New Zealand V England: Third And Final Men’s T20 – Live

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Teams successful full

New Zealand 1 Tim Seifert (wk), 2 Tim Robinson, 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Mark Chapman, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Michael Bracewell, 7 Jimmy Neesham, 8 Michell Santner (capt), 9 Zak Foulkes, 10 Matt Henry, 11 Jacob Duffy.

Teams successful brief

England instrumentality pinch a winning team. New Zealand make 1 alteration to their bowling, replacing large Kyle Jamieson pinch not-quite-so-big Zak Foulkes.

England triumph nan flip and vessel first

When there’s rainfall around, you bat second. Harry Brook is often unorthodox, but not that unorthodox.

Preamble

Morning everyone, evening everyone else, and invited to nan decider successful this Twenty20 series. A New Zealand win, nan 1 realistic consequence we haven’t had truthful far, will mean nan spoils are shared, which would look adjacent aft NZ had nan amended of nan washout successful nan first game. But immoderate different consequence present will manus nan bid to England – and that includes nary result, which is rearing its soggy caput again.

In Auckland tonight, arsenic successful Christchurch past Saturday, there’s a full batch of rainfall forecast for nan 2nd half of nan evening. Common consciousness mightiness beryllium mildly suggesting that this should beryllium a 10-over crippled from nan start. Half nan constituent of white-ball cricket, aft all, is to person a victor earlier bedtime. But, arsenic we each know, location are parts of cricket that communal consciousness cannot reach.

For England and their novice skipper Harry Brook, a triumph (or moreover a washout) would corroborate nan suspicion that they person remembered really to play T20. For New Zealand and nan acold much seasoned Mitchell Santner, it would show that they person ne'er forgotten. If you spell by results complete nan past year, England’s triumph nan different nighttime nudged them up of NZ. They now person 12 wins to NZ’s 11, while some person six defeats – and 2 washouts. Here’s hoping they don’t adhd to that past figure.

Play starts astatine 7.15am (UK time), each being well, and I’ll beryllium backmost soon pinch news of nan flip and nan teams.