(BBC) England suffered a 13-run Duckworth-Lewis loss in the second one dayer against New Zealand in a game that produced the highest number of runs ever seen in an ODI on English soil yesterday.
Chasing a record 399, England attacked from the off with Alex Hales scoring 54 and Eoin Morgan hitting 88 in 47 balls.
Rain halted play with England needing 54 from 37 balls and the revised target of 34 from 13 proved too great. They eventually reached 365-9.
Ross Taylor top-scored for New Zealand with an unbeaten 119 off 96 balls.
Kane Williamson scored 93 for the tourists in a game that produced an aggregate of 763 runs, beating the previous best in England by 112.
The circumstances of the defeat will be hard for England to take, particularly after a 70-run eighth-wicket stand between Adil Rashid and Liam Plunkett prior to the rain had given them hope of another remarkable victory to follow their record-breaking one at Edgbaston earlier in the week.
The 50-minute delay halted the momentum of the Yorkshire pair, who fell in the closing overs – Plunkett for 44 off 30 and Rashid for 34 off 26 – leaving Steven Finn and Chris Jordan with an impossible task.
