England's football team may not be playing in Euro 2008, but the people can instead focus on the country's cricket team.
A combination of magnificent England bowling and poor New Zealand batting gave England an emphatic victory on the Fourth Day of the Third, and final, Test in Nottingham this morning with a day to spare.
The win was so emphatic that England didn't need to bat for a second time.
England have won the Series 2-0, with the first game drawn.
England and New Zealand now play each other in a Series in the One Day version of the game, before England play South Africa in another Test Series later in the summer.
The victory means England move up to third in the World Rankings, above South Africa and below India. Australia are still No1.
The BBC
By Jamie Lillywhite
Third Test, Trent Bridge, Nottingham (day four)
1st Innings
England 364
New Zealand 123
2nd Innings
New Zealand 232
England win by an innings and 9 runs.
England win the three game Series 2-0 (first match was a draw).
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SCORECARDS
1st Innings
ENGLAND
Strauss c Taylor b Mills 37
Cook b Mills 6
Vaughan b O'Brien 16
Pietersen c Hopkins b O'Brien 115
Bell lbw b O'Brien 0
Collingwood c Taylor b Mills 0
Ambrose c Hopkins b O'Brien 67
Broad b Martin 64
Anderson c Hopkins b Oram 28
Sidebottom not out 7
Panesar c McCullum b Vettori 0
Extras 1w 3b 4lb 5
Total All Out 364 (126.5 overs)
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NEW ZEALAND
How c Ambrose b Anderson 40
Redmond b Anderson 1
McCullum b Anderson 9
Taylor c Pietersen b Anderson 21
Flynn lbw b Anderson 0
Hopkins lbw b Anderson 15
Oram c Ambrose b Anderson 7
Vettori c Strauss b Sidebottom 7
Mills c Pietersen b Broad 1
O'Brien b Broad 0
Martin not out 0
Extras 6w 8b 8lb 22
Total All Out 123 (46.3 overs)
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2nd Innings
NEW ZEALAND
How c Cook b Sidebottom 19
Redmond c Ambrose b Broad 2
McCullum b Anderson 71
Taylor lbw b Broad 14
Flynn c Ambrose b Sidebottom 49
Hopkins c Ambrose b Sidebottom 12
Oram not out 50
Vettori c Pietersen b Sidebottom 1
Mills c Strauss b Sidebottom 2
O'Brien c Collingwood b Sidebottom 4
Martin c Collingwood b Anderson 0
Extras 4nb 1w 10b 9lb 24
Total All Out 232 (72.3 overs)
England's Pietersen and Sidebottom both had major influences on the match
England secured victory by an innings and nine runs in the final Test to seal a 2-0 series triumph over New Zealand.
They needed barely an hour to capture the remaining five Kiwi wickets, with Ryan Sidebottom taking four of them.
Needing 64 to make England bat again, the tourists added some quick early runs through lusty Jacob Oram strokes.
Oram hit two sixes in 50 from 39 balls, but Sidebottom's swing was too much for the tail and man-of-the-match James Anderson's ninth wicket settled it.
New Zealand's position had the rather despondent air of England's in the infamous Headingley Test in 1981.
Champagne flows as England celebrate a 2-0 Series win over New Zealand at Trent Bridge this morning
It was actually better, as England were then 135-7 and 92 behind in their follow-on, but they had Ian Botham and added 201 for their final three wickets.
Briefly, it appeared that Oram might play some kind of Botham role.
Broad, with the exuberance of youth, a Test fifty and a vibrant blond mane, worked on the theory that Oram is susceptible to the short-pitched delivery.
The surface was really too benign to cause him problems and Oram swatted him away with relative ease.
But it has been the swinging ball that has done the damage in this match, and the canny Sidebottom knew that, picking up 4-12 from his morning spell.
Oram briefly scattered the spectators with some mighty, defiant hitting
Debutant Gareth Hopkins got one that both swung and bounced and from then on it was a relative procession.
