Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Bryan Young	c †Stewart b Gough	8	29	40	0	0	27.58
Blair Pocock	c Cork b Caddick	6	22	34	0	0	27.27
Adam Parore	c †Stewart b Gough	4	5	15	1	0	80.00
Stephen Fleming	c & b Caddick	1	19	25	0	0	5.26
Nathan Astle	c Croft b Gough	36	90	118	3	0	40.00
Chris Cairns	c Hussain b Gough	3	6	4	0	0	50.00
Lee Germon (c)†	c †Stewart b Caddick	10	27	46	0	0	37.03
Dipak Patel	c Cork b Caddick	45	66	99	6	0	68.18
Simon Doull	c †Stewart b Gough	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
Geoff Allott	c Knight b Cork	1	18	31	0	0	5.55
Daniel Vettori	not out	3	10	13	0	0	30.00
Extras	(lb 5, nb 2)	7
Total	48.3 Ov (RR: 2.55, 219 Mins)	124
Fall of wickets 1-14 (Blair Pocock), 2-18 (Bryan Young), 3-19 (Adam Parore), 4-19 (Stephen Fleming), 5-23 (Chris Cairns), 6-48 (Lee Germon), 7-85 (Nathan Astle), 8-85 (Simon Doull), 9-106 (Geoff Allott), 10-124 (Dipak Patel)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	NB
Dominic Cork	14	4	34	1	2.42	-	2
Andy Caddick	18.3	5	45	4	2.43	-	0
Darren Gough	16	6	40	5	2.50	-	1

England 1st Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Nick Knight	c Patel b Doull	8	10	12	1	0	80.00
Mike Atherton (c)	lbw b Doull	30	70	95	3	0	42.85
Alec Stewart †	c Fleming b Allott	52	86	122	6	0	60.46
Nasser Hussain	c Young b Vettori	64	158	188	6	1	40.50
Graham Thorpe	st †Germon b Patel	108	249	329	12	0	43.37
John Crawley	c †Germon b Doull	56	141	187	4	1	39.71
Dominic Cork	lbw b Astle	7	45	59	0	0	15.55
Robert Croft	c Fleming b Doull	0	4	6	0	0	0.00
Darren Gough	c Fleming b Doull	18	34	47	3	0	52.94
Andy Caddick	c Allott b Vettori	20	18	24	2	0	111.11
Phil Tufnell	not out	6	14	21	0	0	42.85
Extras	(b 3, lb 9, nb 2)	14
Total	137.3 Ov (RR: 2.78, 550 Mins)	383
Fall of wickets 1-10 (Nick Knight), 2-80 (Mike Atherton), 3-106 (Alec Stewart), 4-213 (Nasser Hussain), 5-331 (Graham Thorpe), 6-331 (John Crawley), 7-331 (Robert Croft), 8-357 (Dominic Cork), 9-357 (Darren Gough), 10-383 (Andy Caddick)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	NB
Simon Doull	28	10	75	5	2.67	-	0
Geoff Allott	31	6	91	1	2.93	-	2
Daniel Vettori	34.3	10	98	2	2.84	-	0
Chris Cairns	4	2	8	0	2.00	-	0
Nathan Astle	14	5	30	1	2.14	-	2
Dipak Patel	24	6	59	1	2.45	-	0
Blair Pocock	2	0	10	0	5.00	-	0

New Zealand 2nd Innings

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Blair Pocock	c Knight b Gough	64	271	335	5	0	23.61
Bryan Young	c †Stewart b Tufnell	56	103	132	6	0	54.36
Adam Parore	lbw b Croft	15	94	116	0	0	15.95
Stephen Fleming	c & b Croft	0	11	10	0	0	0.00
Dipak Patel	lbw b Croft	0	2	5	0	0	0.00
Lee Germon (c)†	b Gough	11	49	58	0	0	22.44
Nathan Astle	c †Stewart b Gough	4	13	26	0	0	30.76
Chris Cairns	c Knight b Caddick	22	59	61	3	0	37.28
Simon Doull	c Knight b Gough	0	3	2	0	0	0.00
Geoff Allott	b Caddick	2	15	25	0	0	13.33
Daniel Vettori	not out	2	7	14	0	0	28.57
Extras	(b 5, lb 4, nb 6)	15
Total	103.2 Ov (RR: 1.84, 398 Mins)	191
Fall of wickets 1-89 (Bryan Young), 2-125 (Adam Parore), 3-125 (Stephen Fleming), 4-125 (Dipak Patel), 5-161 (Lee Germon), 6-164 (Blair Pocock), 7-175 (Nathan Astle), 8-175 (Simon Doull), 9-182 (Geoff Allott), 10-191 (Chris Cairns)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	NB
Dominic Cork	10	1	42	0	4.20	-	2
Andy Caddick	27.2	11	40	2	1.46	-	0
Robert Croft	20	9	19	3	0.95	-	1
Darren Gough	23	9	52	4	2.26	-	0
Phil Tufnell	23	9	29	1	1.26	-	4

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Close of Play

Thu, 06 Feb

day 1 - New Zealand 1st innings 56/6 (Nathan Astle 15*, Dipak Patel 5*)

Fri, 07 Feb

day 2 - England 1st innings 204/3 (Nasser Hussain 60*, Graham Thorpe 47*)

Sat, 08 Feb

day 3 - New Zealand 2nd innings 48/0 (Blair Pocock 13*, Bryan Young 32*)

Sun, 09 Feb

day 4 - New Zealand 2nd innings 125/4 (Blair Pocock 45*, Lee Germon 0*)

Mon, 10 Feb

day 5 - New Zealand 2nd innings 191 (103.2 ov) - end of match

Match Flow

General

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Lunch: NZ 177/8 (Cairns 12*, Allott 0*)

England take the new ball after 81 overs.

England's 3rd innings victory against NZ in the past 8 Tests between the 2 countries (others were 1991/92 1st Test, 1994 1st Test). These are the only innings victories by England against any country in the past 10 years.

Match Details

GroundBasin Reserve, Wellington

TossNew Zealand, elected to bat first

Series

England tour of New Zealand

Season1996/97

Player Of The Match

Graham Thorpe

Series resultEngland led the 3-match series 1-0

Match numberTest no. 1354

Match daysday (5-day match)

Test debut