England vs New Zealand, 2nd ODI: Livingstone’s Half-Century and Speedsters Helped England Leveled the Series

England and New Zealand came against each other in the 2nd ODI of the series at Mangaung Oval, Bloemfontein. New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first.

Bairstow and Harry Brook came to bat and Boult opened the bowling attack. In the 2nd over, Bairstow started the over with a four and it was the first boundary of the match.  In the 3rd over, Bairstow got out after scoring 6(8) on the first ball and Root got out for a duck on the third ball. In the 5th over, Stokes got out after scoring 1(10) on the second ball. In the 7th over, Buttler hit back-to-back two fours and finished the over with a four. In the 8th over, Harry Brook got out after scoring 2(12) on the second ball and Moeen Ali finished the over with a four. After 10 overs, Eng was at 46-4.

In the 12th over, England reached 50 runs. In the 13th over, Buttler got out after scoring 30(25) on the first ball. In the 21th over, Moeen Ali hit a four on the second ball and England reached 100 runs and he got out after scoring 33(32) on the third ball. In the 23th over, Livingstone started the over with back-to-back two fours and hit a four on the fourth ball. In the 24th over, Livingstone took a single on the fifth ball and scored a half-century. After 25 overs, Eng was at 137-6.

In the 27th over, Livingstone hit a four on the second ball and England reached 150 runs. In the 30th over, Livingstone hit back-to-back two fours. In the 32th over, Livingstone finished the over with a six and England reached 200 runs. In the 33th over, Sam Curran started the over with a four and got out after scoring 42(35) on the second ball and Willey samshed a six on the third ball.

In 34 overs, England scored 226 runs with a loss of 7 wickets.

Chasing 227 runs, Finn Allen and Conway came to bat and Willey opened the bowling attack. In the 1st over, Finn Allen got out for a duck on the second ball. In the 3rd over, Will Young started the over with back-to-back three fours. In the 7th over, Conway finished the over with back-to-back two fours. In the 9th over, Conway got out after scoring 14(24) on the last ball. In the 10th over, New Zealand reached 50 runs. After 10 overs, NZ was at 51-2.

In the 12th over, Will Young got out after scoring 33(39) on the first ball. In the 19th over, Mitchell hit a four on the second, fourth, and fifth ball and New Zealand reached 100 runs. In the 21st over, Latham got out after scoring 19(22) on the third ball. In the 23rd over, Glenn Phillips got out after scoring 2(4) on the first ball, Ravindra hit a four on the second ball and got out after scoring 4(2) on the third ball. In the 25th over, Mitchell took a single on the fourth ball and scored a half-century. After 25 overs, NZ was at 133-6.

In the 26th over, Mitchell started the over with a six and got out after scoring 57(52) on the second ball and Santner got out after scoring 4(8) on the fourth ball and Southee finished the over with a four. In the 27th over, Southee got out after scoring 4(3) on the second ball and Boult got out after scoring 1(2) on the fifth ball. New Zealand got all out at 147 runs and lost the match by 79 runs.

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