England hammer New Zealand and seal place in World Cup semi-final
Cricket World Cup 2019 live scoreboard: England vs New Zealand
England head to Edgbaston to play India or Australia on July 11
England locked down their place in the World Cup semi-finals, as Jonny Bairstow's second successive century fired them to a dominant 119-run win over New Zealand.
Little more than a week after defeat to Australia left them fighting for their tournament lives, Eoin Morgan's men were making plans for their first appearance in the last four since 1992.
They are now guaranteed to finish third in the table and will face either Australia or India at Edgbaston on Thursday.
That they do so with their identity crisis over and morale peaking owes much to Bairstow's 106, a second bloody-minded hundred in four days that underpinned England's 305 for eight.
If his previous effort against India was an emotionally-charged response to his minor spat with Michael Vaughan, the follow-up deserves to be remembered for nothing other than its sporting brilliance - 106 runs, 14 boundaries, one six and a thoroughly decisive contribution.
It has become increasingly apparent that his opening partnership with the fit-again Jason Roy (60) represents England's ace in the hole, with the duo scoring their third consecutive three-figure stand and forging an advantage the Black Caps never wrestled back.
Things stalled once they exited, England reaching 194 for one from 30 overs and losing seven for 111 thereafter - but New Zealand's reply never threatened and they were brushed aside for 186.
Dangerman Kane Williamson was run out backing up via the tiniest of touches off Mark Wood's outstretched hand, with the seamer also helping himself to three for 34. Press Association
Michael Vaughan's player ratings
Eoin Morgan speaks
I thought we were outstanding today, starting with the two boys at the top of the order. Jonny a matchwinner again. I agree with Kane that the wicket did change – for some reason it started to slow up and became difficult to score freely. It was a matter of trying to get as close to 300 as possible.
[Will you bat first of you win the toss from now on in this tournament?] I think we can do both, if the wicket dictates 280 is par or 300’s par, it’s a matter of assessing the conditions. All the wickets in the tournament have got lower and slower as they’ve gone on, and if that’s the case we’ll continue to bat first.
The manner in which we’ve played in the last two games has been identifiable as our cricketing identity. Guys have played with freedom, played with intent, bowlers have continuously looked to take wickets.
No favoured opponent [at Edgbaston] – they're two very strong sides, we’ll just play our game.
Pakistan's chances ...
For Pakistan to qualify:
Beat Bangladesh by 311 runs after scoring 350
Beat Bangladesh by 316 runs after scoring 400
Beat Bangladesh by 321 runs after scoring 450
Biggest ODI win by runs: 290 runs (There have been two bigger wins by runs in List A cricket)#CWC19#WeHaveWeWill— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) July 3, 2019
England win by 119 runs
And England are in the semi-finals of the World Cup for the first time in 27 years.
Wicket!!
Boult st Buttler b Rashid 4
Umpire review
Boult st Buttler b Rashid
OVER 44: NZ 181/9 (Southee 6* Boult 0*) target 306
Mark Wood ends his ninth over with three for 34. Boult gives the last two balls the full face, nose over the splice. As we reach the last knockings, the PA belts out Sweet Caroline and like Pavlov's dog, it triggers the crowd to ape Neil Diamond long after the sound is turned down. .
Wicket!!
Henry b Wood 7 Castled as he backed away. Wood arrows it on to middle and leg and splinters the timbers. FOW 181/9
OVER 43: NZ 180/8 (Southee 5* Henry 7*) target 306
Rashid baffles Henry with his googly and the ball rips back in, whistles past off-stump and defeats Buttler two, going down for two byes.
Cue Sir David Attenborough:
OVER 42: NZ 176/8 (Southee 4* Henry 6*) target 306
Wood spears one into Henry's ribs that he defends with his glove and runs a single.
OVER 41: NZ 175/8 (Southee 4* Henry 5*) target 306
Adil Rashid returns. They work three singles off successive deliveries, Rashid fizzes one past Henry's outside edge as he props forward and Henry ends the over with a whip off his pads.
OVER 40: NZ 171/8 (Southee 2* Henry 3*) target 306
Root is the latest England fielder after Bairstow and Wood to make the old cricketers chunter about protecting themselves for the semi by galloping after a Henry cover drive and diving headlong to claw it back from the rope, grazing his chin in the process.
Wicket!!
Santner lbw b Wood 12 Dead as the dodo. A stonebonker. Couldn't have been more plumb. Spurious review but why not spaff it at this stage? FOW 166/8
NZ review
Santner lbw b Wood Walked across his stumps and the ball kept low.
OVER 39: NZ 166/7 (Santner 11* Southee 0*) target 306
Excellent by Plunkett, cramping the batsman. No wonder Morgan loves him so much. England are a far better side with him in it. Southee works a single off his pads, Santner flips one off his ribs over midwicket for another .
