New Zealand featured a high-profile show of Death Overs bowling on Tuesday, November 5th to challenge rampant England and win 2-1 in the Nelson Saxton Oval five-game series.
After New Zealand had stood on the back of another bruise of Colin de Grandhomme (55) in 180/7, it was on the mat and England prevailed in the chase at 139/2 on the 15th and needed 42 of the last 31 balls, with eight wickets in the hand.
But Eoin Morgan, who had already beaten two sixes in the Over Mitchell Santner, dared to hit the spinner with the left arm from the last ball of Over but threw it into the hands of Kuhecke. After New Zealand had been granted the least number of openings, it kicked in the door, snapping five gates for ten runs and handing over a jumbled England to a defeat of 14 runs.
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England lose 5️⃣ wickets in 10 runs to hand New Zealand a 14-run win in the 3rd T20I 🤯
— ICC (@ICC) November 5, 2019
The hosts lead the series 2-1.
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Morgan’s dismissal ended a 49-run stand with James Vince, who wanted to lead England to victory. After Morgan followed Sam Curran, who had seen six balls in the series before this game, for nine runs. Tim Southee, the New Zealand captain, felt the opportunity to kill himself, and the first signs of disorder emerged.
After Billings had collected three singles from the first three balls of Over, he demanded a single, which was then sent back by Vince. To his misfortune was the crew of New Zealand, which routinely implemented the quarter to halved chances and considered incredibly hard catches and superhuman exploits of the sportiness as commonplace. In this case, Colin Munro rushed from back to front and aimed a stump to hit them with a direct hit.
The triple-pass had raised the required pass rate back to the ten pass mark. Blair Tickner tightened the screws in his second game as an international cricketer by knocking down only five runs, including a wide, from the first five balls of the 17th over and the last, the decisive strike when Vince launched an uppish and into the middle out.
Lockie Ferguson’s double strike on Matchday 18 pushed England into a wall and from then on the choke was in full swing. Overall, England managed only one limit in the last 34 balls of the chase – a six.
It was far from how they had started when Tom Banton unfolded a series of boundaries in the beginning. Although he had already fallen in the third game, he had previously set the tone for England at 27. Dawid Malan and Vince then took advantage of the platform to consolidate themselves with a secondary winding level of 63. When it finally came to an end, it was a harmless shot of Ish Sodhi, who fell into the hands of Deep Midwicket, and that was the first sign that things would go wrong for England.
New Zealand had started much the same way as Guptill continued his strong form to take 33 of 17 balls and dominate with Munro the first-wicket level of 40. New Zealand lost both openers in the power play and Tim Seifert on the eighth over, whereupon de Grandhomme reconstructed the innings in the company of Ross Taylor.
Their fourth-wicket level of 66 was the highest in the innings, paving the way for Jimmy Neesham and Mitchell Santner, as New Zealand beat 44 runs in the last five overs and clinched an overall win.
