England Beat New Zealand in 3rd 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. England already won the series 2-0 and this game is like dead rubber but still both teams will try to win this match as well.

The 3rd and final match of the series was to be played on MAL 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 3rd and final T 20 international match: Scott s, Jacob o, Brendon M (c & wk), Kyle Mills, Chris Martin, j Patel, J How, Peter Fulton, Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Tim S

And Eng team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd and final T 20 international match: James A, Paul Collingwood (c), Ian Bell, Kevin p, o Shah, Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom, Dimitri M, Luke Wright, Phil Mustard (wk), Graeme Swann

England batted very well and was able to score 205 runs in allotted 20 over’s at the loss of only 7 wickets and with contributions of Dimitri M C who made 74 runs in 50 balls with 6 4’s and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls faced and O Shah made 60 runs in 20 balls with 5 four’s and 6 sixes at the strike rate of 300 runs in 100 balls faced.

New Zealand was needed to score 206 runs in allotted 20 over’s to win this 3rd and final T 20 match.

New Zealand batted poorly and was only able to make 120 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 over’s and with the contribution of J Oram who made 50 runs in 30 balls with 4 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 167 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 85 runs and O Shah was the Man of the match for his fine batting.

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