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Big-hitting Harry Brook scored a breathtaking 135 to prevention England’s blushes arsenic the tourists were dismissed for 223 successful the archetypal one-day planetary against New Zealand connected Sunday (October 26, 2025).
Seamer Zakary Foulkes took vantage of adjuvant aboriginal conditions to assertion 4 wickets, scything done the apical bid arsenic England slumped to 10-4 and past 56-6.
Captain Brook led the betterment with a scintillating career-best ODI score, his dismissal bringing the innings to a adjacent successful the 36th implicit astatine Bay Oval successful Mount Maunganui.
He raised his ton with 3 successive sixes disconnected Jacob Duffy, earlier going connected to surpass his erstwhile champion people of 110 not out, against Australia successful Chester-le-Street past year.
Brook struck 11 sixes successful a 101-ball knock, including a skied changeable implicit 3rd antheral to bring up 50 disconnected 36 deliveries.
Jamie Overton was the lone different batsman to scope treble figures, posting a career-best 46 successful a seventh-wicket basal of 87 with Brook.
Earlier, Matt Henry (2-53) clean-bowled Jamie Smith from the archetypal shot of the innings aft England were sent in.
Foulkes (4-41) followed up with the prized wickets of Ben Duckett and Joe Root successful his archetypal over, impressing with his gait and movement.
Jacob Bethall, Jos Buttler and Sam Curran were besides victims of the caller shot brace wrong a disastrous archetypal 12 overs for England.
Seamer Duffy removed Overton and finished with 3-55.
New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner removed Brook, caught successful the heavy to assertion his sole wicket.
The remaining matches are successful Hamilton connected Wednesday (October 29, 2025) and Wellington connected Saturday (November 1, 2025).
England won the three-match T20 bid 1-0 aft 2 games were washed retired by bedewed New Zealand weather.
