Published 18:58 IST, October 24th 2019

Lockie Ferguson returns to field after injury ahead of England series

New Zealand's Lockie Ferguson is returning to the field after thumb injury for warm-up matches in England ahead of the five-match T20I series next month.

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New Zealand cricketer Lockie Ferguson is returning to field for warm-up matches in England ahe of five-match T20I series in vember. Ferguson last played an international cricket match in final match of World Cup on July 14, 2019. He has since n been out of action due to a fracture in his thumb during a training session. As a result of that, he could t join New Zealand cricket team for its Sri Lanka tour.

ICC quoted him saying " thumb has healed well and I'm looking forward to having a hit-out at Lincoln," Ferguson said.

He n ded, "While it's obviously frustrating to be sidelined, it's actually been good to take some time to freshen up and be able to return with plenty of motivation and energy.”

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Ferguson all set to meet England

Ferguson will be playing two practice matches, one on October 27 and October 29 to match up pace ahe of ir Twenty-20 series. His first match after injury will be against same team against whom he played his last international match, England. At ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, he h been one best players as he finished as country's leing wicket-taker with 21 wickets with an aver of 19.47 runs. 28-year-old tearaway pacer is looking forward to clash against England once again.

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He spoke to ICC saying, “It's beginning of a really big summer of cricket, and it's exciting to be starting it against a quality England side”.

Neesham mocks ICC's boundary count rule change

New Zealand cricketer Jimmy Neesham mocked International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision to dump boundary countback rule in a hilarious tweet by making Titanic reference. He retweeted an update on rule change, along with which he wrote that next thing on nda would be a better bicular for ice spotters on Titanic which sank after hitting an iceberg. With that, all-rounder meant to say that rule has come up after dam was done. New Zealand this year lost 2019 Cricket World Cup final to England because of same rule. 

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ICC on October 14 got rid of boundary countback rule saying that it won't be a part of ICC matches in future. rule decided match-winner based on number of boundaries scored by both teams if re is a tie in super over. team with more boundaries in that match is declared winner according to rule. From w onwards, if super over ends in a tie, n re will be ar super over till time one team scores more than or.
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17:18 IST, October 24th 2019