England cricket participant scores: Harry Brook stars once more however Zak Crawley’s struggles vs New Zealand proceed | Cricket Information

We charge England’s gamers out of 10 after their series-clinching 323-run win over New Zealand within the second Check on the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

Zak Crawley – 4/10

17 off 23 balls
8 off 7 balls

It’s cricketing lore, definitely within the ‘Bazball’ period, that there should all the time be one batter battling for kind and for his or her place within the aspect – two wins in two and the sequence secured, or not – and that man proper now’s Crawley. Because it has been too typically in his 52-Check profession.

Crawley averages solely a smidge over 30 throughout that reasonably appreciable pattern dimension, and his file in opposition to New Zealand particularly makes for grim studying – a median of 10.15 throughout 10 Assessments following his newest two failures.

He did nonetheless discover the time to develop into solely the second batter, after the West Indies’ Chris Gayle, to hit a six within the first over of a Check match, whereas his back-to-back boundaries belted by the covers to open England’s second innings have been paying homage to his eye-catching opening to the Ashes at Edgbaston final 12 months, however transient cameos of that ilk certainly cannot maintain him an excessive amount of longer.

Additionally, it is now 4 occasions in 4 innings (and 6 occasions total) that Matt Henry has taken his wicket, with Crawley but to register a single run in opposition to the seamer but this sequence. Yikes!

Ben Duckett – 7/10

0 off 8 balls
92 off 112 balls

Henry additionally bagged Duckett for a duck within the first innings, the opener’s famed reluctance to go away any supply contributing to his downfall as, in massively seamer-friendly circumstances, he poked a thick edge to second slip in England’s 43-4 begin on the primary morning.

He was again to his greatest on his second go spherical although, his 92 off 112 balls – a part of an 187-run stand for the second wicket with Jacob Bethell – seeing him transfer third on the main run-scorers record in Assessments for 2024, his 1,134 for the 12 months trailing solely India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal (1,304) and Joe Root (1,470).

Lacking out on a fifth Check ton will niggle away at him, thoughts you, as he adopted in Bethell’s footsteps by falling within the nineties, chopping one onto his stumps off Tim Southee.

Jacob Bethell – 8/10

16 off 28 balls
96 off 118 balls

Bethell once more “looked to the manor born”, as poetically put by Sky Sports’ Ian Ward after the 21-year-old notched his career-best first-class rating in England’s second innings.

A maiden Check ton was inside his grasp, solely a boundary away, and so it was no nice shock to see the swashbuckling left-hander perish when making an attempt exactly the form of expansive drive that might have gotten him there.

The teenager did not seem too devastated by his demise, one other tick subsequent to his temperament two Assessments into his England profession, and what initially regarded like a short-lived experiment at No 3 main into this sequence might find yourself being a everlasting resolution as he tightens his grip on the place with every passing knock.

Joe Root – 8/10

3 off 7 balls
106 off 130 balls

Root fell foul of these seamer-friendly circumstances on the primary morning when carding a uncommon low one, earlier than he has again to his hundred-scoring methods within the second – introduced up in some model too with a trademark reverse-ramp for 4.

His 106 off 130 balls stretched over days two and three represents a sixth Check ton of 2024, a nineteenth since 2021 – 10 greater than Kane Williamson’s next-best mark of 9 – and a thirty sixth for his profession, tying Rahul Dravid for fifth all-time among the many recreation’s most prolific century makers.

Is he the best player in the world? “He is right now, unquestionably,” according to Sky Sports’ Michael Atherton. “It is an unimaginable run of kind. He’s enjoying fairly fantastically and at his best possible.”

Harry Brook – 9/10

123 off 115 balls
55 off 61 balls

If Root is greatest on the planet, this man – Participant of the Match after scoring a second successive century within the sequence – is a detailed second. Fairly actually, in line with the present ICC Check rankings.

His eighth Test hundred is also Brook’s personal “favourite”, he stated after rescuing England from 43-4 within the first innings, sharing in a significant 174-run partnership with Ollie Pope – extra on him in a second – to really lay the groundwork for the vacationers’ series-clinching victory, skipper Ben Stokes hailing the pair’s “bravery”.

It is also his seventh abroad century, enhancing his astonishing common away from dwelling to a Sir Don Bradman-esque 91.50.

Ollie Pope – 7/10

66 off 78 balls
10 off 26 balls

Main into the sequence, Pope was in the identical boat Crawley at the moment finds himself on account of a poor run of kind at No 3.

