{"id":12504,"date":"2025-02-08T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=12504"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:10:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T11:10:57","slug":"major-blow-to-new-zealand-lockie-ferguson-suffers-hamstring-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=12504","title":{"rendered":"Major Blow to New Zealand! Lockie Ferguson Suffers Hamstring Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Zealand has suffered a major blow ahead of their first match in the tri-nation series against Pakistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson, who was participating in the ILT20 league in the UAE with Desert Vipers, has sustained a hamstring injury, raising doubts about his availability for the tri-nation series and the Champions Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>During Qualifier 1, Ferguson was unable to complete his full quota of four overs and was seen limping off the field, adding to New Zealand\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s head coach Gary Stead has stated that Ferguson\u2019s participation will depend on his medical reports, but his potential absence could be a major blow to the team.<\/p>\n<p>With Tim Southee\u2019s retirement, Ferguson was expected to strengthen the pace attack alongside Matt Henry, but his injury has left the New Zealand camp unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>If medical reports suggest rest, New Zealand Cricket will have to announce a replacement, and after February 12, any squad changes will require approval from the ICC Technical Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand has suffered a major blow ahead of their first match in the tri-nation series against Pakistan. Fast bowler Lockie Ferguson, who was participating in the ILT20 league in the UAE with Desert Vipers, has sustained a hamstring injury, raising doubts about his availability for the tri-nation series and the Champions Trophy. During Qualifier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[4462,5189,5188,1098,5185,5077],"class_list":["post-12504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-champions-trophy","tag-injury-blow","tag-lockie-ferguson","tag-new-zealand-cricket","tag-pakistan-vs-new-zealand","tag-tri-nation-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}