Jos Buttler, Adil Rashid and Mark Wood star for England in T20 World Cup warm-up vs New Zealand

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Jos Buttler hit 73 of 51 balls against New Zealand in England’s final warm-up before the T20 World Cup opener against the West Indies on Saturday; Mark Wood with four wickets and Adil Rashid three as Eoin Morgan’s men win by 13 runs; Dawid Malan and Morgan drop cheaply at No. 3 and 4 respectively

Jos Buttler scored 11 fours and two sixes for England in Abu Dhabi

Jos Buttler scored 73 in 51 deliveries before Adil Rashid and Mark Wood starred with the ball as England beat New Zealand by 13 runs in their final warm-up game before their opener of the T20 World Cup against the West Indies.

Buttler hit 11 fours and two sixes to prop up England’s 163-6 total, though there were also crisp cameos from Jonny Bairstow (30 of 21) and Sam Billings (27th of 17) in Abu Dhabi.

Legged pitcher Rashid (3-18) and fast pitcher Wood (4-21) hit twice in an over, while Tymal Mills (0-23) cast an inexpensive four-over spell as the Black Caps collapsed from 66-1. at 103-9 in response.

Cameos by Ish Sodhi (25th versus 16) and Todd Astle (16 versus 13) dragged New Zealand back into the game, leaving them needing 15 from Chris Woakes’ final, but Astle was thrown when the Kiwis were all out by 150.

England are moving into Saturday’s clash against the West Indies with a win and a loss from their two warm-ups, Wednesday’s win over New Zealand after Monday’s six-field setback against India, and with concerns and positives.

Adil Rashid took two wickets in the eleventh plus

Any significant concerns about the form of Dawid Malan (11 of 15) and Eoin Morgan (10 of 11) were not alleviated as lefties dropped lbw on the reverse sweep to leg spinner Sodhi (3-26), although Morgan was unfortunate to have apparently had the bat against the ball before it hit his pad.

Morgan averaged just 11 in the recently concluded IPL, while Rob Key suggested on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast that Malan’s tendency to take time out to get in could hamper England on slow pitches in the UAE, and that he vigorously score during the power play is probably crucial. .

Jason Roy (0) and Liam Livingstone (1) dove around his legs: Tim Southee’s Roy from the first ball of the match and Livingstone, ready to play after being hit on his left little finger against India, by Glenn Phillips . .

Livingstone opened the bowling alley for England and was taken by 14 when Martin Guptill (40 of 21) finished the first over with sixes, shots that helped the Black Caps to 81-2 within nine overs.

However, Billings’ brilliant run from Devon Conway (20 of 23) from the deep caused a collapse of seven wickets for 22 runs, three of them dropping with the score at 87.

Rashid backed up his previous Guptill scalp by hitting twice in the 11th over, and Chris Jordan caught Mark Chapman (1) on a slide through a Buttler detour before throwing Mitchell Santner (0) through. the door.

Wood, who had thrown Guptill’s first teammate Tim Seifert in the third over, saw the middle and bottom order and was on a hat-trick after eliminating Kyle Jamiesion and Southee from successive balls at 15.

Sodhi and Astle’s 47-run position kept England high: Sodhi smoked two sixes against the costly Woakes (1-31) in a 22-run 16th over, and when Astle finished Jordan’s 19th over with a whopping six, A comeback victory seemed possible only for Woakes to close out the victory for Morgan’s men.

Jos Buttler – seemed to be hitting on different ground than most England players during a power and invention hit in which he hit fifty of 39 balls

Jonny Bairstow and Sam Billings – Middle order men Bairstow and Billings helped his side loot 54 of the final five overs, with Billings beating Jamieson for 20. Billings capped off a good day with a shot put from a deep point back in the gloves of Buttler who drove to the exit. Conway and beginning the collapse of the Kiwi

Adil rashid– so skilled, so reliable, so important. He dismissed a ball to Guptill after it was scored for six and then put England on top with his 11th double strike.

Mark Wood – with Jofra Archer missing the World Cup, Wood is England’s best sailor and he certainly had plenty of New Zealand hitters under the bomb, throwing Seifert through the gate with excellent delivery

Ish sodhi – the New Zealand spinner caught Malan and Morgan lbw and was also the man who finally banished Buttler, caught long. Then he had a lot of fun with the bat at the end of the game.

Lockie ferguson – toned by 12 since his first Buttler lap, the closer sent just seven combined runs of his last two, mixing his pace well and discarding Bairstow with a slower ball bounce

England leg-spinner, ADIL RASHID: “It’s always good to get into the habit of winning, even in a warm-up game, and for the guys to hit a hit, grab a bowl and spend some time in between. We are definitely confident that if we stick to our strengths that we can do well in this tournament. “

For England and New Zealand, it is the T20 World Cup proper.

England begin their campaign against the defending champions of the West Indies in a replay of the 2016 final, with that game, in Dubai, live on Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Main Event starting at 2.30pm on Saturday.

New Zealand has to wait until Tuesday for its first match: a clash against 2009 champion Pakistan in Sharjah, which will air live on Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Main Event starting at 2.30pm.

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