New Zealand v England: Ben Stokes return ends in thrilling defeat in first ODI

Ben Stokes top-edges a sweep to be caught for 12
New Zealand v England: Ben Stokes return ends in thrilling defeat in first ODI

New Zealand v England: Ben Stokes return ends in thrilling defeat in first ODI

Ben Stokes scored twelve and took 2-43 as his 1st England match for 5 months resulted in a three-wicket defeat by New Zealand in Hamilton.

Ross Taylor created 113 and Tom Latham seventy nine as New Zealand recovered from 27-3 within the 1st match of the one-day series.

Mitchell Santner hit forty five not out off twenty seven balls, as well as a six to seal success with four balls to spare.

Joe Root, reinvigorated for the Twenty20 tri-series, created seventy one and Jos Buttler seventy nine in England's 284-8 at Seddon Park.

With thirty four required off eighteen balls and Taylor having been stumped off Adil Rashid, New Zealand's hopes were weakening.

But Santner reduced that equation to 9 off the ultimate six balls, before border a Chris Woakes yorker for four and smashing a six over mid-wicket once a large.

All-rounder Stokes appeared in court this month on a charge of affray and also the 1st hearing of his trial is scheduled for twelve March at metropolis Crown Court, though he's not needed to come back to the united kingdom to attend it.

He uncomprehensible the Ashes defeat in Australia, the one-day series convince Australia and therefore the the} T20 series also involving New Zealand, during which England did not qualify for the ultimate.

The next ODI within the five-match series takes place at Mount Maunganui at 01:00 GMT on weekday.

How did Stokes fare on his comeback?
The slow wicket in Hamilton wasn't causative to shot-making and Stokes came in at range 5 with the score at 104-3 within the twenty second over.

He was born on 2 once River Trent Boult couldn't clasp a firmly smitten straight drive in his follow-through, however once one reverse-swept four, Stokes succumbed to a sweep at slow left-armer Santner, that took the highest edge and coiled to Taylor running to his right at short third man.

In the field, Stokes was brought on to bowl the thirteenth over and his gap four-over spell came 0-15.

By then, he had already vie a neighborhood within the dismissal of Martin Guptill, the highest run-scorer within the T20 tri-series, taking a neat catch higher than his head within the covers.

With New Zealand wanting snug, Stokes tempted Latham into a pull that was well taken at position ANd he shortly adscititious the scalp of Colin First State Grandhomme with an extravagant process slower ball that was edged to the keeper.

Playing his 1st game since twenty four Gregorian calendar month, Stokes failed to bowl once more once his eighth over - the forty fourth of the New Zealand innings - value eleven runs.

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Kiwis claim thrilling success
Guptill and Hector Hugh Munro, New Zealand's powerhouse gap combine UN agency created 132 against Australia and beat seventy six from six overs against England within the T20 series, each fell cheaply - and prolific captain Kane Williamson departed within the tenth over.

But Taylor reached fifty from fifty nine balls and Latham, born by Buttler off Rashid on forty seven, reached his period of time from fifty five balls within the next over.

Williamson's call to bat second magnified in significance because the condensate below the lights created the ball easier for the house batsmen to play their strokes.

With eighty four required from eleven.1 overs, Jonny Bairstow misjudged an opportunity at deep mid-wicket offered by Latham off Tom Curran - however Stokes skint the partnership of 178 as New Zealand lost 3 wickets for ten runs in thirteen balls.

Taylor reached 3 figures from 109 balls, however with forty one left to attain, leg-spinner Rashid beat him with a superbly feathered, turning delivery that offered Buttler a routine candidature.

However, Santner sent Rashid for ordered leg-side sixes to scale back the need to twenty two from sixteen balls, and with solely 9 required from the ultimate over bowled by Woakes, the left-hander launched the fourth most of a surprising knock.