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Blackcaps 146/5, England 146/7 - Innings rain-reduced to 11 overs
England superover 18/0, Blackcaps superover 8/1
ENGLAND WIN SERIES 3-2
New Zealand superover - Looks like Jordan will take the ball for England. No sign of the NZ batsmen yet. Seifert and Guptill get the honours. First ball scooped to fine leg for two. Jordan flirts with the wide line, and he's gone too far. Wide called. Seifert goes over long off and the ball just beats the chasers to the boundary. 11 off 4 needed. Great ball from Jordan to beat Seifert. Handy half-volley heaved at and skied, Morgan scrambles and takes an excellent diving catch. 11 off two balls needed, De Grandhomme in. Guptill goes deep for one. That will do it. Dot ball, and we're done.
England superover - Southee will bowl. Single off the first ball. Morgan straight for six. In the blockhole for a single. Bairstow lofts one for six straight over Southee's head. Two to come. Single off the fifth. Low full toss goes for two. NZ need 18 to win.
We're heading to a superover! Can NZ exorcise some demons from Lord's?
11th over - 16 runs required off the final over from Neesham. Well run for two off a well placed delivery. Southee comes around to cut the next ball off to just a single. Gone! Edged to a short third man and CDG takes an easy catch to dismiss Curran. Three to come. Jordan swings a full toss away for six! Two off the penultimate ball. Four runs needed for a tie. Neesham wide down leg and dispatched to the square leg boundary for four! We have a tie.
10th over - 26 from 12 required. Four runs to start from Southee helps that. So will a wide. Late cut straight to Munro, just a single there. Curran skies a full toss and somehow it falls to safety for a run. Southee follows the batsman wide, just a leg bye.
9th over - Boult is back, wide and full for a dot ball to start. Huge appeal from Boult for LBW, they scamper a single. They'll review this. Missing off stump comfortably. Drifts one wide for another dot ball. Curran pulls one over extra cover for a much-needed six. Goes wide again, this time he's pinged. Beats the bat with the next one. The batsmen turn for a tight two runs, bat is dropped and he's out for all money - but Boult can't collect the throw from deep.
8th over - Santner in, and he may have a stumping off his first ball here. Nifty work from Seifert to reel in a wide one and whip off the bails. Third Umpire confirms the bails were just off before Curran could get his bat back down. S Curran st Seifert b Santner 24 (11). Gregory wastes no time and swiftly charges to slam Santner back over his head for six. Gregory reaches for the next one and spoons an easy catch to Southee at cover. Gregory c Southee b Santner 6(2). Tight stuff to close a brilliant over from Santner.
7th over - England need 57 off 30 balls to win, very manageable. Neesham into the attack. Bairstow pulls one over six to welcome him. Better areas off the next two, just the singles. Swing and a miss. Same delivery the next ball and this time Bairstow edges behind to Seifert. Big wicket for NZ. J Bairstow c Seifert b Neesham 47(17)
6th over - Ish Sodhi up for his first over, and summarily dispatched for six off his first ball. Bairstow goes even bigger off the next ball, another six over cow corner. Thirs ball is swiped awkwardly over long on for six. Better from his final three.
5th over - Kuggeleijn's first ball blasted over covers, one bounce and into to the fence from Curran. Clever shot over fine leg for another boundary. Slashes the third one over the rope at backward point for six. Fourth is over extra cover for six. Massive over for England with two balls to go. Two dots to close.
4th over - Santner up for his first over. Two dots followed by a big six from Bairstow. Curran gets off the mark with a single. Dots to close an excellent over.
3rd over - Boult up again. Beats Morgan all ends up off his first ball. Swings the next into the clouds and deep enough to go for six over square leg. Puts the next one into cow corner for four. Pulls one handsomely for six, three boundaries in a row. Boult sprays one down leg for a wide. Morgan doesn;t time the next one, up it goes and down it comes into the hands of Kuggeleijn, and that's a huge wicket for NZ. E Morgan c Kuggeleijn b Boult 17(7).
2nd over - Southee gets one from his first ball, Vince toes one to mid-off for an easy catch. J Vince c Kuggeleijn b Southee 1(2). Late cut from Bairstow for four. Wide, a dot ball, and another nice late cut for four to close.
1st over - Boult gets the ball first. Tight to start, just a pair of singles from the first three deliveries. Banton puts a half-volley over long-on for six. Got him! Boult swings one late that strikes Banton dead in front. He wants to review it, Third Umpire agrees, after finally getting the correct delivery to look at. T Banton 7 lbw Boult 7 (4).
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11th over - Tom Curran will bowl the final over for England. Neesham sneaks a single to put Seifert back on strike. Seifert leans back muscles a full toss over long off for six. Curran repsonds with a lovely in-swinging yorker to collect Seifert's stumps. Great innings. T Seifert b Curran 39 (16). Taylor whips one off his pads for two. Same shot off the final ball, this time Taylor is run out coming back for the second.
10th over - Sam Curran in for the penultimate over. Munro goes deep and straight down the fielder's throat. Very handy innings for the opener. C Munro c Vince B Curran 46 (21). Two more huge dot balls. Perfectly played scoop shot from Seifert over fine leg for six. Seifert swats another for six over long on to ruin a good over for England. Times the final ball along the deck and through covers for four.
9th over - Munro slams Jordan back over his head for a mammoth six to start the over. On the mark for the final five of his spell.
8th over - Rashid back to the bowling crease for his final over. Seifert uses his feet and hoists one into the stands. Bang! Goes again, this time off one knee and over mid-wicket.