Whereas he’s removed from out of the woods but – his Check future trying susceptible as Bethell settles into the highest order and with Jamie Smith sure to come back straight again into the aspect as his paternity depart concludes with this tour – he has made some very important contributions to England’s sequence success.

In addition to proving a greater than succesful deputy with the wicketkeeping gloves, Pope’s swap to No 6 has allowed him to rediscover some contact with the bat away from the added glare of first wicket down. It has additionally seen him share in a few rescue missions with Brook – from 71-4 to 222-5 within the first Check and 43-4 to 217-5 right here – reasonably than have a hand within the flimsy foundations as he was beforehand.

He definitely seems to be extra at dwelling within the center order, nevertheless it’s exhausting to see a extra everlasting dwelling for him there sooner or later.

Ben Stokes – 7/10

2 off 15 balls
49no off 42 balls
1-21 from 8 overs
3-5 from 2.2 overs

There are encouraging indicators that Stokes may simply be beginning to rediscover his greatest kind after hamstring harm absence from August adopted carefully on the again of a long-running knee subject that required surgical procedure final winter.

Stokes performed in opposition to the West Indies in early summer season after which, after lacking the Sri Lanka sequence, returned for the ultimate two Assessments of the Pakistan tour however his bowling spells have been minimal, virtually as transient as his contributions with the bat.

A fast-fire 49 off 42 balls within the second-innings right here was extra the classic, boundary-clearing Stokes we have come to know and love, whereas he additionally bagged three bonus wickets on the back-end to wrap up the win in Wellington.

Chris Woakes – 6/10

1-26 from 8 overs
2-20 from 10 overs

Woakes hasn’t precisely screamed in your consideration on this sequence like his fellow seamers, however he has quietly gone about taking six wickets at a median of 29.16.

Within the contest of his much-publicised struggles abroad, that’s his second-highest haul in any sequence away from dwelling, second solely to the 2017/18 Ashes, the place he took 10 wickets throughout 4 Assessments at a median 49.50, which is definitely worse than his profession common exterior of the UK (48.93).

May the 35-year-old have lastly cracked it away from dwelling? Maybe that could be a stretch too far, however definitely his opening spell within the second innings was standout, with Devon Conway bowled by the gate by a magnificence and the nice Williamson despatched packing cheaply, nicking off, to set England on the course for a snug victory.

Gus Atkinson – 7/10

4-31 from 8.5 overs
1-68 from 12 overs

Maybe 7-10 is a contact harsh for a person to take solely England’s fifteenth hat-trick in Check historical past, however Atkinson himself even admitted after his starring second to finish the New Zealand first innings that he has struggled at occasions for rhythm and never but discovered his peak kind on this tour.

Nicely, he definitely situated it for 3 deliveries on the second morning of the Check, first flattening Nathan Smith’s center stump through an inside edge, getting Henry fending a brief ball to gully, after which securing his place within the historical past books with the right poker face as he bluffed Southee lbw with the sector set again for short-pitched bowling.

Nicely performed, sir.

Brydon Carse – 8/10

4-46 from 10 overs
2-53 from 11 overs

Carse, once more, was the decide of the seamers, following up his Participant of the Match 10-for within the series-opener in Christchurch with an additional six scalps right here – taking sequence tally to a staggering 16 wickets at a median of 12.8.

And that conceivably have been 17, however for a no-ball costing him a shocking dismissal of Williamson for 20 within the first innings, sending his off stump again with a magnificence that pitched in line and simply straightened a contact to deceive the Black Caps nice.

Carse would greater than make amends for his error, firstly taking a terrific diving catch as a part of Rachin Ravindra’s first-innings downfall and by finally taking the wicket of Williamson anyway for 37, as a part of a late double-strike on day one which additionally noticed off Daryl Mitchell. Carse would then bowl Tom Blundell with a near-identical supply to his Williamson wicket that by no means was early on the second morning, earlier than including two extra top-order victims to his tally within the second innings.

Shoaib Bashir – 6/10

2-110 from 19 overs

In a position to put his ft up for a lot of this Check, not required within the first innings because the seamers did all of the work.

He was known as up within the second and, as has been the case ever since making his Check debut in India to begin the 12 months, Bashir confirmed nice character within the face of some actual intent proven by Blundell in opposition to him – 4 of the batter’s 5 sixes for his inning coming in opposition to the off-spinner.

However the 21-year-old would have the final snicker, due to a serving to hand from Duckett as he claimed a terrific catch working spherical from slip because the the Black Caps batter regarded to comb, whereas Bashir’s different wicket, earlier on the third day was a magnificence to bowl Glenn Phillips by the gate.

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