#phil-salt

#phil-salt

A 129-run partnership between Phil Salt and Harry Brook powered the tourists towards a score of 236 for four and, though the Black Caps demonstrated some mighty power-hitting of their own, they simply could not do it often enough, and too regularly lost wickets in trying. Adil Rashid took four wickets and Jordan Cox four catches as New Zealand were dismissed for 171 with two overs remaining, England winning by 65.

England made history, and for the first time more than 300 runs, on an extraordinary night in Manchester as they buried South Africa under a mountain of runs and shredded statistics. The highest total in the team's T20 history was turbocharged by a brilliant opening stand of 126 between Phil Salt and Jos Buttler and by the nation's highest individual score, Salt knocking himself off the top of that chart with an unbeaten 141.