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Kiwi star Lockie Ferguson (pictured left) has become just the second cricketer to bowl four maiden overs in a men's T20 international. The 33-year-old (right) achieved the impressive feat of 24 dot balls during a World Cup clash against Papua New Guinea.

In Christchurch this week, the Black Caps snuckled away their best chance of a home Test victory over their trans-Tasman rivals in decades, putting their latest entry into their catalogue of losses was thrown. The last one was held in Eden Park in 1993, when a Martin Crowe-led team defeated Allan Border's tourists by five wickets. With a sole Kiwi victory - in Hobart in 2011 - in the last 33 outings, Australia's dominance now extends to victories in nine of the last ten Tests.

NASSER HUSSAIN: This was an absolute walloping. There was no hiding place for England; they were just second best, and they can't blame the weather; the bulk of this battering took place before either team's concerns of bowling first came down. Credit must go to New Zealand. They weren't only missing their captain Kane Williamson and Tim Southee with their broken thumb in England, but they also lost Lockie Ferguson in the build-up to the game with a tense back.

AHMEDABAD (LA): Despite a new injury cloud descending on Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler goes into Wednesday's World Cup opener against New Zealand aspires of 'creating something new' as England looks to win their third global trophy in four years. During an evening training session at Narendra Modi Stadium on Wednesday, England's star all-rounder cut a peripheral figure, despite having a niggle in his left hip that could prevent him from participating in the competition curtain-raiser and raises concerns about his readiness for the remainder of his title defense. With each team facing nine group matches each before the semi-finals begin on November 15, Buttler said that now was "not the time to take big risks on someone at the start of the tournament." Harry Brook, a late replacement for the injured Jason Roy, is expected to make his World Cup debut this weekend.

BOOTH's BOOTH: Ben Stokes could miss England's World Cup opener against New Zealand in Ahmedabad tomorrow due to a hip injury, affording Harry Brook a great chance to make a difference on their title defense. England needs to see how Stokes recovered from today's training session, which begins at 6 p.m. BST), but Jos Buttler said that it was not the right time to put a stake on a player's health. Stokes sat out England's warm-up victory over Bangladesh in Guwahati on Monday, and Buttler's announcement today that he had been working on a "niggle" with the England physios.

EDGBASTON'S OUTrage AT EDGBASTON: England was as bad in Birmingham as they were dominant in Durham and Manchester, losing the third T20 against a spirited New Zealand by 74 runs in a thrilling series finale. Despite being expected to make a imposing 203 for victory, Jos Buttler's crew stumbling to 128, with even Harry Brook, the man of the moment, falling short, skying leg spinner Ish Sodhi to mid-on for eight. Buttler himself won 40 off 21 balls, but England was off the track in virtually every respect as the tourists closed the gap to 2-1 ahead of Tuesday's last game at Trent Bridge.

Dawid Malan responded to Harry Brook's death by steering England to their first Twenty20 victory since being double world champions. Malan's decision to dismiss Brook for the one-day title defense in India in October has only brought the focus on those who have been selected ahead of him, but the Yorkshire teammate also displayed his immense power, earning him a welcome return to form. After New Zealand flunked with the bat, Malan's 42-ball 54 gave England's chase at Chester-le-Street, putting his axing by Hundred team Trent Rockets behind him.

NASSER HUSSAIN: This was such an important innings for Zak Crawley's England career, and quite frankly he played superbly. He has a lot of starts this summer, but not necessarily Crawley-like. It has either been feast or famine if you think about his time in both county and international cricket. He has spells that feature one hundred and nothing else, but in this Ashes series he's had a few starts, played well and looked organized, but before Thursday, he had hit 50 people and looked averaging 32.

We're about to embark on what promises to be the most exciting series between England and Australia since 2005. Australia has a superb bowling attack and some of the best batters in the world; as a team, we are on the highest level. We have a fab deal. We may well conclude that we can't continue to do the way we have done for the past 12 months against them.

PAUL NEWMAN IN WELLINGTON: England lost one of the most exciting Tests of all time on Tuesday morning when Jimmy Anderson was dismissed with just two runs needed for victory. To win New Zealand, two needed Anderson, who had smashed a four off Neil Wagner's previous over, had the faintest of tickles down the legside off the left armer's safe hands of Tom Blundell. England lost their historic seventh straight Test victory, and it was also the first time they've lost after asking others to follow along.

