{"id":234,"date":"2014-03-22T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/nz-beat-england-in-storm-hit-chittagong\/"},"modified":"2014-03-22T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T18:04:00","slug":"nz-beat-england-in-storm-hit-chittagong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"NZ beat England in storm-hit Chittagong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">England lost by Duckworth-Lewis as their World Twenty20 Group One game with New Zealand in Chittagong was abandoned because of a thunderstorm.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Put in, England made 172-6 with Moeen Ali firing 36 in 23 balls and sharing 72 in seven overs with Michael Lumb (36), while Jos Buttler added 32.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Brendon McCullum hit a six to put the Kiwis ahead of the rate at 52-1 after five overs when the storm arrived.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/73747361_73747359.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/73747361_73747359.jpg\" height=\"223\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">New Zealand were awarded victory by nine runs under the D\/L method.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">It was a galling way to start the tournament for England, who posted a competitive total and restricted New Zealand to 31-1 after four overs to be ahead on points in boxing parlance.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">ive overs needed to be bowled in the second innings to constitute a match and that fifth over was not only completed but brought about a complete contrast in the outcome.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Astute skipper McCullum, conscious of the dramatic flashes of lightning moving ever closer to the stadium, stepped down the pitch to hit counterpart Stuart Broad for six over mid-wicket, then edged over slip for four more before hitting the final ball of the over down the ground for another maximum.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">After familiar feelings of dread at 1-1 from one over, left-handers Ali and Lumb had invigorated England with some delightfully clean hitting on both sides of the wicket.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Ali was particularly destructive with a spell of four fours and a six in six balls faced.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">But he picked out deep mid-wicket in the eighth over and Lumb was superbly caught by Corey Anderson at third man in the next.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">Buttler kept the scoreboard moving, while Ravi Bopara, Chris Jordan and Tim Bresnan all struck sixes in cameo innings, but the torrential storm thwarted prospects of an intriguing finale.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;\">England will hope for better fortune in their next match, also under the floodlights, against Sri Lanka at the same venue on Thursday.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England lost by Duckworth-Lewis as their World Twenty20 Group One game with New Zealand in Chittagong was abandoned because of a thunderstorm. Put in, England made 172-6 with Moeen Ali firing 36 in 23 balls and sharing 72 in seven overs with Michael Lumb (36), while Jos Buttler added 32. 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