DHAKA: England are facing New Zealand bowlers in the teams’ ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Pool A match at Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Friday morning.
Till filling of the report, England have scored 43 runs for two at the end of over-10.
New Zeeland’s Tim Southee sent both English openers - IR Bell and MM Ali – back to the pavilion. England’s GS Ballance and JE Root are at the crease now.
Earlier, England won the toss and decided to bat. The match kicked off at 7:00am Bangladesh time. Both sides, however, made no change to their teams.
England began their WC mission by loosing with the tournament co-host Australia.
Another co-host News Zeeland, in their first match, defeated Sri Lanka. Kiwis, in their second match, also won over the Scotland and topped the Pool A point list.
Squads
New Zealand
BB McCullum*, CJ Anderson, TA Boult, GD Elliott, MJ Guptill, TWM Latham, MJ McClenaghan, NL McCullum, KD Mills, AF Milne, L Ronchi†, TG Southee, LRPL Taylor, DL Vettori, KS Williamson
England
EJG Morgan*, JC Buttler†, MM Ali, JM Anderson, GS Ballance, IR Bell, RS Bopara, SCJ Broad, ST Finn, AD Hales, CJ Jordan, JE Root, JWA Taylor, JC Tredwell, CR Woakes
BDST: 0806/1231 HRS, FEB 20, 2015
** English facing Kiwis bowling