England cruise to victory

Sidebottom claimed four wickets in a 19-ball spell from the pavilion end as the New Zealanders lost by an innings and nine runs.

Fittingly it was James Anderson who finished things off when he had last man Chris Martin caught in the slips - his ninth victim of the match.

Sidebottom finished with six for 67 in the second innings, his fifth five-wicket haul inside the past 12 months.

Jacob Oram did his best to wipe out the deficit but fought single-handedly in hitting a 38-ball half-century.

The giant left-hander slammed six fours and two towering sixes, the second of which off Anderson put him one run short of his landmark.

He got there next ball but it left Martin on strike and Anderson found the outside edge at the first opportunity for Paul Collingwood to take his second slip catch of the morning.

England claimed five wickets for 35 in all, in a manic 40-ball spell, to claim a 2-0 npower series victory.

Oram's overnight partner Gareth Hopkins succumbed to a delivery angled across him in the sixth over of the day.

It was a dismissal which began a sequence of four catches from edges for Sidebottom at a cost of five runs. England's catching was impeccable with Strauss and Pietersen clutching chances offered by a flimsy Kiwi tail.