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| First T20, Seat Unique Riverside, Chester-le-Street: |
| New Zealand 139-9 (20 overs): Phillips 41 (38); L Wood 3-37, Carse 3-23 |
| England 143-3 (14 overs): Malan 54 (42), Brook 43 (27) |
| England won by 7 wickets with 36 balls to spare |
| Scorecard |
England comprehensively thrashed New Zealand by 7 wickets with a nonrecreational show successful the archetypal T20 of their four-match bid astatine Chester-le-Street.
Switching formats for their archetypal enactment since the Ashes a period ago, the hosts romped to triumph successful a pursuit of 140 with six overs to spare.
They mislaid Jonny Bairstow to the 2nd shot of the pursuit but Dawid Malan made a composed 54 from 42 balls.
The left-hander fell with 24 needed from 48 but Harry Brook struck an unbeaten 27-ball 43 to instrumentality England location - 2 towering sixes reinforcing the astonishment astatine his omission from England's provisional squad for their 50-over World Cup defence successful India this autumn.
A composed bowling show from England acceptable up the triumph by restricting New Zealand to 139-9.
Luke Wood was deed for 3 sixes successful the archetypal implicit but recovered to instrumentality 3-37 portion gait bowler Brydon Carse claimed an awesome 3-23 connected his T20 debut - the tourists ne'er capable to get going aft their accelerated start.
The four-match bid continues connected Friday successful Manchester.
Wood & Carse impress
When Allen pumped Wood implicit mid-off earlier thrashing the left-armer doubly implicit the limb side, a people good successful excess of 160 looked likely.
But, having dragged their magnitude backmost successful the lack of new-ball swing, Wood nicked disconnected classy opener Devon Conway for 3 from 8 balls arsenic the turnaround began.
The gangly and pacey Carse bowled well, hitting a hard length. He conceded 1 from his archetypal implicit and bowled Allen successful his 2nd - the opener hitting 18 from his archetypal 5 balls but lone 3 from his adjacent 10.
Wood mixed his gait effectively. He bowled Tim Seifert with a slower shot for 9 and had Glenn Phillips, the lone New Zealand batter to endanger with 41 from 38, taken astatine long-off with different cutter - a wicket that ended immoderate hopes of a large decorativeness for New Zealand.
Bowling the last over, Carse past bowled Adam Milne with different magnitude shot earlier Ish Sodhi skied him to Sam Curran successful the deep.
In betwixt Wood and Carse's bursts, Moeen Ali, Liam Livingstone and Adil Rashid - England's 3 spinners who volition person a ample relation to play successful India - took a wicket apiece.
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