WELLINGTON: England named an unchanged team for the second and final Test against New Zealand in Wellington starting on Friday, after captain Ben Stokes said they had played “the perfect game” to go 1-0 up in the series. The tourists dominated the first Test in Mount Maunganui to win by 267 runs with 40-year-old fast bowler James Anderson claiming seven wickets. “It is a fine line between picking your strongest 11 but then also making sure your bowlers are a hundred percent ready,” Stokes said. “I think we played near enough the perfect game, considering it was a day-night Test match.”A draw or win in Wellington would subject New Zealand to their first home series defeat in six years. “England, strategically, played it beautifully last week and we had a couple of tough sessions under lights.
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