{"id":285106,"date":"2026-02-15T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285106\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:28:09","slug":"black-caps-lockie-ferguson-to-miss-final-t20-world-cup-group-match-ahead-of-birth-of-first-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/285106\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps: Lockie Ferguson to miss final T20 World Cup group match ahead of birth of first child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly exciting time for Lockie and Emma and we\u2019re pleased that he\u2019ll be at home for such a special occasion,\u201d Walter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAt this stage, we won\u2019t be replacing Lockie in the squad as the plan would be for him to return for the Super Eight phase of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut our travelling reserves Ben Sears and Cole McConchie are ready to be called into the squad should we need them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">Ferguson has been in strong form with the ball during the World Cup, taking at least a wicket in all three group games New Zealand has played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">The Black Caps suffered their first loss of the tournament on Sunday morning against South Africa, losing by seven wickets. They had beaten Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates in their first two matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"iSXYlpzztwWbxuk\" style=\"display:none\">They will secure their place in the Super Eight phase with a win over Canada, a side they have never played in cricket\u2019s shortest format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s an incredibly exciting time for Lockie and Emma and we\u2019re pleased that he\u2019ll be at home for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,9092,3017,15316,7022,158822,275,42574,2511,10542,27585,5820,5904,1888,209,12514,84395,5268,10543,14574,111,139,69,1118,158823,213,1557,2737,67648,165,61,14578,377],"class_list":["post-285106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-against","tag-ahead","tag-birth","tag-black","tag-bowler","tag-canada","tag-caps","tag-child","tag-cup","tag-departed","tag-ferguson","tag-final","tag-first","tag-group","tag-leave","tag-lockie","tag-lose","tag-match","tag-miss","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-paternity","tag-sports","tag-squad","tag-star","tag-t20","tag-their","tag-to","tag-tuesday","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}