Playing like batters with factors to show, Harry Brook and Dawid Malan have guided England to the simplest of wins over New Zealand within the first of 4 Twenty20 internationals between the groups.
Brook (43 not out off 27 balls) and Malan (54 off 42) shared a 54-run partnership on Wednesday as England reached their goal of 140 with six overs to spare at Chester-le-Street for a seven-wicket victory.
England’s selectors surprisingly left Brook out of the squad for the 50-over World Cup in India beginning in October however his type is making a mockery of that call.
Widely considered as one of many world’s most damaging batsmen, he starred within the just lately accomplished version of The Hundred and was devastating in opposition to New Zealand in hitting three sixes and two fours.
Malan bought a much-needed large rating after some patchy current type, reaching fifty for the sixteenth time in T20 internationals and serving to to regular the innings after the early lack of Jonny Bairstow (4) in England’s reply to New Zealand’s 9-139.
Liam Livingstone (10) bought England over the road with an enormous pull for six, whereas Jos Buttler, England’s captain and star batter, wasn’t even wanted to bat.
Malan and Livingstone are in England’s World Cup squad and Brook is placing big stress on selectors to get the decision, too, with the group heading for India not having to be finalised till the tip of September.
Put in to bat, New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips was the guests’ top-scorer with 41 off 38 balls however the Black Caps struggled after dropping three wickets in 12 balls from 0-25.
Pace bowler Brydon Carse had 3-23 off 4 overs on his T20 worldwide debut whereas Luke Wood, who was hit for 3 sixes by Finn Allen (21) off the primary over of the match, had figures of 3-37.
The second match of the sequence is in Manchester on Friday.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
