{"id":89734,"date":"2025-10-20T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89734\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:40:07","slug":"black-caps-v-england-result-new-zealand-hammered-in-christchurch-as-t20-series-victory-hopes-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/89734\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps v England result: New Zealand hammered in Christchurch as T20 series victory hopes dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A haul of 4\/32 from spinner Adil Rashid, though, largely kept New Zealand in check, and ensured that England never had to worry about their total being overtaken.<\/p>\n

As was the case against Australia at Bay Oval to start the season<\/a>, the Black Caps can only seal a series draw in the finale. <\/p>\n

But on some of the shortest boundaries in the world at Eden Park, against a batting unit that found their mojo, the Black Caps could be staring at even worse against a Brendon McCullum coached side, eager to put their foot on their hosts\u2019 throat before the ODI series begins next weekend. <\/p>\n

\"England'sEngland’s Phil Salt and Tim Seifert of the Black Caps. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

Having restricted England to 153\/6 in game one<\/a>, Santner had no hesitation to attempt a repeat in game two, after winning the toss and bowling first again. His decision did not age well.<\/p>\n

After reducing England to 68\/2 at the end of the powerplay, as Jacob Duffy (1\/44) and Michael Bracewell (1\/36) removed Jos Buttler and Jacob Bethell respectively, Brook and Salt combined to hit the Black Caps attack to all parts of Hagley Oval.<\/p>\n

Brook dominated the partnership, and cleared the pavilion no fewer than three times, while Salt still managed to add 46 in a support role. <\/p>\n

Salt needed 32 balls to raise his half-century, with seven fours and one six. Brook went even better, and took just 22 balls, with four boundaries and three sixes, as the pair raised a century stand in 53 deliveries.<\/p>\n

The Black Caps could have seen the back of Brook for 39, when he was put down at long-on by Jimmy Neesham off Matt Henry. <\/p>\n

England\u2019s captain would double his score from that point, before he hit Kyle Jamieson (2\/47) to Tim Robinson at deep midwicket, before Salt perished two balls later when he couldn\u2019t clear Bracewell at long-off. <\/p>\n

The damage wasn\u2019t done, though. A Sam Curran six off Jamieson saw England over 200, before an edge over third man from Tom Banton (29 not out) took the visitors to 209 – the highest total batting first in a T20 International at Hagley Oval.<\/p>\n

And as the fifth-wicket pair hit an unbeaten 38 runs from the last 14 balls, the Black Caps faced a record chase to take a 1-0 series lead.<\/p>\n

Asked at just under 12 runs per over, Tim Robinson got off the mark with a straight six, but was out for seven when he chipped Brydon Carse (2\/27) to Jordan Cox at mid-on to start the second over.<\/p>\n

Batting for the first time since he was ruled out of the 2-0 series loss<\/a> to Australia, Rachin Ravindra hit his first two balls to the boundary – one over cover and the other pulled over midwicket. His third, though, was a thin edge off Carse that carried to Buttler, that left the Black Caps 18\/2.<\/p>\n

The third wicket pair stemmed the flow of wickets, and reached the end of the powerplay at 60\/2, on their way to a half-century stand in 32 balls – raised when Seifert hit Rashid over the pavilion.<\/p>\n

In response, Rashid and spin partner Liam Dawson (2\/38) stopped the Black Caps\u2019 recovery, and took four wickets in as many overs to end any faint chance of a Kiwi win. <\/p>\n

Mark Chapman had played his part in supporting Seifert, but as the required run rate climbed towards 14 per over, the left-hander hit Dawson to Cox at long-on for 28, and broke the partnership for 69 in the 10th over.<\/p>\n

Needing 147 runs from the last 60 balls, Seifert played one shot too many, and top edged a slog sweep to Cox at long-on. One over later, Bracewell fell in identical fashion, when he hit Dawson to long-off for two.<\/p>\n

By the time Daryl Mitchell holed out to Salt at deep midwicket off Rashid for nine, the Black Caps had fallen from 87\/2 to 104\/6, with the target pushed to three runs per ball.<\/p>\n

Some lusty blows from Santner, including 23 from Dawson\u2019s final over, added some credibility to the scorecard. A flick to fine leg off Curran raised the 50-stand with Neesham off 21 balls, albeit with the target being 80 runs from the final 25 balls at the time. <\/p>\n

But when Santner and Neesham (17) fell in Rashid\u2019s final over, any chance of the most improbable heist died, and saw England put one hand on the series trophy.<\/p>\n

England 236\/4 (Salt 85, Brook 78; Jamieson 2\/47)<\/p>\n

New Zealand 171 all out (Seifert 39; Rashid 4\/32)<\/p>\n

England win by 65 runs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A haul of 4\/32 from spinner Adil Rashid, though, largely kept New Zealand in check, and ensured that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9331,9092,806,67650,1558,7022,42574,4487,10712,67649,49156,1634,67647,305,3012,78,5836,117,111,43,139,69,12229,1963,67648,67651,49118,8982,80],"class_list":["post-89734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-chance","tag-against","tag-as","tag-beaten","tag-been","tag-black","tag-caps","tag-christchurch","tag-claiming","tag-comprehensively","tag-dashed","tag-england","tag-hammered","tag-have","tag-hopes","tag-in","tag-lost","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-result","tag-series","tag-t20","tag-threematch","tag-twenty20","tag-victory","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}