11/9/2022 0 Comments Captain claw rule 34![]() ![]() The 20 runs conceded from his 19th over took Woakes’s tally to 57 runs conceded in three overs at the death this tournament. ![]() His terrific new ball bowling, which accounted for Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson within the first three overs of New Zealand’s chase of 167, has emphatically vindicated his T20 recall.īut, for all his excellence in the Powerplay, Woakes has a poor pedigree at the death, where his length is often lined up. Yet England may question why Woakes was bowling the penultimate over of the match at all. He hit three six sixes in 11 balls England managed four in their entire innings on a wicket in which their batsmen struggled for timing.Īfter Mitchell flogged consecutive sixes off Chris Woakes, clinching victory by thumping a full toss for four, it meant that New Zealand had won the six-count by 8-4 - a margin so decisive that they had no need to worry about super overs. Neesham, whose super over six almost won New Zealand the ODI World Cup, promptly smote his third six in Adil Rashid’s next over. Rather than New Zealand needing 43 off 20 balls with five wickets in hand now they needed 37 off 20 with six still in hand. He had already made contact with the rope: New Zealand’s fourth six. But Bairstow’s flick was infinitesimally slower that it needed to be. Jonny Bairstow caught the ball and promptly threw it back to Liam Livingstone, who completed the catch. Once again it was intercepted by brilliant athleticism. Once again it was launched straight, this time over long on. The ball was spectacularly intercepted by Chris Jordan, one of the world’s best fielders, but as he flicked the ball back from beyond the boundary it landed on the rope: New Zealand’s second six of the night.Įven more agonising was a blow from Neesham off Jordan in the 17th over. In the 13th over, with New Zealand’s task approaching two runs a ball, Mitchell launched Rashid to long off. Just as years of work can be vindicated by barely explicable moments of happenstance - the bounce of a ball off the bat, or a tie-breaking rule - so they can be undone by them.Īs Eoin Morgan and the side traipsed off, punch-drunk after a dazzling late assault from Mitchell and Jimmy Neesham, their minds would have cast back ruefully to two moments. In Abu Dhabi, England’s T20 World Cup hopes were ended by another of their opponents' less heralded names, Daryl Mitchell, who crunched an undefeated 73 to seal New Zealand’s five-wicket victory.Īs New Zealand’s bench whooped in delight at how they had turned an arduous chase into a cruise - needing 57 from the last 24 balls, they got there with a whole over to spare - you suspect this clinical chase had gone a long way to easing New Zealand’s pain of Lord’s 2019.įor England, so outstanding in the early skirmishes of the tournament, and ascendant for vast swathes of New Zealand’s chase, here was another reminder of the cruelty of tournament cricket. ![]() Jimmy Neesham blasts 27 off 11 balls to kick-start NZ run chaseĭaryl Mitchell unbeaten on 72 as Black Caps win with six balls to spareįive years ago, it was Carlos Brathwaite in Kolkata. Moeen Ali's 51 not out guides England to 166Ĭhris Woakes takes two early wickets in New Zealand reply ![]() England vs New Zealand T20 World Cup: full scoreboard ![]()
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