England V New Zealand 2013

!st ODI New Zealand put England into bat
Eng 258 all out 49.3 overs
Trott 68 Bell 64 Root 56
McClenaghan 4-56 Franklin 3-38 Mills 2-32

New Zealand have a bowler called Andrew Ellis Is it our Mr Ellis
Is Ramsbottom in New Zealand

And the bad news is that the Kiwis have won the match by 7 balls

(17-02-2013 08:51 )Charlemagne Wrote:  the Kiwis have won the match by 7 balls

And 3 wickets. It was a thrilling match though and just slipped away from England at the end.

England always looked 20 runs light when they batted.With 2 new balls the gameplan is to keep wickets in hand for the last 10 overs,from 184-2 they lost 8-74.

Disappointing collapse with the bat .

England level the 3 match series with an 8 wicket win.
NZ 269 all out Taylor 100 B McCullum 74
Anderson 5-34 Woakes 3-68
Eng 270-8 Root 79 not out Cook 78 Trott 65

Another great performance by Anderson today with 5/34, after becoming England's leading international wicket-taker in the last match. Finn was also impressive today with 1/33 from his 10 overs.

I'm not a big fan of these small grounds.i would like to think that if England had batted first that they would,ve attacked the spinners more.Swann is a far better bowler than anything the Kiwis had to offer yet he went for more runs.

3 ODI NZ - 185 all out McCullum 79 Finn 3-27
ENG - 40-0 [6 overs]

England beat New Zealand by 5 wickets & take the series 2-1
NZ 185 all out (43.5 overs)
ENG 186-5 (37.3 overs)