England players trying to injure themselves making pointless saves on the boundary is tremendous daftness.
— Dave Tickner (@tickerscricket) July 3, 2019
Wicket!!
Latham c Buttler b Plunkett 57Tried to pull a leg-stump off-cutter and feathered it off the top edge through to Buttler. FOW 164/7
OVER 38: NZ 164/6 (Latham 57* Santner 11*) target 306
Santner crashes four on the up through cover and Bairstow hurts his shoulder diving in vain to try to stop it before it crosses the boundary with a headlong dive. He keeps patting and rubbing his left shoulder - did he hyperextend it or land on the point? He hasn't gone off. Earlier Latham had driven for two and whipped a four through midwicket.
OVER 37: NZ 153/6 (Latham 50* Santner 7*) target 306
Fifty for Latham who scratched his way to double figures in this gutsy knock and has given glimpses of his true talent. Two singles off Stokes' over. He has one for 10 off five. Looks like England will finish third. If Australia beat South Africa on Saturday they will finish top and play NZ (or Pakistan if you're an incorrigible optimist) at Old Trafford on Tuesday. If they lose and India defeat Sri Lanka on Saturday, Virat Kohli and his boys are heading for Manchester. England are set for Edgbaston on Thursday, probably for a re-match with India given how poor SA have been.
OVER 36: NZ 151/6 (Latham 49* Santner 6*) target 306
New Zealand are simply trying to have a net in the midle now, protecting their wickets. Santner flips one off his hip over midwicket and they run three when Wood chases it down.
OVER 35: NZ 147/6 (Latham 48* Santner 3*) target 306
Five dot balls and a single off Stokes. He is maintaining a very tight fourth-stump line to the left-handers and neither can free his arms.
No real danger of NZ WC exit....
"If Pakistan bowl first on Friday they cannot get through on run rate - if they bat first and score 400 they would have to bowl Bangladesh out for 14." Cheers statman Andy Zaltzman for BBC Sport— Harry Everett (@HarryEverett_14) July 3, 2019
OVER 34: NZ 146/6 (Latham 47* Santner 3*) target 306
Latham is playing himself back into form so there is some solace for New Zealand. Woakes is creamed down the ground for four between bowler and mid-on. It sparks a pitch invader, clothed or not I do not know. Possibly a John Arlott 'freaker' given the sound of the crowd which is firmly on his side as he eludes his pursuers in the manner of Eddie Cavanagh but with more stamina. On and on it goes. Sky decorously refuse to show pictures. Pour pas encourager les autres.
It transpires it was a fleeting naturist sporting a green fright wig.
OVER 33: NZ 139/6 (Latham 41* Santner 2*) target 306
Woakes is a nimble fielder and pounces on a ball at cover diverted there by a Santner prod. He swoops picks it up and pivots midair to arrow a throw at the non-striker's that no'but just misses the poles. Another single and a leg-bye are the only other damage from Stokes' third over to leave him with 3-0-7-1
OVER 32: NZ 136/6 (Latham 40* Santner 1*) target 306
Latham ducks an Archer bouncer, flicks a single through midwicket and Santner gives it the maker's name. Archer persists with a length that seems too short to be effective. On come the drinks.
OVER 31: NZ 135/6 (Latham 39* Santner 1*) target 306
Mitchell Santner cracks the duck egg with a single driven with an open face to point. Latham excites the crowd when he pulls Stokes and it sails off the shoulder of the bat just over Buttler as he backtracked towards short fine leg.
OVER 30: NZ 133/6 (Latham 37* Santner 0*) target 306
Archer replaces Wood and comes in at half ratpower, bowling predominantly slower balls, protecting his side for the semi-final. Just the leg bye - which takes Latham off strike first ball, and Santner plays out five dot balls.
OVER 29: NZ 132/6 (Latham 37* Santner 0*) target 306
Stokes beams the smile of the expert long con artist who pulls off a rare coup. Latham square drives for a single. Ian Smith is exasperated by De Grandhomme, entertainingly so. They head into the semi-finals in poor shape given the frailty of the batting.
Wicket!!
De Grandhomme c Root b Stokes 3 Stokes bags a wicket with his first ball but Wood and Plunkett deserve the assist because the NZ No6 had his brain scrambled by their pace and bounce and patently didn't fancy it. He takes on Stokes' loosener and flaps a pull down Root's throat at deep backward square. FOW 128/6
OVER 28: NZ 128/5 (Latham 36* De Grandhomme 3*) target 306
England and Wood are roughing De Grandhomme up with real precision.