Skipper Daniel Vettori looked weary from the rigours of another series defeat, no doubt reflecting on the previous Test at Old Trafford, when having been 229 ahead with nine second innings wickets intact, his team were bowled out for 114 and lost by six wickets.
Vettori's own dogged batting form has dipped dramatically, which is another major factor in the outcome of the three matches.
Having made 173 runs in the first three innings during the winter series, the left-hander has scored just 13 in the last two Tests and here he sliced rather tamely to gully.
Sidebottom kept the ball moving in the corridor of uncertainty to oust Kyle Mills and Iain O'Brien, who tentatively prodded to first and second slip respectively.
Fittingly it was Anderson who applied the gloss, with the wicket of every bowler's favourite batsman, Chris Martin.
He was swatted for an almighty six over long-on by Oram, who will no doubt be a dangerous customer in the limited overs matches that follow, but produced the ideal delivery for Martin.
The last man epitomised the general New Zealand frailty against an accurate swinging ball, edging to second slip to put England in good heart for the very different proposition that is Friday's Twenty20 extravaganza.
Meanwhile, England's series victory moved them up to third in the ICC's Test rankings, one point above South Africa and just one point behind second-placed India. Michael Vaughan's men will move up to second if they beat South Africa later this summer, and India fail to win their forthcoming series in Sri Lanka.
After England took nine Kiwi wickets on Saturday, New Zealand will resume their second innings on 177-5, still 64 runs behind
Ryan Sidebottom strikes an early blow, having Gareth Hopkins caught behind by fellow wicket-keeper Tim Ambrose
Jacob Oram responds to the loss of Hopkins by lifting Stuart Broad over the square leg boundary for six
But the very next over, Daniel Vettori edges Sidebottom to Kevin Pietersen at backward point, leaving the Black Caps 205-7
Sidebottom picks up his third and fourth wickets of the morning in quick succession, ensnaring Kyle Mills and Iain O'Brien
And England wrap up an innings victory when last man Chris Martin (right) edges man-of-the-match Anderson to second slip
It secures a 2-0 series victory for England - with the one-day internationals and the South Africa series to come
And the champagne flows as England celebrate their victory
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A combination of magnificent England bowling and poor New Zealand batting gave England an emphatic victory on the Fourth Day of the Third, and final, Test in Nottingham this morning with a day to spare.
The win was so emphatic that England didn't need to bat for a second time.
England have won the Series 2-0, with the first game drawn.
England and New Zealand now play each other in a Series in the One Day version of the game, before England play South Africa in another Test Series later in the summer.
The victory means England move up to third in the World Rankings, above South Africa and below India. Australia are still No1.
The BBC
By Jamie Lillywhite
Third Test, Trent Bridge, Nottingham (day four)
1st Innings
England 364
New Zealand 123
2nd Innings
New Zealand 232
England win by an innings and 9 runs.
England win the three game Series 2-0 (first match was a draw).
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SCORECARDS
1st Innings
ENGLAND
Strauss c Taylor b Mills 37
Cook b Mills 6
Vaughan b O'Brien 16
Pietersen c Hopkins b O'Brien 115
Bell lbw b O'Brien 0
Collingwood c Taylor b Mills 0
Ambrose c Hopkins b O'Brien 67
Broad b Martin 64
Anderson c Hopkins b Oram 28
Sidebottom not out 7
Panesar c McCullum b Vettori 0
Extras 1w 3b 4lb 5
Total All Out 364 (126.5 overs)
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NEW ZEALAND
How c Ambrose b Anderson 40
Redmond b Anderson 1
McCullum b Anderson 9
Taylor c Pietersen b Anderson 21
Flynn lbw b Anderson 0
Hopkins lbw b Anderson 15
Oram c Ambrose b Anderson 7
Vettori c Strauss b Sidebottom 7
Mills c Pietersen b Broad 1
O'Brien b Broad 0
Martin not out 0
Extras 6w 8b 8lb 22
Total All Out 123 (46.3 overs)
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2nd Innings
NEW ZEALAND
How c Cook b Sidebottom 19
Redmond c Ambrose b Broad 2
McCullum b Anderson 71
Taylor lbw b Broad 14
Flynn c Ambrose b Sidebottom 49
Hopkins c Ambrose b Sidebottom 12
Oram not out 50
Vettori c Pietersen b Sidebottom 1
Mills c Strauss b Sidebottom 2
O'Brien c Collingwood b Sidebottom 4
Martin c Collingwood b Anderson 0
Extras 4nb 1w 10b 9lb 24
Total All Out 232 (72.3 overs)
England secured victory by an innings and nine runs in the final Test to seal a 2-0 series triumph over New Zealand.
