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- Updated: September 13, 2016
James Neesham’s last Test match, in Brisbane last November, wasn’t the happiest of experiences. Having just come back into the side after being deemed to have recovered fully from a stress fracture, he continued experiencing discomfort in his back while bowling, and was ruled out of the remainder of the series. Now, close to a year later, Neesham is back in New Zealand’s Test squad, and says he is back to full fitness, after a summer spent in England, playing limited-overs cricket for Derbyshire.
“The main result for me [from the Derbyshire stint] was I got through the whole season uninjured and basically had no issues with the back at all,” Neesham said, after New Zealand’s squad arrived in India. “So I suppose the aim now is to get the loading up again and make them good enough for Test cricket.”
Neesham said he had worked specifically, while in England, on getting back to cricket-fitness.
“It was more tweaking little things,” he said. “We did a lot of work on the rehab prior to the Australian series …
