New Zealand beat England by 423 runs in the Hamilton Test. This is the Kiwis' biggest win against England by a run margin. Chasing a target of 658 runs in the third test, the English team could score only 234 runs. However, England won the 3-match Test series 2-1. The team won the first match by 8 wickets and the second match by 323 runs.
On Tuesday, play opened with a score of 18/2 on the fourth day of the match at Seddon Park, England. Jacob Bithell scored 76 runs and Joe Root scored 54 runs while Gus Atkinson contributed 43 runs.
New Zealand's Mitchell Centon scored 76 runs and took 3 wickets in the first innings. He scored 49 runs in the second innings and took 4 wickets. He was awarded Player of the Match for this performance. England all-rounder Harry Brook was declared the player of the series.
On Saturday, England won the toss and chose to bowl first. In the first innings, New Zealand scored 347 runs and England scored 143 runs. New Zealand scored 453 runs in the second innings and gave England a target of 658 runs.
New Zealand's biggest win ever New Zealand beat England by 423 runs. This was the team's joint biggest win by a run margin. Before this, the team defeated Sri Lanka by 423 runs in Christchurch in 2018 as well. This is the team's biggest win against England.
Tim Southee's last Test match This was the last Test match of New Zealand fast bowler Tim Southee. He announced his retirement from Test cricket before the series began. Announcing his retirement, the 35-year-old Southee said – I will be available if our team qualifies for the WTC finals.
New Zealand all out for 453 in the second innings on Day 3 The New Zealand team was all out for 453 runs in the second innings. New Zealand's star batsman Kane Williamson scored a century. He scored 156 runs off 204 balls. Apart from that, Will Young and Daryl Mitchell scored 60 runs each. Mitchell Santner scored 49 runs and Rachin Ravindra scored 44 runs. Tom Blundell remained unbeaten on 44 runs. Jacob Bethel took the most 3 wickets from England. Ben Stokes and Shoaib Bashir took 2 wickets each. Matthew Potts, Gus Atkinson and Joe Root got 1 wicket each.
On the next day, England were all out for 143 runs in the first innings The performance of England's batsmen in the first innings was very poor. Joe Root played the highest innings of 32 runs off 42 balls with the help of 6 fours. Captain Ben Stokes scored 27 runs off 43 balls and Olly Pope scored 24 runs off 42 balls. Matt Henry took the highest 4 wickets for New Zealand with 48 runs in 13.4 overs. Along with this, William O'Rourke and Mitchell Santner took 3 wickets each.
Latham-Santner scored a half-century on the first day New Zealand got off to a strong start in the Hamilton Test against England. By the end of the first day's play on Saturday, the team had scored 315 runs with the loss of 9 wickets. Mitchell Santner returned unbeaten with 50 runs.
Both Teams Playing-11 New Zealand: Tom Latham (captain), Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tom Blundell (wicketkeeper), Matt Henry, Tim Southee and Will O'Rourke.
England: Ben Stokes (captain), Zac Crowley, Ben Duckett, Jacob Bethell, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ollie Pope (wicketkeeper), Matthew Potts, Gus Atkinson, Brydon Carrs and Shoaib Bashir.
Centner player of the match in the third match against England In the third match against England, New Zealand's Mitchell Centon scored 76 runs in the first innings and took 3 wickets. He scored 49 runs in the second innings and took 4 wickets. He was awarded Player of the Match for this performance.
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