Lockie Ferguson returns to field after injury ahead of England series

New Zealand cricketer Lockie Ferguson is returning to the field for warm-up matches in England ahead of the five-match T20I series in November. Ferguson last played an international cricket match in the final match of the World Cup on July 14, 2019. He has since then been out of action due to a fracture in his thumb during a training session. As a result of that, he could not join the New Zealand cricket team for its Sri Lanka tour.

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

He then added, "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 the pace ahead of their Twenty-20 series. His first match after the injury will be against the same team against whom he played his last international match, England. At the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, he had been one the best players as he finished as the country's leading wicket-taker with 21 wickets with an average of 19.47 runs. The 28-year-old tearaway pacer is looking forward to the clash against England once again.

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

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The ICC on October 14 got rid of the boundary countback rule saying that it won't be a part of the ICC matches in the future. The rule decided the match-winner based on the number of boundaries scored by both teams if there is a tie in the super over. The team with more boundaries in that match is declared the winner according to the rule. From now onwards, if the super over ends in a tie, then there will be another super over till the time one team scores more than the other.
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