OVER 27: NZ 126/5 (Latham 35* De Grandhomme 2*) target 306
Plunkett, the minister for enforcement, restricts them to a single apiece but the most salient moment of the over is another extravagant play and miss by De Grandhomme who is having trouble with England's pace. That was the slower ball ... but all the same.
OVER 26: NZ 124/5 (Latham 35* De Grandhomme 1*) target 306
Perhaps there was a touch of seam movement in to Neesham as well as the low bounce. The batsman was playing a cut stroke with his bat at 135 degrees. Enter De Grandhomme. England believe the big man doesn't like it up him and the bouncer can't be far off. Wood twice beats him for pace, crashing one into his thigh pad and leaving him swishing outside off long after the ball had whooshed past his edge. Eventually he gets away with a scuffed drive past Wood who would have stopped it had he not come a cropper in his followthrough.
Wicket!!
Neesham b Wood 19 Wood comes round to Neesham, ratchets back his length and the left-handed all-rounder misjudged the bounce and dragged on. FOW 123/5
OVER 25: NZ 123/4 (Latham 35* Neesham 19*) target 306
Fifty partnership when Neesham flicks Plunkett off his pads for a single. Latham celebrates passing it with a superb cover drive that blazes a trail through the grass.
OVER 24: NZ 115/4 (Latham 30* Neesham 17*) target 306
These two continue to accumulate when Wood is brought back on. Wood begins with a brute of a bouncer that Neesham evades by hitting the deck but after a leg-bye, Latham tucks two off his midriff and glances three off his calf. Wood's line from round the wicket to the left-handed Latham is too focused on leg-stump.
OVER 23: NZ 108/4 (Latham 25* Neesham 16*) target 306
Rashid is given the big curly finger and sent back to fine leg. Plunkett returns and immediately applies the restraints. Latham flicks a single off his hip, Neesham glides one down to third man and Latham repeats his first scoring stroke of the over, cuffing two and taking on Bairstow's throw and winning.
OVER 22: NZ 104/4 (Latham 22* Neesham 15*) target 306
Now it's Root's turn to drag one down and Neesham tucks his napkin into his collar and gorges on it, carving it through point for four. Some players persuade cuts on their way, gliding them off the face of the bat. Neesham chastised that one brutally. The Auckland Wackford Squeers.
OVER 21: NZ 97/4 (Latham 20* Neesham 10*) target 306
No doubt that Rashid is impaired and he isn't using the googly with the same frequency as he did to become England's most effective white-ball bowler. Latham plays a gorgeous back-foot drive, smearing it down the ground for four. The NZ keeper then drives two to long on, sweeps two more and is beaten by the wrong un that Rashid saves for the end. Ten off the over.
OVER 20: NZ 87/4 (Latham 11* Neesham 9*) target 306
Singles off Root into the legside and one down to long off. Root is using flight and dip very well.
OVER 19: NZ 84/4 (Latham 10* Neesham 7*) target 306
Spin from both ends. Rashid replaces Plunkett. His shoulder soreness is still apparent as he fails to give it the rip he was imparting last year. Nine milked off the over and four belted off a long hop to end it.
OVER 18: NZ 75/4 (Latham 5* Neesham 3*) target 306
Joe Root replaces Wood and he runs through his experimental, freestyle routine of orthodox spinners, bebop sliders, a wrist spinner and the one-finger ball. Latham laps him for two and both tap singles to long on. Neesham squeezes a defensive into his pad and hares a single as the ball dribbles through the onside.
OVER 17: NZ 69/4 (Latham 2* Neesham 1*) target 306
Kiwis crack. England have bowled and fielded well but that was abysmal from Taylor, their most experienced player.
Wicket!!
Taylor run out 28 So much for an old head. Kamikaze attempt to make two. His call, too. Absolutely boneheaded judgment after hitting it crisply to Rashid at fine leg. You might have taken on Adil's throw five years ago, but he's improved exponentially under Morgan. FOW 69/4
OVER 16: NZ 68/3 (Taylor 27* Latham 2*) target 306
What a way to bag the opposition's best player. The luck of the local boy. Taylor still on strike and he takes out his frustration at seeing his captain sawn off by collaring a pull and belting it in front of square for four. Latham needs a long bat. Perhaps this is his opportunity to show us his class.
The Geordie Mankad:
Now THATS the way to run out a batsman backing up....#cwc2019
— simon hughes (@theanalyst) July 3, 2019
Wicket!!
Williamson run out 27 Spawny but they all count. Wood thrust out his hand to try to block Taylor's drive, the ball deflected off the tips of his middle and ring finger and deflected on to the non-striker's stumps catching the Kiwi captain, scrambling home after backing up, and 30cm short. FOW 61/3
Run out review
Wood flicks a drive on to the non-striker's stumps. Did he touch it? He did, I think.
