The England Cricket team has been defeated by New Zealand in the first ODI played at Seddon Park, Hamilton. New Zealand won the match by 3 wickets. With this victory, New Zealand has gone up by 1-0 in the 5-match ODI series.
The New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum won the toss and invited the English team to bat first. New Zealand got the first breakthrough pretty early. Alastair Cook was knocked over by Mitchell McClenaghan in the 4th over of the match when the score of England was 11.
Jonathan Trott came to bat at his usual first down position and he put up a good partnership with Ian Bell for the second wicket. Both of them added 84 runs for the second wicket. When the score was 95, Bell got out after playing a fluent knock of 64.
Joe Root was promoted in the batting order and he came to bat ahead of Eoin Morgan. The young Yorkshire batsman played another impressive knock. He scored a half century and added 89 runs with Jonathan Trott for the third wicket. Trott also completed his half century in the meantime.
The English batsmen didn’t manage to score too many runs in the slog overs. Only 68 runs were scored in the last 10 overs of the England innings.
The England team got all out in 49.3 overs at the score of 258. McClenaghan was the most successful bowler for New Zealand. He took 4 wickets.
New Zealand also had a poor start. BJ Watling was clean bowled off the bowling of James Anderson when only a couple of runs were on the board. When the score was 18, another opening batsman, Martin Guptill, had to go out of the field because of a hamstring injury.
Kane Williamson was playing solidly at one end, but, the wickets kept falling at the other end and towards the end, it seemed that New Zealand would fall short of the target. But, Martin Guptill returned back and along with his skipper Brendon McCullum, he saw his team home.
McCullum and Guptill remained unbeaten on 69 and 27 respectively.