The sixth match of the currently ongoing Champions Trophy was a clash between two Group A teams: England and New Zealand at Cardiff. We look at the match highlights, how England qualified for the semi finals and at some of the statistics so far in the competition as well as info about the upcoming matches.
Winning the toss, New Zealand asked England to bat first. Alex Hales (56 off 62), Joe Root (64 off 65), Ben Stokes (48 off 53) and Jos Buttler (61 off 48) were the major contributors to the English total of 310 (all out in 49.3 overs). Adam Milne and Corey Anderson picked up three wickets each for their team.
The English batsment totted up 310 (all out in 49.3 overs). Adam Milne and Corey Anderson picked up three wickets each for their team.
In spite of a captain's knock by Kane Williamson (87 off 98) the disciplined English bowling kept taking regular wickets keep the New Zealand batsmen off their stride. The Kiwis were dismissed for 223 runs Liam Plunkett being the pick of the English bowlers with his 4 wickets. Player of the match was J T Ball of England.
With the win yesterday, England have made it to the semi final, the first team from Group A to do so. Both of Australia's games were no-result matches. India is currently the leader of Group B.
Having lost their first match to India, Pakistan will have to play really well to stay in the game. South Africa already have one win to their name (defeating Sri Lanka) India’s next game will be on 8 June, Thursday when we will see an exciting clash between traditional rivals India and Sri Lanka.
Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal is the current batting leader in terms of the most runs scored and also having scored a century. Alex Hales of England has the distinction of most 50’s (two so far).
England's Liam Plunkett has taken the most wickets so far (eight), Australia's Travis Head has the best bowling economy and Josh Hazlewood, also from Australia as the best bowling figures of any one innings (6/52).
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