England V New Zealand 2013

England are set to play New Zealand in back to back series & start the Tour officially on the 9th of Feb with the 1st of 3 t20 matches followed by 3 ODI's & 3 Tests before England are the hosts at the start of a busy International season.

England beat New Zealand by 40 runs in the 1st T20.They scored their highest T20 total 214-7,in reply New Zealand made 174-9.

Good performances all round by England.

Excellent batting, tight balling and they held their catches... Eoin Morgan's catch which saw the end of Brendon McCullum ( a superb back-pedalling catch over his right shoulder) was forever memerable.
Whereas New Zealand had 5 dropped catches

2nd T20 Nz Bt England by 55 run
Nz 192-6 B McCullum 74
Eng 137 all out Butler 54

England lost far too many wickets early on and the game was dead after about 10 overs of the England innings .
Very poor.

Today's match was lost when we won the toss and said that we would ball.

It left New Zealand with the best batting conditions and our batsmen facing a swinging ball in twilight conditions...

Broad & Giles got it badly wrong

bad day at the crease for the boys today,however to win the toss and bowl in a night game was suicidal in this form of the game.

England win the deciding match by 10 wickets
NZ 139-8 Guptill 59 Broad 3-15
Eng !43-0 Hales 80 no. Lumb 53 no.

(12-02-2013 14:42 )jimmyt73 Wrote:  to win the toss and bowl in a night game was suicidal in this form of the game.

It didn't stop England winning today and by 10 wickets too and with 7.2 overs to spare.

A brave decision all the same by Broad,honest enough in the last match to admit that they read the pitch wrong.