OVER 15: NZ 61/2 (Williamson 27* Taylor 23*) target 306
Steve Cram is the latest Angel of the North to be picked out in the crowd. Sir Iron Bottom's plus ones have brought in the glitterati. Taylor late cuts two to third man and another single to Archer down there. Williamson drills one through cover.
OVER 14: NZ 56/2 (Williamson 26* Taylor 19*) target 306
Wood on his home patch was probably a shoo-in for the XI but was saying earlier that it would have suited Curran more. Five off Wood's second over, three of them to third man, two to square leg. Both are riding the skiddy pace and using angled bats to rotate the strike.
OVER 13: NZ 51/2 (Williamson 25* Taylor 15*) target 306
During a snippet of a Plunkett interview mid-over he tells us he relishes the challenge of being a partnership-breaker. If he can break this one in his first spell, England will feel victory is theirs. Four singles off the over, all using the length to swat or punch down to the point sweeper.
OVER 12: NZ 47/2 (Williamson 23* Taylor 13*) target 306
Double change with the Geordie, Mark Wood, coming on for Archer. He starts with a wide. Taylor strolls a leg-bye leaving Williamson on strike and the captain demonstrates his class with a lovely back-foot drive that bullets through point for four. Wood finds his length, line and top pace towards the end of the over and repairs some of the damage with three successive dot balls.
OVER 11: NZ 40/2 (Williamson 18* Taylor 13*) target 306
Afternoon, again. Liam Plunkett is the first change on his former ground, back in the day when he was a swing bowler and looked like this:
England's 'hit-the-deck' enforcer is taken for only three singles, finding his length. Both batsmen glide him down to third man and Taylor adds a fence into the off-side.
OVER 10: NZ 37/2 (Williamson 17* Taylor 11*) target 306
Shot of the innings when Jof overpitches, driven for four by Taylor. A few singles in here as well, nine off the over has at least given the Kiwis something to take home from the power play. I'm handing you over to Mr Bagchi.
OVER 9: NZ 28/2 (Williamson 16* Taylor 3*) target 306
Taylor nearly offers Woakes a return catch but it's out of range. Lovely drive from Kane.
OVER 8: NZ 21/2 (Williamson 10* Taylor 2*) target 306
I've upgraded Williamson's required score to a hundred and fifty.
Archer meanwhile bowls the fourth ball of the over for a bouncer again. Bit of a pattern there? Only a single off the over and England are bossing this right now.
OVER 7: NZ 20/2 (Williamson 10* Taylor 1*) target 306
Kane nudges Woakes away for four. Noice. But that the only scoring shot in the over...
OVER 6: NZ 16/2 (Williamson 6* Taylor 1*) target 306
Kane leans back and uppercuts over the slips, a high risk way to get a single you might say. but what else was on offer.
WICKET! Guptill c Buttler b Archer 8
Oh my goodness. That is a stunner from Jos. Absolute stunner. Guptill tries to nudge it and gets a big amount of glove in that, it takes a huge deflection. Buttler somehow got to that and Jonny Bairstow leads the celebrations as they mob Buttler, he knows just how good that was better than anyone. FOW 14/2
OVER 5: NZ 13/1 (Guptill 8* Williamson 4*) target 306
Guptill with a majestic straight drive that must have shaved the non-striker's stumps, so straight was it.
OVER 4: NZ 7/1 (Guptill 3* Williamson 3*) target 306
Fourth ball of this Archer as well is the bumper. Proper quick. Well played by Kane. I am so happy this guy is playing for England. Anyway, this is a maiden.
OVER 3: NZ 7/1 (Guptill 3* Williamson 3*) target 306
Kane shows his class with a lovely drive on the up for three. Clearly if they are going to win this then he's got to score a ton.
Massive period in the game now with the New Zealand skipper at the crease. As this @CricViz graphic shows, he has scored nearly a third of his team's runs in this World Cup. #CWC19#EngvNZpic.twitter.com/o0GM6JnmVx
— The CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst) July 3, 2019
OVER 2: NZ 4/1 (Guptill 3* Williamson 0*)
Jofra Archer. Spicy meatball fourth delivery, Martin has to take evasive action. Couple off the pads last ball of the over.
OVER 1: NZ 2/1 (Guptill 1* Williamson 0*)
Fine over from Woakes, he hit the opener in front on the knee roll and Umpire Ravi obliged. Looking again, that was probably going over the top, he played back and hopped and that was a poor bit of cricket from Henry Nicholls. Martin Guptill not a lot of use there either, one might add.
