Lockie Ferguson
The 39th match of T20 World Cup 2024 was played between New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. However, both the teams have not been able to make it to the Super-8. New Zealand won this match by 7 wickets. but more than this, there is talk about the brilliant bowling of Lockie Ferguson, who did wonders in T20 International cricket. In this match, Lockie Ferguson took three wickets in his spell.
Lockie Ferguson did this amazing thing
Lockie Ferguson has become the first bowler in the history of T20 World Cup to bowl all maiden overs in his four-over spell. apart. Apart from this, Lockie Ferguson has become the second bowler to bowl four maiden overs in a single match in T20 International cricket. Earlier, this had happened only once in men’s T20 International cricket, when Canada’s Saad Bin Zafar did not give a single run in his entire four overs in an international match against Panama in 2021.
Lockie Ferguson took three wickets in his maiden spell
The 33-year-old fast bowler made a brilliant start by dismissing Papua New Guinea captain Assad Vala for 6 runs on his very first ball. After this, he did not allow the next batsman to score any runs and bowled the first maiden over in the powerplay itself.
Then he got a chance to bowl the over after the powerplay. Ferguson again bowled economically and bowled another maiden over. Ferguson made a comeback in the 12th over and successful in taking the wicket of Charles Amini, who scored 17 runs. After this, he completed his third wicket-maiden by dismissing Chad Soper in the 14th over.