7th over - Mahmood into the attack. De Grandhomme with a clever flick off the pads to fine leg for four. Slower ball and CDG doesn't pick it, holes out to mid-wicket. C de Grandhomme c Vince b Mahmood 6 (5). Another excellent over for the visitors.
6th over - Guptill goes deep again but not deep enough, caught on the mid-wicket boundary to end a superb knock. Guptill c Banton b Rashid 50 (20). Just singles to end a great over from Rashid.
5th over - Munro gets lucky, edging over the keeper's head for four. Guptill brings up his 50 off just 19 balls with a single. Munro hooks for six off the final ball of the over.
4th over - Stumping chance off Rashid's first ball. Third umpire confirms Guptill's safety. Guptill frees his arms and goes bang for another six over long-off. Munro sweeps a wide one down leg for two more. NZ rolling here.
3rd over - Munro gets one in the slot and bangs another six over Jordan's head. Guptill square-cut off a full toss, four more. Guptill steps forward and hooks one right out of the middle into the upper tier of the west stand. 50 partnership up already.
2nd over - Guptill advanaces and sends Tom Curran to the cow corner boundary. Goes the same area next ball, but this one is high and over the rope. Well-run two follows. Head down and hoists another over long-on for six more. Guptill cuts over point, they take two more. Dot to finish a 20-run over.
1st over - Guptill rocks back and slams Sam Curran to the mid-on boundary. Plenty of intent early, and there'll have to be. Munro sneaks a couple. Lofted cut from Munro and he dispatchs it one-bounce into the fance. Blasts the next ball straight over long-on for six. Action aplenty here.
3:57pm - Both teams are out on the pitch for a moment of silnce to make Remembrance Day in the UK. Plennty of sun out there now, there should be no trouble getting a result in here.
3:40pm - Suns out, runs out! The match has officially been reduced to an 11-over fixture and will start at 4pm.
3:33pm - The rain has halted and conditions are expected to remain clear for the next 40 minutes odd. Covers are off, just waiting to hear how many overs we'll be looking at here.
3:25pm - There's some blue sky starting to peep through the clouds. Hope? Stay tuned.
3pm - Visibility has worsened considerably. The Uno will be well underway in the sheds.
2:38pm - Positively bucketing down now in Mt Eden. Go and put the kettle on, team.
2:30pm - The rain recommences and the covers are back on. So close, yet so far from some cricket.
2:29pm - The umpires are tentatively making their way to the middle. The covers are very much on standby as the light steadily begins to drop again.
2:20pm - The England attack will bowl their first ball at 2:30pm.
2:12pm - England have won the toss and chosen to bowl first. Obviously.
Jimmy Neesham and Scott Kuggeleijn will come into the NZ XI in place of Blair Tickner and Daryl Mitchell.
England have made three changes with James Vince, Saqib Mahmood and Adil Rashid coming in.
1:47pm - The covers are off and we'll have a toss at 2:10pm.
1:30pm - The rain has officially stopped! Groundstaff are hoping to find a window to remove the covers and get the toss done in the next 10 minutes. We have until 2:40pm until we start losing overs.
1:10pm - The rain has eased to a drizzle but it's still pretty widespread, with cloud low and dense. Not great signs.
The umpires have confirmed the latest start time possible is 4:47pm.
12:45pm - It's still raining. Steadily.
12:05pm - The rain has arrived, people. Well and truly arrived. And it appears here to stay.
TAB betting odds: NZ - $1.978 England - $1.95
Pre-match banter:
Blackcaps look to get back to basics
By Ben Francis
Blackcaps captain Tim Southee says his team have been given a serious wake-up call after their 76-run defeat to England in the fourth T20 in Napier.
After the visitors were sent into bat, Dawid Malan (103*) smashed a 48-ball century, the fastest in England's T20 history and skipper Eoin Morgan made a blistering 91 as the English finished 241/3, their highest ever T20 total.
Despite a valiant effort from the Blackcaps batsman, New Zealand fell short as England levelled the series, with only one game, in Auckland on Sunday, to come.
Southee said the Blackcaps tried to match fire with fire, instead of playing their game which proved to be their ultimate downfall.
"We fell into their rhythm, instead of doing what we're good at," he said after the match. "That can happen in T20, the guys will learn from it and move on.
"It's a good experience for our bowlers to be put under pressure. It's about learning as we go on, but we have to dust ourselves off, and there is a series to be won this weekend in Auckland."
England were 58/2 when Morgan joined Malan at the crease and the pair put on a massive 182-run partnership, the highest third-wicket partnership by any team in the history of T20I cricket and the fourth-highest partnership for any wicket.
Malan became only the second Englishman to hit a century in a T20International when he smacked his sixth six, reaching the mark quicker than Alex Hales with his 60-ball hundred against Sri Lanka during the 2014 World Cup.
Morgan's 91 was his highest score in the game's shortest format.
"It was a good display of hitting from both guys," Southee added. Malan played well, and he hits it with ease.
"He's easy on the eye to watch so hopefully he doesn't repeat that in Auckland."
In response, the Blackcaps got off to a bright start, reaching 54/0, but the wheels quickly fell off as they lost six wickets for 35 runs.
Southee finished as the Blackcaps' top scorer with 39, one of only five players to score at least 10 runs.
"We weren't going to roll over, and we needed things to go our way. The run rate was on par for long periods, but we were regularly losing wickets.
"It was a bridge too far tonight, but you have to have belief going into a chase like that.
"You have to learn from these experiences. You have to dust yourself off, and there is a series to be won in Auckland.
"It will be a chance for the guys to bounce back. I'll move on, and we look forward to hopefully winning the series."
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