WICKET! Nicholls lbw Woakes 0
That's a short afternoon's work for Henry N, he has been trapped in front by Woakes and that's lbw. FOW 2/1
BACK BACK BACK
Baby, Tyers here, the New Zealand innings beginning and the splendid Mr Chris Woakes at the helm. We will soon see whether England's score is a meaningful one.
Good afternoon
Rob Bagchi here, relieving Alan Tyers, who has departed for the Gay Hussar and his weekly dose of smoked goose with a trade union baron. Sorry, wrong century. England were seriously contemplating 400 after 15 overs but deserve credit for still managing to rally when tied down by the Kiwis taking the pace off the ball and creaking beyond 300. England should be confident but then again, this from four years ago will stalk any survivors.
England post 305/8
Another superb start from Roy and Bairstow, who put on 123 in warm order. But then Roy chipped tamely to a man in the ring, which rather set the tone, England seemingly bamboozled by cutters. This led to accusations that the pitch was tacky or sticking, I dunno: it looked okay for Bairstow as he walloped a 99-ball 106. England will be happy enough with a score north of 300 but will have been hoping for a bit more. I still fancy them but it looked at noon that they had the game won so....
Just popping out for a bite and then we'll get to the reply. New Zealand require 306 to win.
OVER 50: ENG 305/8 (Plunkett 15* Archer 1*)
Jofra comes in but England cannot find the rope and that's the lot at 305.
WICKET! Rashid b Southee 16
A wicket for Southee, who has had a tough morning but never gives up. Yorks Rashid leg stump. FOW 301/8
OVER 49: ENG 299/7 (Plunkett 11* Rashid 15*)
This is more like it for England. Rashers four over mid off, Plunky smears a four, they're both swinging. Nothing much out of the coaching manual but it all counts at this stage. This stand is worth 27 in under three overs and most welcome it is too.
OVER 48: ENG 286/7 (Plunkett 4* Rashid 9*)
Pitch looked a treat earlier when Roy and Bairstow were whacking it hither and yon. I don't know if it's the softer balls, some clever use of the cutter, maybe even something in the atmosphere or just something mental/techincal in the English batting but the ball does not seem to be coming on nearly as well.
Adil has slapped a few in this over though. Mind you, he should have been caught by Tim Southee at long on. Adil launched Boult down the ground, and Tim could not oblige for his long-term partner, trying to take it one-handed running in and making a pig's ear of things.
OVER 47: ENG 277/7 (Plunkett 2* Rashid 3*)
Rashers comes in and runs his first one hard for a couple, they need the TV to check he got home. Looked home by a street to me but there you have it.
WICKET! Morgan c Santner b Henry 42
WHAT a catch that is. Off cutter, check drive, and not for the first time this innings an England batsman falls to a neither-fish-nor-flesh sort of a chipped shot. The difference this time though is that a tremendous leap is also required as Mitchell S flings himself in the air at mid off. FOW 272/6
OVER 46: ENG 272/6 (Morgan 42* Plunkett 1*)
That's the over England needed! Morgan goes aerial over mid off, he and Plunkett trade singles, Morgan drives for two and then pulls hard for four. 13 off the over and he pinches the strike off the last ball to boot.
OVER 45: ENG 259/6 (Morgan 30* Plunkett 0*)
Superb stuff from Neesham, who completes his five-over spell with one for 14 including a maiden, giving overall figures of ten overs one maiden two for 41.
56 balls without a boundary for England
— Chris Stocks (@StocksC_cricket) July 3, 2019
30 balls left, England need Morgan to face, ooh, 29 of them.
WICKET! Woakes c Williamson b Neesham 4
Another one! Neesham with a ball that just grips, sticks in the surface and Chris Woakes has chipped that, his timing awry, to mid off. About the best thing you can say about that knock from Woakesy is that he is out. He was going nowhere. FOW 259/6
OVER 44: ENG 254/5 (Morgan 28* Woakes 2*)
Santner again with an odd legside dart that is called a wide (and a half). But the rest of this over is welcome, and there are only five off it.
OVER 43: ENG 249/5 (Morgan 25* Woakes 0*)
Neesham continues a very handy spell, his cutters beguiling Woakes, who cannot get it off the square. And is in fact beaten a coupla times. Five dots to new man Woakesy.
Bookies still have England 3/1 on by the way.
OVER 42: ENG 248/5 (Morgan 24*)
Two runs and a wicket off the over. Your reminder that England were 194/1...
WICKET! Stokes c Henry b Santner 11
Another one falls. They couldn't, could they? England are now officially Struggling. Stokes dances down the pitch and lofts the ball as if laser guided to the man at long on. Henry barely has to move. FOW 248/5
OVER 41: ENG 246/4 (Morgan 24* Stokes 10*)
Five off Jimmy N's over. Not Jimmy Nail, although we are in the right part of the world. Jimmy Neesham.
