WT20 Statistical highlights: England vs New Zealand

# Daniel Vettori [ Images ] was leading New Zealand [ Images ] for the 26th time in a Twenty20 [ Images ] international match. He has now made most appearances as a captain in this format. Vettori went ahead of South Africa's [ Images ] Graeme Smith's [ Images ] tally of 25.

# Shane Bond's [ Images ] wicket of Luke Wright [ Images ] was his 50th in Twenty20 matches. He was playing his 40th match.

# Shane Bond also took his tally of wickets in Twenty20 internationals to 25. He became second New Zealand bowler to do so after Daniel Vettori (34).

# The first wicket partnership of 30 runs, second wicket partnership of 29 runs and fourth wicket partnership of 62 runs are all highest for New Zealand against England [ Images ] for respective wickets.

# When he dismissed Michael Yardy, Nathan McCullum was inflicting a duck on the opposing batsman for the fifth time – most by any New Zealand bowler.

# First over of England's innings produced 13 runs – most productive first over for England in all Twenty20 internationals. The previous record was of 10 runs made on two occasions.

# New Zealand extended their record of losing most Twenty20 international matches to 19. They also share the record of losing most matches (8) in ICC [ Images ] World Twenty20 with Bangladesh and England.

# England's win by 3 wickets was only the sixth win by a side batting second out of 22 games in this tournament.

# The win was England's fifth in consecutive matches against New Zealand.

# England qualified for the semifinal of ICC World Twenty20 for the first time in three attempts.

# Tim Bresnan [ Images ] won his maiden Man of the Match award.