New Zealand beaten By England in 3rd T 20 Match of 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. Series is leveled at 1-1 and the winner of this last T 20 match will take the series.

The 3rd and final match of the series was to be played on Lords, London, England. 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 M, j Patel, J How, J 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 S, Dimitri M, M Wright, Phil Mustard (wk), Graeme Swann

England batted very well and was able to score 150 runs in allotted 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and with contributions of Kevin P who made 50 runs in 50 balls with 4 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls faced and S Broad made 30 runs in 30 balls with 2 four’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls faced.

New Zealand was needed to score only 151 runs in allotted 20 over’s to win this 3rd and final T 20 match and series as well.

New Zealand batted poorly and was only able to make 80 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets in 20 over’s and with the contribution of J patel who made 20 runs in 50 balls with 1 four and 1 six at the strike rate of 40 runs in 100 balls.

England won the match by 70 runs and Kevin P was the Man of the match for his great batting at difficult pitch and conditions.

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