OVER 40: ENG 241/4 (Morgan 23* Stokes 6*)
Santner bowling his left arm spin around the wicket to Morgs - and he's bowled one a yard down leg! Proper village effort that from Mitch.
Decent stuff for the rest of the over though, until another wide one last ball that Morgan helps on its way with a sweep.
After 30 overs, with England 194/1 and Bairstow 100* you wouldn't have been surprised to see 400. Or certainly 380. But the Kiwis have dragged themselves back into this well.
OVER 39: ENG 232/4 (Morgan 16* Stokes 5*)
Just three runs off this Neesham over.
OVER 38: ENG 229/4 (Morgan 14* Stokes 4*)
England were having a lovely summer time of it but it's all gone a bit dodgy prawn over the last ten overs or so, they're struggling and groaning and, with Stokes playing and missing a couple of times in this over, manage just three off it.
That was the second over of Southee's new spell and those 12 balls have gone for 11, bit more like it.
OVER 37: ENG 226/4 (Morgan 12* Stokes 3*)
Stokes! Donks it to mid off, sets off, yes no sorry. Morgan has to turn and dive back, Santner cannot do the business with the throw. Rather a dramatic end to a maiden over! Well bowled by Neesham.
OVER 36: ENG 226/4 (Morgan 12* Stokes 3*)
Tim Southee, in Mike Atherton's words "looks short of a gallop". Kane has to try and fiddle a few overs out of the bowler while England are in a rebuilding period and for four balls of this over that works okay. On the other two though, a short ball and a wider ball are pulled and square driven respectively, yielding 8 runs.
OVER 35: ENG 218/4 (Morgan 4* Stokes 3*)
But England are not short of batting talent, and the inform Stokes is the next man to try his luck.
WICKET! Buttler c Williamson b Boult 11
Well, well! New Zealand are having a great half an hour, a third wicket falls, Buttler totally mistiming his drive and dishing it up tamely to Kane W at wide mid off. Nice bowling that was, the cutter drew the false shot. Ah, knuckle ball on further look. Jos knew as soon as he'd hit it that it was curtains. FOW 214/4
OVER 34: ENG 214/3 (Buttler 11* Morgan 3*)
And that impression of a tourniquet increases after this Henry over, three off it. 28/2 in the last five overs...
OVER 33: ENG 211/3 (Buttler 9* Morgan 2*)
Kiwis getting a bit of a handle on things with those two wickets. Five runs off this over, relative famine, and well bowled by Boult.
OVER 32: ENG 206/3 (Buttler 6* Morgan 0*)
Henry welcomes Morgs to the crease with a bouncer.
WICKET! Bairstow b Henry 106
Ah, that is a shame. Nothing special in the ball, wide-ish and full, Jonny has a go at it and drags it on to his middle and off stump. Rewards for Henry, who has bowled well in very tough conditions. FOW 206/3
Bairstow salutes the crowd as he comes off, and they give him a tremendous hand.
OVER 31: ENG 200/2 (Bairstow 100* Buttler 6*)
England promote Jos, who gets off the mark with a crisp cover drive for four. Drinks at the end of the over.
Curious review from Joe Root I guess: the Kiwis looked sure that he'd hit it, so presumably they heard something. I suppose he just did not feel any contact. It came off the first ball of a new spell from T Boult.
WICKET! Root c Latham b Boult 24
Joe Root hooks at a ball that climbs and has got a very thing edge on it. Given out. He reviews, but without success. FOW 194/2
OVER 30: ENG 194/1 (Bairstow 100* Root 24*)
He has done it again! It's another brilliant innings from this brilliant young man. Jonny Bairstow tucks Southee off the hope, four runs. And again, flicked off the pads once more and it's four runs and a superlative hundred.
OVER 29: ENG 186/1 (Bairstow 92* Root 24*)
Yet another reminder of the relentless, low key genius of Joe Root as he passes 500 runs for the World Cup. He's made 24 here at a run a ball and the only time I noticed him was when he started bleeding. I mean that absolutely as a compliment.
OVER 28: ENG 182/1 (Bairstow 90* Root 22*)
Poor old Tim Southee is not looking at his best. Tough first assignment back, to say the least. Rudely heaved back over the bowler's head here from Bairstow... and it is six runs!
OVER 27: ENG 173/1 (Bairstow 83* Root 20*)
Root is okay. Neesham continues, there are five off the over.
OVER 26: ENG 168/1 (Bairstow 80* Root 19*)
Santner to Root. Seven off this over.
A delay at the end of it because Root needs some treatment - it looks like he has a nose bleed.
