Summary

  • England lead 2-1 in five-match series

  • Williamson's brilliant 112* in vain

  • NZ captain fails to hit final ball for six

  • NZ collapse from 80-1 to 103-6

  • Munro 49; Moeen 3-36, Rashid 2-34

  • Eng 234: Morgan 48, Stokes 39

  1. NZ 230-8published at 49.5 overs

    Target 235

    Five needed from two. A low full toss is hit short of mid-off, Sodhi comes charging down the track, is sent back and it's a dot ball.

    So still five to win. One ball left. Four to tie. Six for glory...

  2. NZ 230-8published at 49.4 overs

    Target 235

    Chris Woakes has a long chat with Eoin Morgan before his fourth ball. He sends it full and Williamson digs out into the leg side and New Zealand run two. There is a review for a run out but Williamson is comfortably home.

  3. 6 runs

    NZ 228-8published at 49.3 overs

    Target 235

    Another slower ball, but Williamson spots it and launches it baseball-style over mid-wicket for six! With these short square boundaries, it was six all the way.

    Seven needed from three balls. And Charles Dagnall on TMS is worried that fine leg is up, leaving England vulnerable to the lap-sweep...

  4. NZ 222-8published at 49.2 overs

    Target 235

    After a dot Chris Woakes' second delivery is wide and Kane Williamson somehow flicks it leg side and New Zealand run two. 13 needed off four balls.

  5. NZ 220-8published at 49.1 overs

    Target 235

    Kane Williamson has changed his bat between overs. Chris Woakes to bowl the last six deliveries. Williamson... swings and misses again. NZ need 15 from five balls.

    What a time for Williamson's famed timing to desert him.

  6. NZ 220-8published at 49 overs

    Target 235

    Tom Curran holds his nerves after going for a boundary first ball. Kane Williamson pull his final ball through midwicket but its only a single. The New Zealand skipper has kept the strike, though.

  7. Postpublished at 08:34 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    Charles Dagnall
    BBC Test Match Special

    We said England's 234 would be a pretty decent total on this questionable surface - and so it's turned out.

  8. NZ 219-8published at 48.5 overs

    Target 235

    Williamson swings and misses at a well-disguised slower ball. A dot - 16 needed from seven balls.

  9. NZ 219-8published at 48.4 overs

    Target 235

    Kane Williamson can only jab the ball into the deck. Dot ball.

  10. NZ 219-8published at 48.3 overs

    Target 235

    A low full toss from Curran, Sodhi gets a bat on it and dabs a single to mid-wicket. 16 needed from nine balls.

  11. NZ 218-8published at 48.2 overs

    Target 235

    Kane Williamson gets a single off Tom Curran.

  12. 100 runs

    100 for Kane Williamsonpublished at 48.1 overs

    NZ 217-8 - target 235

    Tom Curran to bowl - getting the nod ahead of Wood and Stokes, though he's sometimes been a little expensive at the death.

    Williamson drives over mid-off for four - 18 needed from 11 balls - to bring up his 11th ODI century.

    Kane WilliamsonImage source, Getty Images
  13. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 08:30 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    #bbccricket

    Patrick Brennan: Having Tom Curran bowling at this point is unfathomable.

  14. Postpublished at 08:29 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    If you think about who you'd want to bat for your life, Kane Williamson would be right up there. So calm, so composed, such an intelligent batsman.

    New Zealand's Kane WilliamsonImage source, Getty Images
  15. NZ 213-8published at 48 overs

    Target 235

    A superb over at the death from Chris Woakes with a wicket and just three runs from it. Kane Williamson keeps the strike.

  16. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 08:25 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    Southee c Stokes b Woakes 7 (NZ 210-8)

    Gone! Tim Southee mistimes a pull from a slightly slower delivery from Chris Woakes. Ben Stokes has to wait an age for the ball to come down but he is ice-cool and calmly pockets the catch at deep square leg.

  17. Postpublished at 08:24 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    James Taylor
    Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

    Tim Southee is a good ball-striker - he has a lot of power with those long levers and can find the boundary. Ish Sodhi, we saw in the Twenty20s, can hold a bat and hang around for Williamson.

  18. NZ 210-7published at 47 overs

    Target 235

    Tim Southee is the new batter and he clips Tom Curran through mid-wicket for four. A desperate dive from Chris Woakes on the line but he cannot stop it. New Zealand follow up the boundary with five runs off the next five deliveries. Kane Williamson, meanwhile, is six runs short of his 11th ODI century.

    It's been a slow burner but we're in for a thrilling finish in Wellington.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 08:19 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    #bbccricket

    Graham Wright: Why does Santner bat so low in the order? He looks better than several above him.

  20. Postpublished at 08:19 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Woakes went for the return catch, but deflected it onto the stumps with his fingertips, and Santner was out of his ground.