WELLINGTON: New Zealand secured a ‘thrilling’ victory by 1 run in the 2nd Test against England, leveling the series 1-1. England toured New Zealand to play a 2-match Test series. England took a commanding 1-0 lead in the first Test at Mount Maunganui by an impressive margin of 267 runs. In this case, the 2nd Test started on February 24 in Wellington. England declared 435 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the first innings. Harry Brook scored 186 and Joe Root scored 153 runs. New Zealand, who came in next, were bowled out for 209 in the first innings and followed on. New Zealand, who fought hard in the 2nd innings, put up a challenge of 483 runs. Latham 83, Conway 61, Williamson 132, Daryl Mitchell 54, Brendel 90* run vlasiner. Jack Leach took 5 wickets for England. Following this, England, who played the 2nd innings with a target of 258 runs to win, had scored 48 runs for the loss of 1 wicket at the end of the 4th day. Ben Duckett 23, Oliver Robinson 1 runs started the last day yesterday.
Duckett 33, Robinson 2, Pope 14, Harry Brook (0, run out) successively, England lost 5 wickets for 80 runs. Joe Root – Captain Stokes put on 121 for the 6th wicket as England edged closer to victory. Stokes 33, Root 95 (113 balls, 8 fours, 3 sixes) with Wlasie Wagner taking a wicket, the game was unexpectedly lively. Broad 11 and Boggs left with 35 runs to keep the England batsmen nervous. With only 2 runs left for victory, Anderson (4 runs) was caught by the wicketkeeper Brendel in the bowling of Wagner… England was all out for 256 runs. New Zealand won the ‘Thrill’ by 1 run to level the series at 1-1. Newsy. Wagner took 4, Southee 3 and Henry 2 wickets in bowling. Williamson was awarded the man of the match award. England’s Harry Brook bagged the Man of the Series award.
* New Zealand, who won against South Africa in 2021, tasted victory again after 6 Test matches.
* New Zealand lost the 2021-22 Test series against India 1-0 and have not won a series since then. News Bangladesh draw with South Africa When the team played in England in 2022, it was whitewashed. After that it has drawn the series against Pakistan and now against England.