England Beat New Zealand in 2nd 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 2nd match of the series was to be played on AMI Stadium, Christchurch, New Zealand. England won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means New Zealand will bowl first. This is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd T 20 international match: Scott Styris, Jacob Oram, Brendon M (c & wk), Kyle Mills, Chris Martin, Jeetan Patel, Jamie How, Peter Fulton, Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Tim S

And Eng team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd T 20 international match: James Anderson, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Owais Shah, Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom, Dimitri M, Luke Wright, Phil Mustard (wk), Graeme Swann

England batted very well and was able to score 193 runs in allotted 20 over’s at the loss of only 8 wickets and with contributions of Skipper Paul C who made 54 runs in 28 balls with 5 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 193 runs in 100 balls faced and O Shah made 47 runs in 35 balls with 4 four’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 134 runs in 100 balls faced.

New Zealand was needed to score 194 runs in allotted 20 over’s to win this 2nd T 20 match.

New Zealand batted poorly and was only able to make143 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 over’s and with the contribution of J How who made 31 runs in 25 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 124 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 50 runs and Paul C was the Man of the match for his fine batting.

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