Match Details

ENG vs NZ 1st T20, ENG vs NZ 2023

ENG

143-314.0

England won by 7 wickets 🏆

20.0139-9

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Scorecard

Session	Open	PASS
6 Over	51	61
10 Over	93	94

Session	Open	PASS
6 Over	47	38
10 Over	72	64
15 Over	102	96
20 Over	136	139

Commentary

So, England takes the lead after the first T20I between England and New Zealand. Still three more to come in this format and the Black Caps will look to scratch through and thrust back.

This marks the end of the coverage. This is Arijit Kundu, signing off alongside good friend and fellow commentator- Deepak Prakash. Chandan Kumar Singh was the scorer/analyst for this game. Stay tuned to this network for many more cricketing actions across the globe.

Jos Buttler (England Captain): "Yeah, delighted, I think in the powerplay, Finn Allen with the three sixes. I think to come back and take the wickets, it was brilliant. Brydy bowled with great skills and ability. Luke Wood, after the first over, he came back brilliantly.

[Speaking about debutant Brydon Carse] Yeah, Fantastic start from him here on his home ground, I thought he bowled with great skill, and at a good pace. Yeah. So we've given guys opportunities and we stood up today and taken his.

Yeah, exactly, he is a class player. Yeah, he bowled brilliantly. I think Moeen bowled brilliantly as well, as well as Rashid did."

Tim Southee (New Zealand Captain): "We tried to take as many wickets as we could. We are looking to assist with the conditions. It's very much staying through our style.

Glenn Phillips has been phenomenal for us throughout [ on enquiring about Glenn Phillips score as one of the positives]. And especially, in sticky situations, he has been phenomenal to do the job for us and stay around. Yeah, we will look to try and keep things around."

Brydon Carse (Player of the match): "Obviously a great start to my T20 career. Yeah, look, I just tried to keep to my strength to try and hit the top of the stumps, and tonight it paid off. Look, sometimes it can be a bit too paced, especially through the middle, but I think in the power play tonight as well, there were some balls that skidded through and some that maybe just held up a little bit. So again, look, just tried to keep to my strength and bash the wicket as hard as I could. I played here now almost ten years, and to put a performance like that tonight is a special feeling."

Player of the Match: Brydon Carse

1:25 AM IST, 20:55 Local Time: The ankle is all fine, the arm is rolling well and the ball sails over the ropes as if a broken star intercepts the view of the full moon in the night sky. Liam Livingstone shines bright in the final ball, very much like the pale moon in the night sky.

England are victorious in the first T20I and does it with seven wickets and six overs to spare.

As expected, the chase transpired to be a cakewalk for the Three Lions who did it on the back of their batting prowess. Although Jonny Bairstow was removed early by the skipper Tim Southee, Will Jacks, and Dawid Malan took on the Kiwi bowlers. They stitched 57 runs together for the third wicket before Harry Brook replaced Jacks (22 off 12).

Malan and Brook glued a crucial fifty-plus runs stand that acted as the bedrock for the chase. While the southpaw acted as the grafter, Brook smashed the bowlers apart. With the passage of time, the English team were approaching towards an easy win. Although Lockie Ferguson removed Malan after the latter got to his 16th half-century in T20I cricket, the job was already done by then. Liam Livingston joined the party and finished things off in style.

The first T20I carried a lot of anticipation and excitement in the air but the fight didn't yield out to meet the expectations. It was rather a one-sided affair where the Englishmen dominated the Kiwis.

Earlier, the contest initiated with two dot balls followed by three consecutive sixes from Finn Allen against Luke Wood. The Black Caps were off to a flyer at the start but were countered by the pace trio of Sam Curran, Brydon Carse, and Wood. Wood removed Conway to draw the first blood and Carse, the debutant got the better of Allen. It was followed by a third wicket in the powerplay when an off-cutter pranked Tim Seifer to uproot the timber.

Glenn Phillips came in at no. 4 tailored 41 runs and stayed a long way in the innings. He fell short of partners as wickets kept on tumbling in regular intervals. Eventually, some great bowling effort from the home side restricted the New Zealand innings to 139.

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OVER 14

England

143/3

Liam Livingstone

10(4)

Harry Brook

43(27)

Adam Milne

0-30(3.0)

13.6 A Milne to L Livingstone

6 SIX! Livingstone finishes things in style! A comprehensive victory for the hosts in the first T-20I and they go 1-0 up in the 4-match series. Short of a length delivery banged into the pitch. Livingstone plants his foot and pummels it over the deep square leg for a maximum. England win by 7 wickets and 36 balls to spare.

Three more runs needed for the win.

13.5 A Milne to H Brook

1 Full-length outside off. Brook presses forward and pushes it to sweeper covers for a single.

The TV umpire is checking the boundary. It seems like the ball just landed short of the cushions and therefore its a four.

13.4 A Milne to H Brook

4 FOUR MORE! Straight down the ground! Full-length on the off-stump line. Brook gets his bat underneath the ball and tonks it straight down the ground. The ball falls just sort of the boundary cushion for four runs.

13.3 A Milne to H Brook

4 FOUR! Full-length at the stumps. Brook on the back foot swings across and connects it off the inner half of the bat and the ball races away to mid-wicket region for a boundary.

13.2 A Milne to H Brook

0 Good length on the stumps. Brook flicks it to short mid-wicket.

13.1 A Milne to H Brook

0 Oh, almost chopped on. Back of a length delivery angling in. Brook dabs it off the toe end of the bat and the ball goes on a bounce just over the stumps.

Adam Milne is back into the attack with the ball.

OVER 13

England

128/3

Liam Livingstone

4(3)

Harry Brook

34(22)

Lockie Ferguson

1-34(3.0)

12.6 L Ferguson to H Brook

1 Short of a length delivery angling on the leg stump. Brook pulls and gets the inside part of the bat towards fine leg for a single.

The TV umpire, Alex Wharf has been referred to for a run out chance. It is observed that Brook did manage to drag the bat inside the line before the stumps were broken. Not Out is the call.