They needed barely an hour to capture the remaining five Kiwi wickets, with Ryan Sidebottom taking four of them.
Needing 64 to make England bat again, the tourists added some quick early runs through lusty Jacob Oram strokes.
Oram hit two sixes in 50 from 39 balls, but Sidebottom's swing was too much for the tail and man-of-the-match James Anderson's ninth wicket settled it.
New Zealand's position had the rather despondent air of England's in the infamous Headingley Test in 1981.
Champagne flows as England celebrate a 2-0 Series win over New Zealand at Trent Bridge this morning
It was actually better, as England were then 135-7 and 92 behind in their follow-on, but they had Ian Botham and added 201 for their final three wickets.
Briefly, it appeared that Oram might play some kind of Botham role.
Broad, with the exuberance of youth, a Test fifty and a vibrant blond mane, worked on the theory that Oram is susceptible to the short-pitched delivery.
The surface was really too benign to cause him problems and Oram swatted him away with relative ease.
But it has been the swinging ball that has done the damage in this match, and the canny Sidebottom knew that, picking up 4-12 from his morning spell.
Debutant Gareth Hopkins got one that both swung and bounced and from then on it was a relative procession.
Skipper Daniel Vettori looked weary from the rigours of another series defeat, no doubt reflecting on the previous Test at Old Trafford, when having been 229 ahead with nine second innings wickets intact, his team were bowled out for 114 and lost by six wickets.
Vettori's own dogged batting form has dipped dramatically, which is another major factor in the outcome of the three matches.
Having made 173 runs in the first three innings during the winter series, the left-hander has scored just 13 in the last two Tests and here he sliced rather tamely to gully.
Sidebottom kept the ball moving in the corridor of uncertainty to oust Kyle Mills and Iain O'Brien, who tentatively prodded to first and second slip respectively.
Fittingly it was Anderson who applied the gloss, with the wicket of every bowler's favourite batsman, Chris Martin.
He was swatted for an almighty six over long-on by Oram, who will no doubt be a dangerous customer in the limited overs matches that follow, but produced the ideal delivery for Martin.
The last man epitomised the general New Zealand frailty against an accurate swinging ball, edging to second slip to put England in good heart for the very different proposition that is Friday's Twenty20 extravaganza.
Meanwhile, England's series victory moved them up to third in the ICC's Test rankings, one point above South Africa and just one point behind second-placed India. Michael Vaughan's men will move up to second if they beat South Africa later this summer, and India fail to win their forthcoming series in Sri Lanka.
After England took nine Kiwi wickets on Saturday, New Zealand will resume their second innings on 177-5, still 64 runs behind
Ryan Sidebottom strikes an early blow, having Gareth Hopkins caught behind by fellow wicket-keeper Tim Ambrose
Jacob Oram responds to the loss of Hopkins by lifting Stuart Broad over the square leg boundary for six
But the very next over, Daniel Vettori edges Sidebottom to Kevin Pietersen at backward point, leaving the Black Caps 205-7
Sidebottom picks up his third and fourth wickets of the morning in quick succession, ensnaring Kyle Mills and Iain O'Brien
And England wrap up an innings victory when last man Chris Martin (right) edges man-of-the-match Anderson to second slip
It secures a 2-0 series victory for England - with the one-day internationals and the South Africa series to come
And the champagne flows as England celebrate their victory
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