Live Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nCoach Brendon McCullum could be forgiven for being worried about their batting, however.<\/p>\n
Brook\u2019s breathtaking knock in Mount Maunganui – where the England captain smashed 11 sixes in an innings of 135 from 101 balls to lift his side to a somewhat competitive total of 223 – saved face in the series opener.<\/p>\n
Although, there was no one to paper over the cracks this time around as No. 8 Jamie Overton top scored for the visitors with 42 from 28 deliveries.<\/p>\n
Brook (34) and Joe Root (25) the only other members of the English team to pass 20.<\/p>\n
For the Black Caps, fast bowler Blair Tickner was the destroyer, snaring 4\/34 from eight overs after coming into the side for Matt Henry, who was sidelined with a calf strain.<\/p>\n
It marked a memorable return to the ODI side for Tickner, having last featured two years ago.<\/p>\n
Nathan Smith (2\/27) was the only other multiple wicket-taker as the hosts shared the wickets between their six bowlers.<\/p>\n
The blame for most of the dismissals lay with England\u2019s batters, however.<\/p>\n
Jacob Duffy found the outside edge of Ben Duckett\u2019s (1) bat with the new ball, while Root was strangled down the leg side off the bowling of Tickner.<\/p>\n
Wicket-keeper batter Jamie Smith (13) threw away a start, caught at point when trying to launch over mid-wicket. <\/p>\n
So too did Jacob Bethell (18), who was caught at deep backward square leg immediately after a drinks break.<\/p>\n
Brook died by the sword as he tried to counter-attack, caught by a diving Will Young at point after slashing at the left arm spin of Santner. <\/p>\n
Jos Buttler (9), meanwhile, played across the line and was out lbw off Smith.<\/p>\n
The lower order offered resistance to scrap to 175 as they were 5\/81 when Buttler departed.<\/p>\n
It is a different format, and different coloured Kookaburra, but Australia\u2019s bowling attack would like what they have seen so far from their Ashes rivals across the Tasman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England\u2019s ODI batters are enduring a miserable time in New Zealand as Harry Brook\u2019s side slumped to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,147677,101243,4435,126492,147684,147678,147682,147681,653,38709,45901,17066,53630,101174,5093,45895,147683,137509,45886,1736,677,1948,51139,38710,85,147680,101244,147679],"class_list":["post-248837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-blair-tickner","tag-bowling-attack","tag-calf-strain","tag-drinks-break","tag-england-t20i-ampamp-odi-series-live-ampamp-exclusive-on-fox-cricket","tag-england-t20i-ampampamp-odi-series-live-ampampamp-exclusive-on-fox-cricket","tag-english-alarm-bells","tag-english-team","tag-fox-sports-news","tag-jacob-bethell","tag-jacob-duffy","tag-joe-root","tag-jos-buttler","tag-leg-side","tag-match-centre","tag-matt-henry","tag-miserable-time","tag-mitchell-santner","tag-nathan-smith","tag-new-zealand","tag-oceania","tag-pat-cummins","tag-run-chase","tag-series-opener","tag-sports","tag-straight-match","tag-wicket-keeper-batter","tag-will-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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