OVER 25: ENG 161/1 (Bairstow 76* Root 16*)
Bairstow taking dominance to another level as he actually hits a fielder with the ball! Bad bump strikes Henry in the chest at mid on.
Halfway stage and it's any price you like New Zealand for me at this point.
OVER 24: ENG 156/1 (Bairstow 74* Root 13*)
Filth from Santner, half tracker, battered away by England's ginger bruiser. Now Root gets down early and switches his hands to ramp the ball over where the slips would be. A reverse ramp? The switch scoop? Not even sure what to call that one.
OVER 23: ENG 145/1 (Bairstow 69* Root 7*)
Matt Henry is keeping his head above water though. Just four off this over, he has got through six for 27, a terrific effort in the context.
OVER 22: ENG 141/1 (Bairstow 68* Root 4*)
Santner to Bairstow. Pulled away hard and true. England's progress is more or less entirely unimpeded right now.
OVER 21: ENG 135/1 (Bairstow 63* Root 3*)
Henry to Bairstow, couple of singles off the over.
OVER 20: ENG 133/1 (Bairstow 62* Root 2*)
Southee to bowl. Root takes a single off the first ball. Southee to Bairstow, that's just too short at his pace and Bairstow clubs the ball dismissively through the legside for four. That main dish garlanded with two twos also in the over and England's progress seems to have overcome the Roy setback already.
OVER 19: ENG 123/1 (Bairstow 54* Root 1*)
Joe Root comes in and is soon off the mark.
WICKET! Roy c Santner b Neesham 60
Roy has chips a ball rather tamely to cover and is livid with himself as he stomps off, caught easily by Mitchell Santner. FOW 123/1 Roy would habitually have just cracked that through cover but instead just pulled his punch and it was a peculiar shot as it turned out.
OVER 18: ENG 111/0 (Roy 52* Bairstow 54*)
Refreshed by their drinks, a better over for the Kiwis, four off Southee.
The drinks interval
and thoughts turn as they so often do to the 1979 World Cup. Were YOU at Old Trafford in June that year when Canada were bowled out for 45 by Chris Old and Bob Willis? Nothing especially noteworthy about the low score... but they used up FORTY OVERS to make those runs. What a spectacle that must have been. It's a miracle cricket has survived as long as it has done, is all I'm saying.
OVER 17: ENG 111/0 (Roy 50* Bairstow 52*)
Jimmy Neesham comes on. Each England batsman reaches his fifty in this over. Both look extremely formidable - Bairstow continuing his excellent form. Roy perhaps even more impressive given that he had to sit out a couple of games with an injury, he has picked it right up. That's time for drinks.
OVER 16: ENG 107/0 (Roy 49* Bairstow 49*)
Quiet over for Santner, just three off it. New Zealand half the bowling side without Lockie Ferguson's express pace at this stage of the innings.
OVER 15: ENG 104/0 (Roy 47* Bairstow 48*)
Archetypal VERY USEFUL NEW ZEALAND CRICKETER Colin de Grandhomme comes into the attack. He's 32, he hits a heavy ball, he bowls respectable right arm medium, his first over has gone for 11. Bairstow using the rapier rather than the bludgeon in this over: two dabs through third man each for four.
OVER 14: ENG 93/0 (Roy 45* Bairstow 39*)
Santner. Roy. Ferocious smash through the covers. Not sure how New Zealand deal with this situation. It's all going one way.
OVER 13: ENG 86/0 (Roy 39* Bairstow 38*)
Might have to update the 'shot of the day' award: Bairstow's straight drive down the ground here for four off Henry.
OVER 12: ENG 78/0 (Roy 36* Bairstow 33*)
Santner back on. Shot of the day from Roy as he uses his wrists to hit inside out over long off.
OVER 11: ENG 68/0 (Roy 27* Bairstow 32*)
A single for Roy and then five dots, Matt Henry with the sort of over you dream of in conditions like this.
There's a good crowd in. Including North East royalty Robson Green, no less. I mean you want to talk about stardust.
OVER 10: ENG 67/0 (Roy 26* Bairstow 32*)
Trent Boult has been warned for running on the pitch. Nasser attributes this to a lower arm action, which makes it harder for him to get off the pitch. Anyway, warning aside, his method works well in this over: there is just one off it.
Even still, a great start from England, 67 without loss in the powerplay.
OVER 9: ENG 66/0 (Roy 25* Bairstow 32*)
Henry to Roy. He swings, he top edges, it goes over the keeper. "England play attacking cricket... and fortune favours the brave," says Nasser Hussain. A classic bias of people for whom life has worked out well, but that's for another day. The ball seems to have gotten lost in some plastic sheeting down there..
