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England men · ODI · International series

New Zealand
v England⁠

Result

New Zealand won by 34 runs

New Zealand
213/6
England
242/7
Date
Saturday 23 February 2008 · England in 2008
Venue
Christchurch
Competition
ODI · International series

Last checked 21 October 2026

Scorecard

New Zealand v England ODI scorecard

New Zealand won the toss and chose to field

England · Innings 242/7 (50 overs)

England · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
Alastair Cook lbw b DL Vettori 42 70 4 0 60.0
P Mustard c JM How b KD Mills 2 8 0 0 25.0
Ian Bell c DR Flynn b KD Mills 24 34 4 0 70.6
Kevin Pietersen c JD Ryder b JS Patel 39 55 3 0 70.9
Paul Collingwood st BB McCullum b DL Vettori 14 27 0 0 51.9
Owais Shah c BB McCullum b KD Mills 29 48 2 0 60.4
Luke Wright c LRPL Taylor b KD Mills 47 40 2 4 117.5
Dimitri Mascarenhas not out 29* 12 1 2 241.7
Stuart Broad not out 11* 8 1 0 137.5
Extras (b 0, lb 3, w 0, nb 2) 5
Total 50 overs 242/7

Did not bat: RJ Sidebottom, JM Anderson

Fall of wickets: 1-5 (P Mustard, 2.2 ov), 2-57 (IR Bell, 14.1 ov), 3-105 (AN Cook, 25.1 ov), 4-119 (KP Pietersen, 30.2 ov), 5-128 (PD Collingwood, 33.6 ov), 6-197 (LJ Wright, 46.2 ov), 7-201 (OA Shah, 46.5 ov)

England · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
KD Mills 10 2 36 4 3.60 0 0
CS Martin 4 0 23 0 5.75 0 1
JDP Oram 6 1 32 0 5.33 0 0
SB Styris 7 0 37 0 5.29 0 0
DL Vettori 10 1 28 2 2.80 0 0
JS Patel 8 0 33 1 4.13 0 0
JD Ryder 5 0 50 0 10.00 0 1

New Zealand · Innings 213/6 (37 overs)

New Zealand · Innings: batting
BatterHow outRB4s6sSR
JD Ryder run out (KP Pietersen) 24 32 3 0 75.0
BB McCullum b PD Collingwood 77 43 5 6 179.1
JM How c P Mustard b RJ Sidebottom 24 43 3 0 55.8
LRPL Taylor not out 41* 52 7 0 78.8
SB Styris c SCJ Broad b JM Anderson 25 35 4 0 71.4
DR Flynn lbw b RJ Sidebottom 0 3 0 0 0.0
JDP Oram b RJ Sidebottom 0 1 0 0 0.0
DL Vettori not out 7* 13 0 0 53.8
Extras (b 0, lb 6, w 9, nb 0) 15
Total 37 overs 213/6

Did not bat: KD Mills, JS Patel, CS Martin

Fall of wickets: 1-103 (JD Ryder, 11.2 ov), 2-118 (BB McCullum, 15.6 ov), 3-147 (JM How, 21.4 ov), 4-196 (SB Styris, 32.4 ov), 5-197 (DR Flynn, 33.3 ov), 6-197 (JDP Oram, 33.4 ov)

New Zealand · Innings: bowling
BowlerOMRWEconWDNB
James Anderson 8 0 65 1 8.13 3 0
Ryan Sidebottom 10 0 51 3 5.10 1 0
Stuart Broad 6 0 41 0 6.83 0 0
Paul Collingwood 8 1 26 1 3.25 1 0
Dimitri Mascarenhas 5 1 24 0 4.80 0 0

Player of the match: BB McCullum · Umpires: Asad Rauf, BF Bowden · TV umpire: EA Watkin · Match referee: AG Hurst. 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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