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In the second Test being played in Wellington, England has won the second Test match by defeating New Zealand by 323 runs. With this, England has taken a 2-0 lead in the three-Test series. England has won the series against New Zealand at home after 16 years. Ben Stokes’ team had scored 427 runs in the second innings and with the help of the lead of 155 runs in the first innings, had set a target of 583 runs. In response, New Zealand collapsed to 259 runs. Harry Brook and Root are heroes Harry Brook, Joe Root and Gus Atkinson played important roles in England’s victory. Harry Brook was the player of the match. Brook played an important role in England scoring a big score in the first innings. He took over the innings after the English team lost 4 wickets for 43 runs in the first innings and made a partnership of 174 runs with Ollie Pope.
He helped England score 280 runs by scoring 123 runs in 115 balls. He scored a half-century in the second innings also. Apart from him, in the second innings, Joe Root played an inning of 106 runs and helped in setting the target of 583 runs.
Gus Atkinson and Braydon Carse bowled better After the batsmen, England’s bowling also performed better. In the first innings, Gus Atkinson and Braydon Carse were successful in restricting the Kiwi team to 155 runs by taking 4 wickets each. In the second innings, captain Ben Stokes took 3 wickets, Carse, Chris Woakes and Shoaib Bashir took 2 wickets each and Atkinson took 1 wicket. In this way, England all out New Zealand for just 259 in the second innings.
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By the end of the second day’s play in the second Test being played in Wellington, England had scored 378 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. With this, England has taken a lead of 533 runs. Joe Root is unbeaten on 73 runs and Ben Stokes is unbeaten on 35 runs. Read the full news…