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Broad-Anderson duo rout Kiwis

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Mount Maunganui, Feb 19: For New Zealand the end at least came quickly. England needed less than a session on the fourth day on Sunday to complete a 267-run win in the first day-night Test and to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
Stuart Broad who clean bowled four New Zealand top-order batters late on the third day to leave the home side 63/5 overnight and make the win imminent, finished with 4/49. His long-time and record-breaking partner James Anderson took 4/18, sealing the win when he bowled No. 11 Blair Tickner (8) about 15 minutes before tea as New Zealand was all out for 127.
That raised Anderson and Broad’s tally of Test wickets in partnership to 1,009 in 103 matches, eclipsing the record of 1,001 previously held by Australians Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne.
England will now take a 1-0 series lead into the second and final Test in Wellington from Friday.
“Obviously another great performance. We were very clinical with the bat and obviously very clinical with the ball,” England captain Ben Stokes said.
“When you’ve got Stuart Broad and James Anderson in your bowling attack it’s obviously going to very hard for anyone with a bat in their hand.” (AP)

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