England Reached Champions Trophy Semifinal

England defeated a vivacious test from New Zealand and crushed them by 10 hurries to fit the bill for the semi-finals in Champions Trophy. 

Alastair Cook hit a forceful 64 while James Anderson grabbed 3 wickets. Alastair Cook is the man of the match for his thump of 64. 

Pursuing 170-run target, New Zealand battled as they lost wickets at normal interims. 

Kane Williamson (67) strolled once again to the structure when he neglected to tidy the spread up a Stuart Broad conveyance and was gotten by James Anderson. 

Williamson had advanced the New Zealand assault and was ended up being a danger for England. 

Corey Anderson was rejected soon after Williamson when he labored a Tim Bresnan conveyance and discovered James Anderson at long-on. With two settled batsmen out of the field, England tightened their grasp on the diversion. 

New Zealand got off to a terrible begin as they lost Luke Ronchi and Martin Guptill in snappy succession. 

James Anderson struck twice in same over to uproot Ronchi and Guptill and leave New Zealand tottering at 14/2 in 4 overs. 

Tim Bresnan included New Zealand troubles by rejecting Ross Taylor and gave England an early edge. 

Ravi Bopara likewise joined the part, uprooting Brendon Mccullum and James Franklin in his successive overs to lessen the Kiwis to 62/5 in 13.5 overs. 

Prior, New Zealand rejected England for 169 in a crux match in Cardiff on Sunday lessened by drizzle to 24 overs for every side. 

New Zealand might have had a more modest aggregate to pursue had not Nathan Mccullum dropped Alastair Cook, who beat scored with 64, three times preceding sticking onto a chance off his own particular rocking the bowling alley to end the England skipper's 47-ball innings. 

Left-hander Cook was dropped on 14, 37 and 45 by Nathan Mccullum, who did take four gets from seven shots. 

Seamer Kyle Mills returned figures of four wickets for 30 runs and left-arm snappy Mitchell Mcclenaghan three for 36, with England losing their final seven wickets for only 28 runs as their innings finished with three balls to extra. 

The downpour at long last yielded and the England-New Zealand match was diminished to a 24-overs for every-side challenge. New Zealand had prior won the hurl and chose to bowl first. 

Corey Anderson is making his introduction for New Zealand, set up of Tim Southee. 

Graeme Swann is out in view of a calf damage James Tredwell supplanted him. 

Groups 

England: Alastair Cook (Captain), Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott, Joe Root, Eoin Morgan, Ravi Bopara, Jos Buttler (wk), Tim Bresnan, Stuart Broad, James Tredwell, James Anderson 

New Zealand: Luke Ronchi (wk), Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, James Franklin, Brendon Mccullum (Captain), Daniel Vettori, Nathan Mccullum, Corey Anderson, Kyle Mills, Mitchell Mcclenaghan