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England
v New Zealand⁠

Result

New Zealand won by 6 wickets

England
209/7 (50 ov)
New Zealand
210/4 (41 ov)
Date
Friday 16 March 2007 · England in 2007
Venue
Beausejour Stadium, Gros Islet

Last checked 24 October 2026

Scorecard

England v New Zealand ODI scorecard

New Zealand won the toss and chose to field

England · Innings 209/7 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Ed Joyce c BB McCullum b JEC Franklin 0 2 0 0 0.0
Michael Vaughan b JEC Franklin 26 52 3 0 50.0
Ian Bell c BB McCullum b JDP Oram 5 19 0 0 26.3
Kevin Pietersen c JEC Franklin b SE Bond 60 92 4 1 65.2
Paul Collingwood c BB McCullum b SB Styris 31 54 2 0 57.4
Andrew Flintoff c SB Styris b SE Bond 0 1 0 0 0.0
Jamie Dalrymple c BB McCullum b SB Styris 3 12 0 0 25.0
Paul Nixon not out 42* 41 5 0 102.4
Liam Plunkett not out 29* 34 1 1 85.3
Extras (b 0, lb 2, w 4, nb 7) 13
Total 50 overs 209/7

Did not bat: JM Anderson, MS Panesar

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (EC Joyce, 0.1 ov), 2-30 (IR Bell, 8.5 ov), 3-52 (MP Vaughan, 15.3 ov), 4-133 (PD Collingwood, 34.6 ov), 5-133 (KP Pietersen, 35.3 ov), 6-134 (A Flintoff, 35.6 ov), 7-138 (JWM Dalrymple, 38.2 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
JEC Franklin 9 0 43 2 4.78 1 4
SE Bond 10 1 19 2 1.90 2 0
JDP Oram 6 0 25 1 4.17 0 0
JS Patel 8 0 42 0 5.25 0 1
DL Vettori 10 0 53 0 5.30 0 1
SB Styris 7 0 25 2 3.57 1 1

New Zealand · Innings 210/4 (41 overs)

New Zealand · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
L Vincent c PA Nixon b JM Anderson 0 6 0 0 0.0
SP Fleming c EC Joyce b JM Anderson 7 11 1 0 63.6
LRPL Taylor c A Flintoff b LE Plunkett 0 1 0 0 0.0
SB Styris not out 87* 113 9 0 77.0
CD McMillan c JWM Dalrymple b MS Panesar 27 34 3 0 79.4
JDP Oram not out 63* 83 4 1 75.9
Extras (b 2, lb 11, w 11, nb 2) 26
Total 41 overs 210/4

Did not bat: BB McCullum, DL Vettori, JEC Franklin, SE Bond, JS Patel

Fall of wickets: 1-1 (L Vincent, 0.6 ov), 2-3 (LRPL Taylor, 1.2 ov), 3-19 (SP Fleming, 4.6 ov), 4-72 (CD McMillan, 15.2 ov)

New Zealand · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
James Anderson 8 0 39 2 4.88 1 0
Liam Plunkett 7 0 43 1 6.14 1 1
Andrew Flintoff 8 1 17 0 2.13 1 1
Paul Collingwood 3 0 20 0 6.67 0 0
Monty Panesar 10 0 47 1 4.70 3 0
Jamie Dalrymple 4 0 29 0 7.25 1 0
Kevin Pietersen 1 0 2 0 2.00 0 0

Player of the match: SB Styris · Umpires: Asad Rauf, RE Koertzen · TV umpire: PD Parker · Match referee: MJ Procter. Scorecard from ball-by-ball data by Cricsheet (opens in a new tab), used under the Open Data Commons Attribution License (opens in a new tab). Names as Cricsheet writes them; England players link to their profiles.

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