NZ VS ENG - 3rd T20I, England tour of New Zealand, 2019

So, 2-1 then, eh. Also, let's not forget this England side is without six of their their regular starters. New Zealand are without two. But still, in what's a massive testament to their cricketing prowess in this format, they've been churning out cricket of the highest order here. We'll leave you with that for now, as I, Vineet Anantharaman, sign off on behalf of Abhinand Raghavendran, Pradeep Krishnamurthy and our scorer, Praveen. Until Napier, and a 2-2 for Auckland's sake, ta ta!!

Tim Southee | Winning skipper: We showed as a group that it was going to get tough if we kept taking wickets. It was always going to be tough to hit from ball one. As long as Morgan was there they always were going to have a sniff. Colin has kicked on for us from Sri Lanka. He is a great team man and he is striking it really well; nice to see him kick on and get a big score. There are still a few areas we need to work on. It could have gone either way at the half way stage in the second innings.

Eoin Morgan | Losing skipper: It was one that got away from us. I thought we were in control all through the chase until we were three or four down. The lack of experience in the chase cost us. The guys coming in need to play a few more games to get that experience. It's great how competitive the series has been thus far. We are trying to integrate everybody into the squad. But certainly we feel that it's one that slipped away. Our gameplan remains the same; every thing about what we do is positive, smart, aggressive cricket. We want young guys to come in and adapt to that. A lot of positives to take away for us from today. A must win game for us as we move to Napier. An experienced Tom Curran in the end with the ball was brilliant, Sam has gone from strength to strength for us. He took the new ball for us and has been a massive positive.

Colin de Grandhomme | Player of the Match: I'm definitely enjoying batting at No.4. I was hitting the ball pretty well in Sri Lanka, carrying on now. The earlier you get in (to bat), not nice for the openers, it's nice on me; gives me more access to the boundaries.

Alomoy: Why do Southee & Ferguson perform exceptionally well in death overs of international cricket, whereas they are clobbered in IPL? 'Can the same be said about every other player as well'?

17:19 Local Time, 04:19 GMT, 09:49 IST: It was clearly England's. At 139/2 with Morgan just having smacked Santner for a couple of sixes and an asking rate of only around eight-an-over in the last five, it was obviously England's. But they've been choked, courtesy some exemplary death bowling. Southee came in for the 16th, squeezed in a three-run, one-wicket over. The one-match-old Tickner came on for the 17th, killed it further with Vince's wicket and a five-run over. Ferguson, and his thunderbolts, testified the burial in the 18th. But again, as much as you'd want to believe this was won at the death, it was the Kiwi batting, the age-old strategy of piling on first innings runs that was the clincher. Anyway, here come the presentations ..

Southee to Tom Curran, 2 runs, an arched back upper cut .. and a pretty good couple down to third man. And a 14-run steal

Southee to Saqib Mahmood, 1 run, nah. Short, outside off, a tall swat away to mid-wicket in the deep

Who's up for a string of no balls?

Southee to Saqib Mahmood, no run, 129.9kph, low off-lined full toss. Mahmood can only jab it back down the pitch

Southee to Tom Curran, 1 run, full, again not quite allowing Curran to get under it as he carves it down to long-off

Southee to Tom Curran, no run, 127.1kph, a hint of reverse here in this yorker as it tails in from wide of the crease onto off. Curran digs it to mid-off, and does a Dhoni .. yup, declines the single

19 | 5 | 3

Southee to Tom Curran, no run, 130.7kph, nails the yorker. Curran's cute paddle only ends up with an inside-edge onto himself

Tim Southee [3.0-0-24-0] is back into the attack

Ish Sodhi to Tom Curran, 1 run, steps down, swats, skews a miscue to point

Ish Sodhi to Tom Curran, SIX, dips into the meat of Curran's mow across the line. Whack. And deep mid-wicket. And England stay alive, even by the skin of their teeth

Ish Sodhi to Tom Curran, wide, goes reverse-sweeping one that's spinning away outside off. Misses. Oooh, and the umpire's suddenly harsh-ened himself up here

Ish Sodhi to Saqib Mahmood, 1 run, top-edges this pull, but without much power behind it. Quite lucky for him - not that it'll make any difference - but it'll land short of long-on

Ish Sodhi to Tom Curran, 1 run, another slog, another miscue, deep mid-wicket

Ish Sodhi to Saqib Mahmood, 1 run, floated up generously. Mahmood drags his slog against the turn, off the inside half tamelty to long-on