New Zealand vs England 1st Test: England has defeated New Zealand in the first test played at Hagley Oval in Christchurch. England won this test match in T20 style. England achieved the target given by the Kiwi team in just 12.4 overs. For England, Jacob Bethell scored unbeaten 50 runs in just 37 balls. Whereas Joe Root returned unbeaten after scoring 23 runs in 15 balls. Brydon Carse, who took 10 wickets in the match, got the title of Player of the Match.
England, famous for baseball, won against New Zealand in its familiar style. In the first Test, England had a target of 104 runs, which the visiting team achieved in just 12.4 overs on the fourth day. In this match, the New Zealand team had scored 348 runs in its first innings. In response, England scored 499 runs in their first innings. Harry Brook played an inning of 171 runs for England. Then in the second innings the Kiwi team could score only 254 runs. In this way, England got the target of only 104 runs, which it achieved easily.
These players performed strongly in the match
Kane Williamson performed brilliantly for New Zealand. He scored 93 runs in the first innings and 61 runs in the second innings. Williamson also completed 9000 test runs in this match. He is the only batsman to score 9000 runs in Tests for New Zealand.
Gus Atkinson took two wickets in the first innings of bowling for England. Brayden Kars got 4 wickets. Off-spinner Shoaib Bashir also achieved four successes.
After this, in the first innings for England, Harry Brook scored 171 runs, Ollie Pope scored 77 runs and captain Ben Stokes scored 80 runs. Apart from this, in the lower order, number 10 Brayden Kars scored 33 not out and number 9 Gus Atkinson scored 48 runs.
In the second innings, Daryl Mitchell scored the highest score of 84 runs for the Kiwi team. This time for England, Carse took 6 wickets and Chris Woakes took three wickets. Chasing the target, Ben Duckett scored 27 runs in 18 balls, Bithal scored unbeaten 50 runs in 37 balls and Root scored unbeaten 23 runs in 15 balls.
