England Beat New Zealand in 1st T 20 in Bilateral Series

England was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International matches series in New Zealand. Both teams are playing very good cricket till time and it will be very interesting to see both battle it out in this series. But England hold the upper hand as per its past performance but you can never know with cricket and T 20 matches.

The 1st match of the series was to be played on Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means England will bat first. This is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st T 20 international match: Scott Styris, Jacob Oram, Brendon McCullum (c & wk), Kyle Mills, Chris Martin, Jeetan Patel, Jamie How, Peter Fulton, Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee

And Eng team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st T 20 international match: James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Owais Shah, Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Luke Wright, Phil Mustard (wk), Graeme Swann

England batted very well and was able to score 184 runs in allotted 20 over’s at the loss of only 8 wickets and with contributions of Kevin P who made 43 runs in 23 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 187 runs in 100 balls faced and Dimitri M made 31 runs in 14 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 221 runs in 100 balls faced.

New Zealand was needed to score 185 runs in allotted 20 over’s to win this 1^st T 20 match.

New Zealand batted poorly and was bowled out for only 152 runs in 19.2 over’s and with the contribution of J oram who made 61 runs in 40 balls with 7 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 152 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 32 runs and Dimitri M was the Man of the match for his fine batting.

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