NZ vs PNG Highlights
New Zealand (NZ) defeated Papua New Guinea (PNG) in their last league match of the T20 World Cup 2024. In this match, New Zealand fast bowler and Royal Challengers Bangalore team in IPL, Lockie Ferguson made a great record in his name.
The record he made was made for the first time in the T20 World Cup.
In the T20 World Cup 2024, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea faced each other on 17 June in Tarouba, Trinidad. although the results of this match was not going to effect the health of the World Cup, but in their last league match, New Zealand registered a spectacular victory by 7 wickets.
Playing first in the match, Papua New Guinea scored 78 runs in 19.4 overs. In response, New Zealand made this score 79/3 in 12.2 overs and won it. Keep in mind that new Zealand’s team has already been eliminated from the Super 8 race. In this match, new Zealand bowler and ‘Player of the Match’ Lockie Ferguson also made a record, which was not made in the history of T20 World Cup till date.
In this match, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and decided to bowl first. Williamson’s decision was also accurate because no batsman of the new Papua New Guinea could show the ability to fight. Charles Amini scored the highest 17 runs for Papua New Guinea. At the same time., Norman Vanua was the second highest scorer from the team with 14 runs. Papua New Guinea’s team collapsed to just 78 runs.
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The most successful bowler from New Zealand was Lockie Ferguson, who bowled a dangerous spell of 4-4-0-3. Which is also a record. at the same time, Trent boult, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi got 2-2 wickets. Mitchell Santner got a success.
In response, when New Zealand started the run chase, they had a very bad start. Finn Allen was caught out on 0 off the second ball of the match by Kabua Morea. then Rachin Ravindra also became the victim of Morea after scoring 6 runs. When Rachin was out, New Zealand’s score was 20/2.
After this, Devon Conway (35) was dismissed on New Zealand’s score of 54 runs; But then Kane Williamson (18 not out) and Daryl Mitchell (19 not out) took New Zealand to victory and finished the match at 79/3 (12.2 overs).
Lockie Ferguson made this great record
In tis match, New Zealand fast bowler Lockie Ferguson made a tremendous record. He has become the second bowler in T20 International and the first bowler to bowl four maiden overs in a spell in T20 World Cup. Lockie was seen playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this time.
Lockie bowlerd an incredible spell of 4-4–3 against Papua New Guinea. Apart from Lockie, the other bowler to achieve this feat id Saad Bin Zafar of Canada, who bowled a spell of 4-4-0-2 against Panama in the T20 World Cup American Region Qualifier match in Coolidge in 2021. Lockie was given the title of ‘Player the Match’ due to his amazing bowling.