New Delhi. New Zealand cricket team has bid farewell to its star Tim Southee with a record win. Host New Zealand defeated England by 423 runs in Saudi’s last Test match. This was the third and last test of the 3-match series. However, despite this victory, the Kiwi team could not win the series. England won the first two test matches of the series. In this way the British won the 3-match series 2-1. By winning the match by 423 runs, New Zealand equaled its biggest win in Test cricket. It had defeated Sri Lanka by the same margin in 2018.
The third test match between New Zealand and England was played in Hamilton. In this match, New Zealand batted first and scored 347 runs. In response, the England team was out after scoring 143 runs in its first innings. New Zealand batted more strongly in the second innings and scored 453 runs with the help of a century by Kane Williamson (156).
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In this way England got an impossible target of 658 runs to win. Chasing this target, England were all out after scoring 234 runs. Jack Bethall scored the highest score of 76 runs in the second innings for England. Joe Root played an inning of 54 runs and Gus Atkinson played an inning of 43 runs. Mitchell Santner took maximum 4 wickets for New Zealand. Tim Southee and Matt Henry, playing their last Test match, took two wickets each.
36 year old Tim Southee had said that he would retire after the New Zealand-England series. Now he will not be seen playing in Test cricket. Tim Southee played 107 test matches in his 16-year career. Saudi scored 391 runs and scored 2245 runs in these matches. He has hit 98 sixes in Test cricket, which is more than any batsman in India.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : December 17, 2024, 08:26 IST