Hales, Lumb stars as England thrash New Zealand by 10 wickets and won the series 2-1

Alex Hales showed  a brilliant batting  as England command  New Zealand with both bat and ball to compete to a 10 wickets victory  in the three match Twenty20  series  in Wellington on Friday.

The  heavy defeat  in the second game  in Hamilton on Tuesday, England fight  back to control  New Zealand to 139 for 8  after sending the hosts  side  into bat, with Stuart Broad and Jade Dernbach claimed  three wickets each. Hales and Michael Lumb then dismantled the New Zealand bowling  attack to finished the 140 runs chase in just 12.4 overs .

Alex Hales made  80 from  42 deliveries with  four sixes and nine fours, while Michael Lumb smashed  53 off 34 balls, sending the ball onto the roof of Westpac Stadium to brought up  the winning runs with his fifth maximum.

Opener Martin Guptill (59) top scorer  for New Zealand but the New Zealand. He scored  59 off 55 deliveries  and looked aggressive in the latter stages of the innings before Broad removed  him for his third wicket. New Zealand will now seem to rearrange themselves  before the first ODI  in Hamilton on Sunday.

Alex Hales storms guide Melbourne Renegades beat Sixers

England  opener Alex Hales finished the Sydney Sixers' Big Bash League title defence in stunning style as the table topping Melbourne Renegades sounded an gloomy warning ahead of the finals.

Alex Hales, signed as injured Jamaican Marlon Samuels' alternate on Tuesday, smashed  89 from 52 deliveried,  hitting  eight sixes to lift the  Melbourne Renegades to a total of 5 for 178 and a 29 run win. The show came less than 12 hours after he completed the exacting journey from London to Sydney, but the 24-year-old showed no signs of jetlag in   easy win.

After a sluggish start by the visitors, who opted to bat first, Alex Hales twisted the match  on its head when he single handedly plundered 22 runs from Josh Hazlewood in the 5th  over. Ales Hales take  a particular liking to the spin of Steve O'Keefe (0 from 50 from 3 overs), smacking four sixes off one over with  a punishing blow over long on that travelled 111m and landed on the roof of the Members' Pavilion.

Ben Rohrer  made 57 runs, stand in Renegades skipper in the absence of Aaron Finch  shared a 112 runs partnership with Hales and was in awe of the young gun who was in India three weeks ago with England's national T20 side. Alex Hales' knock was the 2nd  best of the tournament, with Aaron Finch's unbeaten 111 in the season opener the only improved effort.

The first difficulty always looked insurmountable, and so it proved as the Melbourne Renegades made it seven wins off its  eight matches and rolled the Sydney Sixers for 149 runs  with the final ball  of the match. O'Keefe,  top scored for the Sydney Sixers with 41 runs, exacted a small degree of revenge with the bat when he pulled a short ball to Hales in the deep that the Englishman lost in the lights.