England beat New Zealand to dump them out of the ICC World T20 tournament, at St Lucia. The game went down to the last over, but Tim Bresnan’s heroics saw the English through and with them, even Pakistan. 
New Zealand only needed to win their game against England to qualify for the semi-finals of the ICC World T20 but they also knew that if they lost, they would be out of the tournament. As compared to that, England were already through to the next round. 
New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat first, but lost Jesse Ryder early enough. Aaron Redmond, who was brought into the side for this game pottered around for a little, before offering a catch to Stuart Broad that he took well at square-leg, and then Brendon McCullum followed soon after to leave the Kiwis at 65/3 in the 11th over.
As we have so often seen in the tournament, the Kiwis started to get their runs towards the second half of their innings, as the man, who had earlier been out of form, Ross Taylor, smacked a 33-ball 44 and in partnership with Scot Styris (31 off 19), propelled the side to a total of 149/6 in the 20 overs.
Now, this was a total that was quite defendable, given that the pitch at St. Lucia was becoming more difficult to bat on. However, the New Zealand bowling, for some reason, started very badly.
Shane Bond was hit for a couple to the fence, while Nathan McCullum went for 13 in his first over. The openers were separated quickly, but Michael Lumb went on to smack a 32, even as England lost three wickets for six runs.
The absence of Pietersen seemed to be hurting the side, but Eoin Morgan took over and blasted the Kiwi attack to a 34-ball 41 to get the game back in balance. In fact, the English side needed 32 off 28 balls, before Tim Bresnan took over and hit three boundaries to bring England closer to win. Morgan and Yardy left in quick succession, but by then, the total was well within the English reach and they scored it with five balls to spare.
Bresnan’s all-round performance, 1/20 off his four and the unbeaten 23 won him the man of the match award.