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Second Test, Wellington (day 3 of five)
England 280 (Brook 123; Smith 4-86) & 427-6 dec (Root 106, Bethell 96)
New Zealand 125 (Atkinson 4-31, Carse 4-46) & 259 (Blundell 115; Stokes 3-5)
England won by 323 runs; pb three-match bid 2-0
England powered to a bid triumph implicit New Zealand with an emphatic 323-run triumph wrong 3 days of the 2nd Test successful Wellington.
After mounting the location broadside a mammoth 583, England battled precocious winds, the menace of showers and Tom Blundell's swashbuckling 115.
Chris Woakes and Brydon Carse reduced New Zealand to 59-4 earlier Blundell lit up a grey time with his battle connected off-spinner Shoaib Bashir.
The wicketkeeper deed Bashir for 4 sixes until his attempted expanse astatine the aforesaid bowler was brilliantly caught by the quick-thinking Ben Duckett moving astir from slip.
Ben Stokes ran done the process for 3-5, his champion Test figures successful much than 2 years, to permission New Zealand 259 each out.
The borderline of triumph is England's biggest successful presumption of runs against New Zealand. It gives Stokes' broadside their archetypal distant bid triumph successful 2 years and their archetypal triumph successful this state since 2008.
England already had this lucifer successful their grasp connected Sunday, erstwhile they resumed connected 378-5 successful their 2nd innings and a pb of 533.
Joe Root, 73 not retired overnight, completed his 36th Test period with a trademark reverse-scoop disconnected gait bowler Will O'Rourke.
Root was retired for 106 successful the aforesaid over, prompting England to state connected 427-6. Stokes near himself unbeaten connected 49.
One insignificant interest for England is the fittingness of Harry Brook, who did not instrumentality the tract connected Sunday arsenic a precaution implicit a sore ankle.
England volition person the accidental for a cleanable expanse successful the 3rd Test successful Hamilton connected Saturday (22:00 GMT Friday).
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