England clinch super over game to win New Zealand T20 series 3-2
Last updated on: 10 November,2019 01:37 pm
It was a remarkable finish to a rain-delayed game that contained a staggering 29 sixes in 24 overs.
AUCKLAND (Dunya News) – England clinched the Twenty20 series against New Zealand almost four months after the World Cup ended with a dramatic super over, as the deciding Twenty20 in Auckland went the same way on Sunday.
The second best Super Over of 2019 - but what a way to finish both a game that had looked damp tissue-paper earlier, and a series between two sides which were so tricky to divide.
England, chasing 147 in a rain-affected 11-over game, needed 16 runs from the final over to wrap up the five-match series.
When England lost Tom Curran to the third ball of the over, needing 13 to win, it looked as though New Zealand might edge it.
New Zealand plundered 146-5 from 11 overs, and it took Chris Jordan hitting 12 off the final three deliveries to take the game to a super over.
Jonny Bairstow, who earlier struck 47 off 18 balls, and captain Eoin Morgan scored 17 off England’s six deliveries, before Jordan limited New Zealand to eight.
It was a remarkable finish to a rain-delayed game that contained a staggering 29 sixes in 24 overs.
While England, who won the World Cup final by virtue of scoring more boundaries, held their nerve in admittedly less pressurised circumstances, New Zealand will take little comfort from once again missing out by the thinnest of margins.
In a match reduced to 11 overs per side because of rain, Guptill and Colin Munro gave New Zealand a flying start after they lost the toss and were sent into bat.
Guptill peppered the short Eden Park boundaries with five sixes and three fours and needed only 19 deliveries to reach his 50 before being removed by Adil Rashid one ball later.
Munro had four sixes and two fours in his 46 off 21 balls.
The first of two Tests between New Zealand and England starts in Tauranga on November 21.