He was accurate in length and when conditions were helpful he used all of his 196 centimetres (6 feet 5 inches) to extract steep bounce.

Boshier took 108 wickets in 1958, the year he was awarded his county cap, and the same number, 108, in 1961, when he finished second in the English national bowling averages for the season, but failed so badly against the Australians that he was never considered for representative honours.

[1] The following year, a succession of injuries limited Boshier to ten games, and he never recovered from these setbacks, being released by Leicestershire at the end of 1964.

A "rabbit" with no pretensions to batting ability, Boshier scored just 579 runs at an average of 4.32.

[4] Between August 1957 and July 1959 Boshier played fifty-two innings without reaching double figures.