of Plenty.

'Just a bit of pressure,” he smiles, 'but that will be great”.