Boucher is currently South Africa's first-choice wicketkeeper, and is widely regarded as one of, if not the, greatest wicketkeepers South Africa has ever had, and lies second behind Adam Gilchrist on the all-time list of most dismissals in Test cricket, having overtaken the former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy in the first test of the Bank Alfalah Test Series versus Pakistan in Karachi on October 3, 2007 when he stumped Umar Gul off the bowling of Paul Harris . He is also second on the all-time list in One Day Internationals, behind the current Australian keeper Adam Gilchrist. He once held the record for the highest score by a nightwatchman in Test cricket with 125 for South Africa v Zimbabwe at Harare in 1999-00