His 301 also ruined the domination of Otago, where the five preceding New Zealand triple-centurions moved toward from. The subsequent season he scored over and over again, making 728 runs at 42.82, together with two additional centuries, and – later than a reliable tour of South Africa in the company of New Zealand A – was called up to New Zealand’s one-day troop for the tour of Bangladesh in November 2004. He played one match there, other than it was an additional 12 months earlier than he attributed all over again.

This time he made for the most part of his possibility, amid 70 not out, 32, 50 and 112 in opposition to Sri Lanka, which guided to a Test initiation: he added 75 in his second match, as New Zealand obtained an unconquerable lead over West Indies. Wisden called him “one for the future, made available he could keep hold of his trouble-free, unsophisticated batting technique”: John Bracewell, New Zealand’s coach, considers he has the apparatus to unlock, even though he had harms there in opposition to South Africa in the early hours of 2006.

Later than being unnoticed for New Zealand’s original World Cup games, Fulton slotted back in as an opener at what time Lou Vincent fluttered home. Fulton clutched the possibility and was his team’s peak scorer three times, together with an isolated hand of 62 as New Zealand fall to pieces in opposition to Australia. He over and done with the tournament third on the side’s run tally, amid 297 at 37.12. A knee injury enforced him out of the tour of South Africa, and his structure twisted not in agreement the subsequent months. He made a comeback in 2008 but is still penetrating for that steadiness in form, which would facilitate in establishing himself in the middle order.