So England win their 1st match in nearly 32 years. It seems that it's been that long doesn't it? Only just won though. Bit of a scrappy performance really. Good to see Freddie score some runs but the top order need to make sure that one man doesn't have to see us home. Anderson managed to take some wickets...which was nice...oh, and Virgil picks up another injury!
New Zealand won the toss and choose to bat on a flat, slow pitch that had already been played on earlier in the week. This really should have been an advantage to the Blackcaps...but our bowling was pretty good in places and we took wickets regularly.
New Zealand only managed 205 for 9 (remember the Aussies scored 289 on the same track this week!). England's batting worries me because, yet again, we have players getting a start and then failed to go on. If you want to win an ODI at least one player needs to score 100. Only Bell and Freddie managed to perform well. I think the latter has finally remember that he is a batsman and is enjoying not being upstaged by Figjam.
Another nail biter at the end. Should really have got home with 5 overs to spare instead of leaving it to the final over. That's the fault of the top order not keep up the run rate and leaving the work for others.
That all said, good to be back to winning ways. Pat on the back to Freddie.
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