{"id":28852,"date":"2025-10-18T05:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=28852"},"modified":"2025-10-18T05:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:55:42","slug":"new-zealand-v-england-first-mens-t20-cricket-international-live-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=28852","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand v England: first men\u2019s T20 cricket international \u2013 live | Cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><span id=\"key-events-carousel-mobile\"\/><span class=\"dcr-90inr0\"><\/p>\n<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span id=\"filter-toggle-mobile\"\/>Show key events only<\/p>\n<p><span>Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Simon Burnton<\/strong> is our man on the ground, I hope he\u2019s been having as nice a time as Harry Brook and his men ahead of this first match of the tour\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Brendon McCullum took his team to Queenstown in New Zealand\u2019s Southern Alps where, in Harry Brook\u2019s words, they were \u201cjust left to our own devices\u201d. There was some hiking, a bit of go-karting and, inevitably, a lot of golf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an amazing time,\u201d Brook said. \u201cThey\u2019ve got some amazing golf courses down there and we were lucky enough to get on a couple of them. A couple of lads managed to get out and explore Queenstown. We had a few drinks here and there and team meals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a lot of fun \u2013 it was about trying to spend a bit of time together because we don\u2019t really get that in the white-ball [team]. If you\u2019re having a lot of fun off the field and enjoying spending time with the lads, then it\u2019s going to be even better on the field. So I encourage everybody under mine and Baz\u2019s leadership to just enjoy themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"dcr-1wl2b6o\">Preamble<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-sa35sa\">James Wallace<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Winter is coming  here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hello and welcome to the start of England\u2019s epic winter of cricket. To start things off, a three match T20I series followed by three ODIs against New Zealand. Today\u2019s match will begin in about half an hour in Christchurch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Don\u2019t call it an Ashes warm up game. No honestly. Don\u2019t mention the A word at all. Jacob Bethell gets a sparkling ton against the Black Caps today? Pay it never mind, there\u2019s a T20 World Cup on the horizon, all roads <em>do not<\/em> lead to Perth on the 21st November. Ahem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The coin will be tossed shortly but we already know the sides with both teams confirming their XI\u2019s in advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>New Zealand:<\/strong> 1 Tim Seifert (wk), 2 Rachin Ravindra, 3 Tim Robinson, 4 Mark Chapman, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Michael Bracewell, 7 James Neesham, 8 Mitchell Santner (c), 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Matt Henry, 11 Jacob Duffy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>England:<\/strong> 1 Phil Salt, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Jacob Bethell, 4 Harry Brook (c), 5 Tom Banton, 6 Sam Curran, 7 Jordan Cox, 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Liam Dawson, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Luke Wood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It\u2019s early for a Saturday morning here in Blighty but if you are tuning in then give us a shout in the usual way.<\/p>\n<p>Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Simon Burnton is our man on the ground, I hope he\u2019s been having as nice a time as Harry Brook and his men ahead of this first match of the tour\u2026 Brendon McCullum took his team to Queenstown in New Zealand\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1144,311,531,132,1143,2441,1971],"class_list":{"0":"post-28852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-live","12":"tag-mens","13":"tag-t20","14":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}