PAUL NEWMAN IN WELLINGTON: England lost one of the most spectacular Tests of all time on Tuesday morning, when Jimmy Anderson was dismissed with only two runs needed for victory. Last week in dramatic scenes at the Basin Reserve, England's last pair Anderson and Jack Leach brought the team to the brink of a victory that would have been just as impressive as those won by Ben Stokes and Jack Leach for England at Headingley four years ago. But with two boys missing Anderson, who had broken a four off Neil Wagner's previous work, the left-armer's legside was offended, and New Zealand was granted the victory by Tom Blundell's safe hands, to coin a word.

DAVID LLOYD: In the second Test between England and New Zealand, the balance remains in the balance going into the final day, with Ben Stokes' side demanding 210 more runs for victory. Tim Southee's side put on an amazing 483, bringing New Zealand back to bat in the sequel, giving their visitors 258 runs to win. Zak Crawley was beaten on 24, but fellow opener Ben Duckett is 23 not out overnight, and nightwatchman Ollie Robinson is unbeaten on one. Lloyd 'Bumble' Lloyd casts his gaze back on day four of the second Test.

PAUL NEWMAN IN WELLINGTON: There have not been many times in a year of Test cricket played in fast-forward when England has been compelled to sit down and display the one ingredient they are reluctant to include in their potent 'Bazball' mix, patience. After Tom Latham and Devon Conway threatened to make Ben Stokes pay for what has become a rare but utterly offensive tactic in enforcing the follow on, they certainly needed it on the third day of this final Test. When New Zealand regained 149 without loss in their second innings after being barred for 209 in reply to 435 for eight, there were English supporters who were keen to know why Stokes had not just batted them out of the game.

PAUL NEWMAN IN WELLINGTON: On the first day of the second Test, there were some classic shots, a little unorthodoxy, and a lot of electric energy, putting Brook up to his personal record of the highest ever to play the sport. After just nine Test innings, no one in Test cricket has scored more runs than this incredible young Yorkshireman. In Don Bradman, there were two more visits to the crease than Brook to reach his fourth century, not even the best of them all. 'Bradmanesque' was a term used liberally at the Basin Reserve today to describe Brook and why not? His average now stands at over a hundred and his strike-rate at an all-time peak of 99.38. All this after his relative failure in his first Test appearance last summer.

England's first Test against New Zealand was a rousing half-centuries from Ben Duckett and Harry Brook as England raced to 279 for five after two sessions. The visitors were up and running at the Bay Oval in a rollicking manner, but England was unable to take over until Brook arrived to reclaim the initiative. He was 79no off 64 deliveries, sniffing distance from his fourth Test ton in as many games after his arduous tour of Pakistan.

Kane Williamson has stepped down as New Zealand Test captain, but the Black Caps will still lead the team in white-ball cricket. Tim Southee, a veteran fast bowler, will replace Williamson in the role, bringing an end to the batter's six-year tenure as the Test team's captain. Southee, who has worked on 22 occasions, will cap the team for the first time on this month's Test tour of Pakistan.

The Black Caps' 35-run victory in Adelaide likely puts them at the top of their Super 12s league, though England and Australia are yet to meet their seven points. Only in those Australia-Afghanistan and England-Sri Lanka victories on Saturday could have deprived New Zealand of a spot in the last four, but Ireland administered a test.

With a win over England or Ireland in their last two games, New Zealand will almost certainly qualify for the finals, with net run-rate firmly in their favour. Australia, England, Ireland, and Sri Lanka and Afghanistan will then compete for the last qualifying spot out of the group, needing to win their last two games to have a chance.

England's quest for the Twenty20 World Cup gets off in Australia on Saturday against Afghanistan. And although Jos Buttler's team is brimming with a slew of talent at both bat and ball, there are several sides in the tournament's second black ball tournament win in three years. Here Sportsmail takes a look at the five sides that will prove the toughest test if England are to lift the trophy next month

After winning the final one-day international in Cairns by 25 runs, Australia has whitewashed New Zealand 3-0 in the Chappell-Hadlee Series. The hosts took an unassailable 2-0 lead after winning by 113 runs at Cazaly's Stadium on Thursday, and captain Aaron Finch bowed out on a triumphant note in his last ODI match. On Saturday, Finch, the captain of Australia's T20 World Cup on home soil next month, announced that he was retiring from one-day cricket.

Australia clinched the series against New Zealand after a 113-run victory on Thursday, with Adam Zampa taking his first five-wicket haul in one-day international cricket. After being sent in, Australia's top order failed and collapsed to 54-5, but the home team roared to post 195-9. Steve Smith scored 61, while Mitchell Starc (38) and Josh Hazlewood (23) married for an unbeaten 47. In response, New Zealand was tilated for 82, with legspinner Zampa returning 5-35 from nine overs, with three of them being ruled lbw.