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Mitchell Santner received the Player of the Match award.
New Zealand has defeated England by 423 runs in the Hamilton Test. This is the Kiwis’ biggest win over England by run margin. In the third test, the English team, which was chasing the target of 658 runs, could score only 234 runs. However, England won the 3-match Test series 2–1. The team won the first match by 8 wickets and the second match by 323 runs.
On Tuesday, the fourth day of the match at Seddon Park, England started play with a score of 18/2. Jacob Bithell played innings of 76 runs and Joe Root played innings of 54 runs. While Gus Atkinson contributed 43 runs.
New Zealand’s Mitchell Santner scored 76 runs and took 3 wickets in the first innings. He scored 49 runs and took 4 wickets in the second innings. For this performance he received the Player of the Match award. England all-rounder Harry Brook was named Player of the Series.
On Saturday, England won the toss and chose to bowl first. In the first innings, New Zealand scored 347 runs and England scored 143 runs. New Zealand scored 453 runs in the second innings and gave England a target of 658 runs.
New Zealand’s joint biggest win New Zealand defeated England by 423 runs. This was the team’s joint biggest win by margin of runs. Earlier, the team had also defeated Sri Lanka by 423 runs in Christchurch in 2018. This is the team’s biggest victory against England.
Tim Southee’s last test match This was the last test match of New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee. He had announced his retirement from Test cricket even before the series started. Announcing his retirement, the 35-year-old Saudi had said – If our team qualifies for the WTC final, I will be available.
New Zealand all out at 453 in the second innings on the third day New Zealand team was all out for 453 runs in the second innings. New Zealand’s star batsman Kane Williamson scored a century. He scored 156 runs on 204 balls. Apart from them, Will Young and Daryl Mitchell scored 60-60 runs. Mitchell Santner scored 49 runs and Rachin Ravindra scored 44 runs. Tom Blundell remained unbeaten after scoring 44 runs. Jacob Bethel took maximum 3 wickets for England. Ben Stokes and Shoaib Bashir took 2-2 wickets. Thuy Potts, Gus Atkinson and Joe Root got 1 wicket each. Read the full news…
On the second day, England were limited to 143 runs in the first innings. The performance of England’s batsmen in the first innings was very poor. Joe Root scored the highest innings of 32 runs in 42 balls with the help of 6 fours. Captain Ben Stokes scored 27 runs in 43 balls and Ollie Pope scored 24 runs in 42 balls. For New Zealand, Matt Henry took the maximum of 4 wickets for 48 runs in 13.4 overs. At the same time, William O’Rourke and Mitchell Santner had 3 wickets each. Read the full news…
Latham-Santner scored half-centuries on the first day New Zealand made a strong start in the Hamilton Test against England. By the end of the first day’s play on Saturday, the team had scored 315 runs losing 9 wickets. Mitchell Santner returned unbeaten on 50 runs. Read the full news…
Playing-11 of both teams New Zealand: Tom Latham (captain), Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tom Blundell, Matt Henry, Tim Southee and Will O’Rourke.
England: Ben Stokes (captain), Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Jacob Bethel, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ollie Pope (wk), Matthew Potts, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carse, Shoaib Bashir.