09/02Result

1st ODI (D/N), England tour of New Zealand at Wellington, Feb 9 2008

New Zealand won by 6 wkts (120b rem)

Player of the Match

END OF OVER:
30 | 3 Runs | NZ: 131/4 | RR: 4.36

Ross Taylor24 (39b)
Peter Fulton1 (3b)

Stuart Broad9-2-26-3
Ryan Sidebottom9-1-34-1

Close A great recovery from New Zealand after the Twenty20 drubbings. They outplayed England in every department on a sluggish pitch. England never got their innings going, largely because of tight bowling and enthusiastic fielding, and some of the running between the wickets was dire. It's hard to defend 130 and once the NZ openers had got them off to a good start, the rest was little more than going through the formalities.

The two Andrews - McGlashan and Miller - will be back for the second ODI in Hamilton on Tuesday (2.00pm / 0100GMT) but in the meantime thanks for sticking with us and for all your emails, and it's goodnight from Martin Williamson and Will Luke.

29.6

Broad to Taylor, 1 run, and that's it, but a horrible swish through mid-on to seal the win

The crowd are cheering every swipe and it appears to have got to him!

29.5

Broad to Taylor, no run, a big swing, a big miss and the ball heads past the off stump to Mustard

29.4

Broad to Taylor, no run, short, he pulls out of an intended swipe to leg quite late on

Stay with us ... it's almost over ...

29.3

Broad to Fulton, 1 run, a loose drive, the ball keeps low, takes the edge and bumbles to third man

29.2

Broad to Taylor, 1 run, heaved to deep square leg

29.1

Broad to Taylor, no run, hit on the pads so far outside the line that you could see all three stumps behind him ... but Broad still yells a loud and long appeal

England tour of New Zealand 2007-08 News

A few alarms but no surprises
New Zealand's showing in the ODIs against England was about par for the course for them
Gayle and his struggle against Vaas
For a batsman of his ability, the manner in which Gayle has been dominated by Vaas is amazing - seven dismissals for ten runs in all
IPL players will arrive late for England tour
Five New Zealand players signed with the Indian Premier League have been given permission to miss the opening two matches of the England tour
Hoggard and Harmison back to county scene
Steve Harmison and Matthew Hoggard will have the opportunity to fight for their England places from the start of the domestic season after being released to their counties for all the matches ahead of the first Test against New Zealand
Sidebottom makes the difference
Stats review of the three-Test series between New Zealand and England

New Zealand INNINGS		R	B
JD Ryder	caught	31	50
BB McCullum	caught wk	42	42
JM How	caught wk	28	41
LRPL Taylor	not out	24	39
SB Styris	caught	0	5
PG Fulton	not out	1	3
JDP Oram
DL Vettori
KD Mills
JS Patel
CS Martin
EXTRAS	(b 2, lb 2, w 1)
TOTAL	131 (4 wkts; 30 ovs)

England BOWLING	O	M	R	W	Econ
RJ Sidebottom	9.0	1	34	1	3.77	(1w)
JM Anderson	5.0	0	35	0	7.00
SCJ Broad	9.0	2	26	3	2.88
GP Swann	3.0	0	17	0	5.66
PD Collingwood	4.0	0	15	0	3.75

New Zealand 2nd innings Partnerships

Wkt	Runs	Players
1st	61	BB McCullum	JD Ryder
2nd	22	JM How	BB McCullum
3rd	39	JM How	LRPL Taylor
4th	5	SB Styris	LRPL Taylor
5th	4	PG Fulton	LRPL Taylor

END OF OVER:30 | 3 Runs | NZ: 131/4 | RR: 4.36

A few alarms but no surprises

Gayle and his struggle against Vaas

IPL players will arrive late for England tour

Hoggard and Harmison back to county scene

Sidebottom makes the difference

END OF OVER:
30 | 3 Runs | NZ: 131/4 | RR: 4.36