Summary

  • England chase 160 to win by four wickets with three balls to spare

  • Defeat for New Zealand opens door for Pakistan - who must beat Sri Lanka on Saturday and rely on net run-rate swing

  • Jacks and Ahmed put on unbroken 44 to get England over line

  • Buttler out for duck as miserable tournament continues - England slip to 2-2

  • Rashid, Jacks and Ahmed take two wickets each as England bowl record 16 overs of spin

  • England were already through to semi-finals

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Elizabeth Botcherby

  1. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Good use of the feet from Santner. Got right to the pitch of the ball, check-drove it, held the pose and it goes for six.

  2. 6 runs

    NZ 159-7

    What a shot to end the innings!

    Beaten by a ragging googly the previous ball, Mitchell Santner is down the track to the last and plays a gorgeous lofted drive that sends the ball high over long-off for six.

    Good effort from the England bowlers, though, to drag things back.

  3. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Tournament cricket can be hard when you're sat on the bench. When you get the opportunity you want to prove you should be staying in the XI. Rehan Ahmed has bowled nicely.

  4. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Rehan Ahmed celebrates a wicketGetty Images

    Down the wicket came McConchie, trying to smack the ball to kingdom come, and Rehan Ahmed has his second.

    All seven wickets have fallen to spin.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    McConchie b Ahmed 14 (NZ 152-7)

    Rehan Ahmed has a second wicket!

    A misfield from Tom Banton gave Cole McConchie a bonus four the ball before but it works out as the right-hander stays on strike.

    He comes charging down to Ahmed, has a big swing and miss and the ball clatters into the timbers.

  6. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's rare in T20 cricket for a spinner to close out an innings but I think Harry Brook has this bang on. The ball is starting to grip and turning sharply.

  7. Well, it's going to be 16 because Rehan Ahmed will bowl the last...

  8. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    Most overs of spin bowled by England in a men's T20 World Cup match:

    • 15* vs New Zealand, Today
    • 11.4 vs Sri Lanka, Pallekele 2026
    • 11 vs Sri Lanka, Sharjah 2021
    • 10 vs Bangladesh, Abu Dhabi 2021
    • 10 vs Pakistan, Pallekele, 2026

  9. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Another splendid over from Adil Rashid. You'll take conceding five off the penultimate over with two big hitters at the crease.

  10. NZ 147-6

    Too good from Adil Rashid, beating Cole McConchie all ends up a number of times in the over.

    McConchie does get a couple away for twos and a leg-side wide makes it five from it in total.

    Who will bowl the last? Jofra Archer still one, Sam Curran has three...

  11. How's stat?!

    Kieran Parmley
    CricViz analyst

    Sam Curran's economy rate of 8.74 in the final five overs is bettered only by Corbin Bosch, Usman Tariq and Maheesh Theekshana at this World Cup - New Zealand will no doubt have done their homework and will be hoping to get the better of his yorker-heavy, pace on strategy.

  12. NZ 144-6

    Six or seven, Graham?! Even if Jos Buttler doesn't open, you can't be dropping someone as good as him that low down in a T20 - even if he is horribly out of form.

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    Is Buttler going to open for England? Or will they throw a curveball with either Rehan or Curran going out to pinch hit and drop Jos down to 6/7?

    Graham, Essex

  14. England are starting to take control on WinViz.

    WinViz has it 64-36 in England's favour against New ZealandBBC Sport/CricViz

  15. NZ 142-6

    Cole McConchie and Mitchell Santner put on 84 in New Zealand's win over Sri Lanka on Wednesday... on this very pitch.

    They know this surface well then and McConchie ends the boundary drought with a nice sweep behind square for four.

    Seven from the over.

  16. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The ball turns back and crashes into the stumps. New Zealand have lost three wickets for 12 runs and haven't had a boundary for 25 balls. They're spluttering at the moment to 160 if they're lucky.

  17. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Will Jacks celebrates the wicket of Glenn PhillipsGetty Images

    That ball has turned a mile back into Glenn Phillips. When you look at the shot in isolation, it looks a bad one, but you're not expecting it to turn that much. There's something in this pitch.

    The past three overs have been brilliant for England. The spin for England has clawed them back. It's not a 170, 180 pitch. It might be let's get to 150 and see what happens.

  18. wicket

    WICKET

    Phillips b Jacks 39 (NZ 135-6)

    Bowled 'im!

    An ugly heave from Glenn Phillips and Will Jacks' gets the ball to turn sharply and hit middle stump.

    We knew spin would play a big part in this one and so it is proving. England's slow bowlers have helped drag this innings back - but it's not necessarily great news ahead of the chase.

  19. NZ 135-5

    Excellent over from Liam Dawson to end his spell - and it is the fourth in a row without a boundary.

    New Zealand have lost all momentum and have three overs to try and change that going into the second innings.

  20. Matthew Henry
    BBC Sport journalist in Colombo

    Daryl Mitchell has played a lot of good innings against England. That was not one of them.