OVER 8: ENG 59/0 (Roy 19* Bairstow 31*)
Boult. Roy with an imperious pull. Now he so nearly chops on. Ball misses his stumps, I have a feeling that it's going to be England's day.
OVER 7: ENG 53/0 (Roy 14* Bairstow 30*)
Southee's return has not been a happy one so far. He gets the hook, here comes Matt Henry, and he gets through his first over for just five.
England have it all their own way: these are their preferred conditions. Sunny, good true pitch, not a big ground, nobody with extreme pace or mystery spin in the opposition. England will fancy 350 here.
OVER 6: ENG 48/0 (Roy 13* Bairstow 27*)
Boult beats Bairstow with a cracker that nibbles away, Bairstow unbothered by that and slams another one over cover shortly after.
OVER 5: ENG 44/0 (Roy 13* Bairstow 23*)
Jonny Bairstow is on the charge! Southee is the stooge. Bairstow clips the ball off his pads for four. Now a fearsome drive over cover - and not all that far over the man stationed there, Mitchell Santner, who is a big chap but not big enough. Stung, Southee produces a bouncer but it's all too friendly at his pace, sits up and begs and Bairstow smashes that to the fence.
OVER 4: ENG 31/0 (Roy 13* Bairstow 10*)
Boult swings it... down leg and that's four byes. Roy plays and misses.
OVER 3: ENG 25/0 (Roy 11* Bairstow 10*)
Tim Southee, this is cricket match. Cricket match, this is Tim Southee. The Kiwi seamer has not played an ODI since February, so no cricket this tournament obvs. Tough assignment even for an admirable fellow such as he.
England's openers have a much, much better record against right-arm seam than left in the first ten overs of ODIs, and Bairstow here is off and running right away, merrily carting two too-wide balls from Southee through the covers for a brace o' fours. Southee draws a false shot/edge off the last ball of the over.
Bairstow went aerial for one of those cover drives.
OVER 2: ENG 15/0 (Roy 11* Bairstow 0*)
Boult to Roy. Over the wicket. First one swings in and hits the pad but that is going down leg. Next ball, also down leg, clips the pad or something on the way through to the keeper. An aborted appeal.Leg stump half volley now - not good enough, the Kiwis CANNOT let this pair get away.
I think this is the game here
England's right handed powerhouse openers against the wily, skilled left-armer Trent Boult. If he can make early inroads, then England might struggle.
OVER 1: ENG 9/0 (Roy 5* Bairstow 0*)
Santner starts with an arm ball! And it beats Roy all ends up, perhaps a pre-arranged plan, Roy does like to give himself room. Beats Roy and goes for four byes. Ropey delivery later in the over, a full toss, and Roy isn't missing out on that gift. Four through covers.
England need a win for a semi place
A tie will suit both sides (!)
Mitchell Santner starts.
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Certainly looks the day for a bat
there. Sunny, pitch looks dry and hard.
It looks a lovely day
in Durham. Big early battle for England's righties against the skilled left-armer Trent Boult.
England win the toss and the bat
Eoin Morgan: "We think it might be a bit slow and low later. There has been a trend of that in the tournament so far. The pitches haven't been as good as the last three or four years. Excitement, there is more on the line. This is why we play the game, we play hard and train hard. "
England are unchanged.
Kane Williamson: "We would have batted too. Lockie Ferguson has been outstanding but has a bit of a hamstring niggle and he is not right today. Tim Southee comes in, he is very experienced, hopefully he can get the ball moving early on this morning."
Matt Henry also comes into the side.
Here is how the table stands
Good morning
If this England side exit, it will not be rated: disappointed but proud. They will not have hashtag inspired a new generation. They will not even be able to say that, in the shape of New Zealand, they just found a better resourced, vastly experienced side too good on the day.
England’s male cricketers have to deliver a win today or this World Cup will have been a total failure. This was supposed to be England cricket’s summer in the sun, a shop window, a showcase to remind some people, and tell others for the first time, why this is a great sport.
As it is, and the television ring fencing of it away from the majority of the public plays its part, England men’s cricket has seen its public impact dwarfed by the women’s football team. If you’d told Botham in 1981, or Flintoff In 2005, that, nobody would have believed you. Maybe this is a good thing in a broader sense, but let’s focus on the here and now: England must beat New Zealand to go through. A tie would send both sides through, as it happens, so eyes peeled for some Austria vs West Germany Disgrace of Gijon-style gerrymandering.
If England lose they need Bangladesh to do them a favour and beat Pakistan on Friday. For the Kiwis, they can still go through with a defeat today because their net run rate is good.
So that’s the maths. As to the sport, England begin as favourites and rightly so but their record against the Kiwis at World Cups is poor. England haven’t won over them since 1983. We will have the team news as soon as it comes and information about the toss as well.
