{"id":213505,"date":"2025-10-20T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213505\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:25:07","slug":"england-in-new-zealand-phil-salt-harry-brook-power-tourists-to-victory-in-first-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/213505\/","title":{"rendered":"England in New Zealand: Phil Salt &#038; Harry Brook power tourists to victory in first T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Even with a good batting surface and a strong wind helping six hitting, a successful chase was always a long shot for New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They would be better served looking towards the dropped catch of Brook for a reason for defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wicketkeeper Tim Seifert also spilled a catch when Bethell sent a top-edge high into the wind on seven, while Sam Curran was dropped twice before ending on 49 in Saturday&#8217;s washout. It is rare problem for a side usually known for its fielding prowess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rashid missed a tough caught-and-bowled chance but England held onto 10 catches &#8211; eight of which were batters holing out in the deep.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Seifert and Mark Chapman put on a third-wicket stand of 69 from 48 balls, New Zealand had an outside chance, but Chapman fell to Liam Dawson and Seifert to Rashid in a collapse of four wickets in 3.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dawson&#8217;s figures of 2-38 were spoiled slightly by one over that cost 23. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Seamer Brydon Carse dismissed Tim Robinson with his first ball and nicked off Rachin Ravindra for eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was impressive in taking a timely 2-27, with Jofra Archer sure to take one of the pace bowling spots when England name their first World Cup XI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with a good batting surface and a strong wind helping six hitting, a successful chase was always&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-213505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}