Alastair Cook has an early moment of anxiety, but England's run-out horror stories do not return on this occasion Kyle Mills may not have attracted the bidders at the Indian Premier League but he takes the first England wicket Jesse Ryder lends his formidable frame to the New Zealand fielding cause as the Kiwis restrict England Ian Bell suffers with the slow surface and this delivery strikes the middle of his chest rather than his bat Umpire Asad Rauf watches New Zealand paceman Chris Martin take off en route to the crease The ebullient Luke Wright gets England's stuttering innings back on track with some fine hitting Typically swashbuckling hitting from Dimi Mascarenhas bring England 22 in the last over and a total of 242 New Zealand reply in kind, Brendon McCullum blazing five fours and six sixes in 77 off 43 balls Paul Collingwood eventually removes the dangerous Kiwi and Ryan Sidebottom weighs in with three wickets And then the rain comes with New Zealand seemingly on target to victory in the decisive one dayer Play does not resume but the hosts win the game under the Duckworth/Lewis method and the series as well
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