Kiwis level series
Monday, 23 June 2008
Tim Southee and Kyle Mills were the New Zealand heroes as they won a tense, low-scoring one-day international in Bristol to level the series 1-1, reports BBC.
Southee took 4-38 and Mills won the man of the match award after hitting 47 and taking 2-42 as England lost by 22 runs.
England let New Zealand off the hook, allowing them to make 182 after they had been in huge trouble at 75-6.
And they also collapsed horribly from 62-2 to 64-6 as Southee took three wickets in quick succession.
It may have been midsummer's day, but it was bitterly cold in the west country and with overcast conditions almost from start to finish it was always going to be a bowlers' day.
That said, both team's specialist batsmen had poor days, and were rescued by the lower order in each instance.
Paul Collingwood won the toss and soon after putting New Zealand in the England skipper would have been delighted with developments.
The tourists barely plodded along with the bat, from the moment Brendon McCullum speared James Anderson to wide mid-off at the end of the third over, to the end of the 48th, when the score was 150-7.
Anderson then allowed Kyle Mills and Grant Elliott to smash 18 off his final over and the Lancashire bowler's final analysis of 3-61 looked almost criminally expensive in the overall context of the match.
Mills added a second six and two fours in the final over, bowled by Luke Wright, before top-edging a catch off the final ball of the innings.
The most impressive of England's bowlers had been Stuart Broad, who bowled his 10 overs all in one spell, sent down four maidens, and picked up 2-14.
Southee took 4-38 and Mills won the man of the match award after hitting 47 and taking 2-42 as England lost by 22 runs.
England let New Zealand off the hook, allowing them to make 182 after they had been in huge trouble at 75-6.
And they also collapsed horribly from 62-2 to 64-6 as Southee took three wickets in quick succession.
It may have been midsummer's day, but it was bitterly cold in the west country and with overcast conditions almost from start to finish it was always going to be a bowlers' day.
That said, both team's specialist batsmen had poor days, and were rescued by the lower order in each instance.
Paul Collingwood won the toss and soon after putting New Zealand in the England skipper would have been delighted with developments.
The tourists barely plodded along with the bat, from the moment Brendon McCullum speared James Anderson to wide mid-off at the end of the third over, to the end of the 48th, when the score was 150-7.
Anderson then allowed Kyle Mills and Grant Elliott to smash 18 off his final over and the Lancashire bowler's final analysis of 3-61 looked almost criminally expensive in the overall context of the match.
Mills added a second six and two fours in the final over, bowled by Luke Wright, before top-edging a catch off the final ball of the innings.
The most impressive of England's bowlers had been Stuart Broad, who bowled his 10 overs all in one spell, sent down four maidens, and picked up 2-14.