Cricket World Cup: England vs New Zealand, Chester-le-Street - England bowl out the Black Caps to make the Semi-Finals

England's sprint finish of the group stage sees them surge into the semi-finals, thanks in part to their 119-run win over New Zealand.

England - 305-8 / 186 - New Zealand
England confirmed their place in the last four of a World Cup for the first time since 1992 with a win over New Zealand at Chester-le-Street.
Jonny Bairstow scored back-to-back hundreds, an opening stand of 123 with Jason Roy helping England to 305-8.

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Captain Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor suffered run outs - the latter thanks to a bullet throw from Adil Rashid - both only scoring into the 20s, leaving New Zealand 69-4.
The Black Caps then looked more intent on defending net run rate rather than winning the match - they were eventually bowled out for 186 with Mark Wood taking 3-34 at his home ground.
It means that New Zealand suffered three successive defeats, slipping to fourth in the table.
Pakistan could leapfrog them to take the final spot in the semi-finals, but they would need a huge swing in run-rate to deny Williamson's men a place in the semis.

Eoin Morgan had the benefit of winning an important toss, with batting seeming easier earlier in the day.
England always looked threatening with the ball, and their fielding was near faultless.
Jos Buttler dived to his left to catch Martin Guptill off his glove, with the crucial Williamson falling from a Taylor straight drive that Mark Wood got a finger-tip to, before the ball crashed into the stumps at the non-striker's end with Williamson out of his crease.
Roy's return to the team can't be over-estimated, his partnership with Bairstow was crucial in the win over India and again against New Zealand.
Despite being 111-7 in the last 20 overs, Bairstow had already done enough to get England past 300.

SCORECARD
England won the toss and decided to bat
England won by 119 runs

England InningsBatsman: How Out - Bowler / Runs / Balls / SR (4s, 6s)
Roy: c Santner - b Neesham / 60 / 61 / 98.36 (8, 0)
Bairstow: b Henry / 106 / 99 / 107.07 (15, 1)
Root: c Latham - b Boult / 24 / 25 / 96.00 (1, 0)
Buttler: c Williamson - b Boult / 11 / 12 / 91.67 (1, 0)
Morgan: c Santner - b Henry / 42 / 40 / 105.00 (5, 0)
Stokes: c Henry - b Santner / 11 / 27 / 40.74 (0, 0)
Woakes: c Williamson - b Neesham / 4 / 11 / 36.36 (0, 0)
Plunkett: not out / 15 / 12 / 125.00 (1, 0)
Rashid: b Southee / 16 / 12 / 133.33 (1, 0)
Archer: not out / 1 / 1 / 100.00 (0, 0)

Extras 0nb 7w 4b 4lb 15Total (50.0 overs) 305-8

Bowler: Overs / Maidens / Runs / Wickets / EconSantner: 10.0 / 0 / 65 / 1 / 6.50
Boult: 10.0 / 0 / 56 / 2 / 5.60
Southee: 9.0 / 0 / 70 / 1 / 7.78
Henry: 10.0 / 0 / 54 / 2 / 5.40
de Grandhomme: 1.0 / 0 / 11 / 0 / 11.00
Neesham: 10.0 / 1 / 41 / 2 / 4.10

Fall of Wicket - Batsman123-1 (18.4 ovs) - Roy
194-2 (30.1 ovs) - Root
206-3 (31.4 ovs) - Bairstow
214-4 (34.2 ovs) - Buttler
248-5 (41.6 ovs) - Stokes
259-6 (44.5 ovs) - Woakes
272-7 (46.1 ovs) - Morgan
301-8 (49.3 ovs) - Rashid

New Zealand InningsBatsman: How Out - Bowler / Runs / Balls / SR (4s, 6s)
Guptill: c Buttler - b Archer / 8 / 16 / 50.00 (1, 0)
Nicholls: lbw - b Woakes / 0 / 1 / 0.00 (0, 0)
Williamson: run out - (Wood) / 27 / 40 / 67.50 (3, 0)
Taylor: run out - (Rashid) / 28 / 42 / 66.67 (2, 0)
Latham: c Buttler - b Plunkett / 57 / 65 / 87.69 (5, 0)
Neesham: b Wood / 19 / 27 / 70.37 (1, 0)
de Grandhomme: c Root - b Stokes / 3 / 13 / 23.08 (0, 0)
Santner: lbw - b Wood / 12 / 30 / 40.00 (1, 0)
Southee: not out / 7 / 16 / 43.75 (0, 0)
Henry: b Wood / 7 / 13 / 53.85 (0, 0)
Boult: st Buttler - b Rashid / 4 / 7 / 57.14 (1, 0)

Extras 0nb 6w 2b 6lb 14Total (45.0 overs) 186 all out

Bowler: Overs / Maidens / Runs / Wickets / EconWoakes: 8.0 / 0 / 44 / 1 / 5.50
Archer: 7.0 / 1 / 17 / 1 / 2.43
Plunkett: 8.0 / 0 / 28 / 1 / 3.50
Wood: 9.0 / 0 / 34 / 3 / 3.78
Root: 3.0 / 0 / 15 / 0 / 5.00
Rashid: 5.0 / 0 / 30 / 1 / 6.00
Stokes: 5.0 / 0 / 10 / 1 / 2.00

Fall of Wicket - Batsman2-1 (0.5 ovs) - Nicholls
14-2 (5.2 ovs) - Guptill
61-3 (15.1 ovs) - Williamson
69-4 (16.4 ovs) - Taylor
123-5 (25.1 ovs) - Neesham
128-6 (28.1 ovs) - de Grandhomme
164-7 (38.3 ovs) - Latham
166-8 (39.2 ovs) - Santner
181-9 (43.4 ovs) - Henry
186-10 (44.6 ovs) - Boult

ICC Cricket World Cup Standings
Played | Won | Lost | No Result | Tied | NRR | Points
Australia        P 8 W 7 L 1 N/R 0 T 0 NRR +1 Pts 14
India               P 8 W 6 L 1 N/R 1 T 0 NRR +0.811 Pts 13
New Zealand P 8 W 5 L 2 N/R 1 T 0 NRR +0.572 Pts 11
England         P 8 W 5 L 3 N/R 0 T 0 NRR +1 Pts 10
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Pakistan         P 8 W 4 L 3 N/R 1 T 0 NRR -0.792 Pts 9
Sri Lanka        P 8 W 3 L 3 N/R 2 T 0 NRR -0.934 Pts 8
Bangladesh    P 8 W 3 L 4 N/R 1 T 0 NRR -0.195 Pts 7
South Africa   P 8 W 2 L 5 N/R 1 T 0 NRR -0.080 Pts 5
West Indies    P 8 W 1 L 6 N/R 1 T 0 NRR -0.335 Pts 3
Afghanistan    P 8 W 0 L 8 N/R 0 T 0 NRR -1.418 Pts 0

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