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Test no. 1354

England in New Zealand Test Series - 2nd Test
New Zealand v England

1996/97 season

Played at Basin Reserve, Wellington, on 6,7,8,9,10 February 1997 (5-day match)

Result England won by an innings and 68 runs


New Zealand 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	BA Young	c Stewart b Gough	8	40	29	0	0	27.58
	BA Pocock	c Cork b Caddick	6	34	22	0	0	27.27
	AC Parore	c Stewart b Gough	4	15	5	1	0	80.00
	SP Fleming	c & b Caddick	1	25	19	0	0	5.26
	NJ Astle	c Croft b Gough	36	118	90	3	0	40.00
	CL Cairns	c Hussain b Gough	3	4	6	0	0	50.00
	LK Germon	c Stewart b Caddick	10	46	27	0	0	37.03
	DN Patel	c Cork b Caddick	45	99	66	6	0	68.18
	SB Doull	c Stewart b Gough	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
	GI Allott	c Knight b Cork	1	31	18	0	0	5.55
	DL Vettori	not out	3	13	10	0	0	30.00
	Extras	(lb 5, nb 2)	7

	Total	(all out; 48.3 overs; 219 mins)	124	(2.55 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-14 (Pocock), 2-18 (Young), 3-19 (Parore), 4-19 (Fleming), 5-23 (Cairns), 6-48 (Germon), 7-85 (Astle), 8-85 (Doull), 9-106 (Allott), 10-124 (Patel)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DG Cork	14	4	34	1	2.42	(2nb)
AR Caddick	18.3	5	45	4	2.43
D Gough	16	6	40	5	2.50	(1nb)


England 1st innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	NV Knight	c Patel b Doull	8	12	10	1	0	80.00
	MA Atherton	lbw b Doull	30	95	70	3	0	42.85
	AJ Stewart	c Fleming b Allott	52	122	86	6	0	60.46
	N Hussain	c Young b Vettori	64	188	158	6	1	40.50
	GP Thorpe	st Germon b Patel	108	329	249	12	0	43.37
	JP Crawley	c Germon b Doull	56	187	141	4	1	39.71
	DG Cork	lbw b Astle	7	59	45	0	0	15.55
	RDB Croft	c Fleming b Doull	0	6	4	0	0	0.00
	D Gough	c Fleming b Doull	18	47	34	3	0	52.94
	AR Caddick	c Allott b Vettori	20	24	18	2	0	111.11
	PCR Tufnell	not out	6	21	14	0	0	42.85
	Extras	(b 3, lb 9, nb 2)	14

	Total	(all out; 137.3 overs; 550 mins)	383	(2.78 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-10 (Knight), 2-80 (Atherton), 3-106 (Stewart), 4-213 (Hussain), 5-331 (Thorpe), 6-331 (Crawley), 7-331 (Croft), 8-357 (Cork), 9-357 (Gough), 10-383 (Caddick)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
SB Doull	28	10	75	5	2.67
GI Allott	31	6	91	1	2.93	(2nb)
DL Vettori	34.3	10	98	2	2.84
CL Cairns	4	2	8	0	2.00
NJ Astle	14	5	30	1	2.14	(2nb)
DN Patel	24	6	59	1	2.45
BA Pocock	2	0	10	0	5.00


New Zealand 2nd innings			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	BA Pocock	c Knight b Gough	64	335	271	5	0	23.61
	BA Young	c Stewart b Tufnell	56	132	103	6	0	54.36
	AC Parore	lbw b Croft	15	116	94	0	0	15.95
	SP Fleming	c & b Croft	0	10	11	0	0	0.00
	DN Patel	lbw b Croft	0	5	2	0	0	0.00
	LK Germon	b Gough	11	58	49	0	0	22.44
	NJ Astle	c Stewart b Gough	4	26	13	0	0	30.76
	CL Cairns	c Knight b Caddick	22	61	59	3	0	37.28
	SB Doull	c Knight b Gough	0	2	3	0	0	0.00
	GI Allott	b Caddick	2	25	15	0	0	13.33
	DL Vettori	not out	2	14	7	0	0	28.57
	Extras	(b 5, lb 4, nb 6)	15

	Total	(all out; 103.2 overs; 398 mins)	191	(1.84 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-89 (Young), 2-125 (Parore), 3-125 (Fleming), 4-125 (Patel), 5-161 (Germon), 6-164 (Pocock), 7-175 (Astle), 8-175 (Doull), 9-182 (Allott), 10-191 (Cairns)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
DG Cork	10	1	42	0	4.20	(2nb)
AR Caddick	27.2	11	40	2	1.46
RDB Croft	20	9	19	3	0.95	(1nb)
D Gough	23	9	52	4	2.26
PCR Tufnell	23	9	29	1	1.26	(4nb)

Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat first
Series England led the 3-match series 1-0

Test debut DL Vettori (New Zealand)
Player of the match GP Thorpe (England)

Umpires SA Bucknor (West Indies) and DB Cowie
TV umpire EA Watkin
Match referee PJP Burge (Australia)

Close of play
6 Feb day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 56/6 (NJ Astle 15*, DN Patel 5*)
7 Feb day 2 - England 1st innings 204/3 (N Hussain 60*, GP Thorpe 47*)
8 Feb day 3 - New Zealand 2nd innings 48/0 (BA Pocock 13*, BA Young 32*)
9 Feb day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 125/4 (BA Pocock 45*, LK Germon 0*)
10 Feb day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 191 (103.2 ov) - end of match

Match notes

18 year old Vettori becomes the youngest player ever to play for New Zealand.

Day 1
Match delayed due to rain. Two sessions play lost with 30 overs minimum to be bowled.

Day 2
Lunch: Eng 20/1 (Atherton 7*, Stewart 5*)
Tea: Eng 115/3 (Hussain 14*, Thorpe 5*)

Day 3
Lunch: Eng 282/4 (Thorpe 85*, Crawley 33*)
Tea: Eng 350/7 (Cork 4*, Gough 14*)
SB Doull's 4th 5-wicket haul and his 5th wicket gave him 50 Test wickets.

Day 4
Match delayed due to rain. 2 hours and 45 minutes lost with a minimum of 49 overs to be bowled.

Day 5
Lunch: NZ 177/8 (Cairns 12*, Allott 0*)
England take the new ball after 81 overs.

England's 3rd innings victory against NZ in the past 8 Tests between the 2 countries (others were 1991/92 1st Test, 1994 1st Test). These are the only innings victories by England against any country in the past 10 years.

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