{"id":510634,"date":"2025-10-19T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510634\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T00:08:13","slug":"englands-first-t20i-in-new-zealand-washed-out-after-first-innings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510634\/","title":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s first T20I in New Zealand washed out after first innings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England&#8217;s first T20I against New Zealand in Christchurch was washed out, with only the tourists able to play their innings on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>England had set New Zealand a target of 154 in the chase before the rain started, and it did not ease up before the cut-off point, with the hosts unable to reply.<\/p>\n<p>All six of New Zealand&#8217;s bowlers took a wicket, but it was a poor start from England as they slumped to 81-5, with Phil Salt (three) dismissed in the second over.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Bethell (15), Harry Brook (20) and Tom Banton (nine) all fell before Jos Buttler&#8217;s stand of 29 came to an end in the 12th over.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sam Curran&#8217;s unbeaten 49, a knock which included three boundaries and two maximums, salvaged some pride for England, helping to drag them to 153-6 by the 20th over.<\/p>\n<p>The covers then came out before the match was ultimately called off, with the second T20I in the series taking place on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sadly our first IT20 in New Zealand has been abandoned after heavy rain<\/p>\n<p>We play the second match of the series on Monday morning (UK). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Arc88dZW26\">pic.twitter.com\/Arc88dZW26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1979476191204806961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 18, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Data Debrief: An underwhelming start<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s 153-6 is their lowest total when batting first against New Zealand in men&#8217;s T20Is.<\/p>\n<p>Before Saturday, the Three Lions had lost 17 of their 22 matches in the format against full-member sides when setting a target of 154 or below, though they were not given the chance to change that record.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England&#8217;s first T20I against New Zealand in Christchurch was washed out, with only the tourists able to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,10022,93,58033,156284,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-510634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-social","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sporty","14":"tag-sportytv","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115397925547162360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}