New Zealand defeated England :
In the match played yesterday i.e. on 5/10/2023, in which England and New Zealand were face to face, New Zealand won the match with its better bowling and batting.
New Zealand won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited England to bat. traipsing first, England set a respectable target of 282/9 runs. The England platoon, which came to chase the target, won the match in just 36.2 overs with its good fur and gave a crushing defeat to England.
Match scorecard :
England’s Joe Root scored 71 runs in 86 balls and Jos Buttler scored 43 runs in 42 balls. Matt Henry of the opposition team New Zealand took 3 lattices for 48 runs in 10 overs, Mitchell Santner and Glenn Phillips took two wickets each, Trent Boult and Rachit Ravindra took one wicket.
The New Zealand team, which came to chase 282 runs, lost only one wicket. While chasing the target, Devon Conway played a brilliant inning of 152 runs facing 121 balls and Rachit Ravindra, who came to support him, also scored 123 runs facing 96 balls and scored his first century. Sam Curran of the opposition team could get only one wicket for his team, due to which England lost the match.
