They were restricted to 69 for 7 in their second innings of 10 overs, and the Kiwi openers Phil Chandler and Mark Douglas reached the target of 96 with three overs to spare.
Derbyshire’s Phil DeFreitas provided some consolation for England, who played four matches on consecutive days since arriving in New Zealand, when he claimed 5 for 38 in the hosts’ first innings – the best figures in the game’s 18-month history.The England and Wales Cricket Board will seek the views of the touring squad following their first taste of Cricket Max, created by the former New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe to boost flagging interest in the game in his country.John Carr, the ECB director of cricket operations, said: “We will be seeking the opinions of the players and management as to whether this new form of the game can play a role in generating further interest in cricket in this country.”Nottinghamshire are confident of signing the former England opener Jason Gallian from Lancashire, after a meeting with the player in London yesterday.Gallian, about to start a two-week cricket tour of the Caribbean, has also interested Middlesex and Glamorgan, but Alan Ormrod, Nottinghamshire’s cricket manager, said: “We have made Jason a very attractive offer, and he has promised us a decision on his return from the West Indies.”Shaun Pollock took four wickets in 13 balls as South Africa earned a nine-run win over Pakistan in the second match of the quadrangular one- day tournament in Lahore yesterday.Set a target of 272 Pakistan lost three wickets for no runs in the first over.Pollock dismissed Saeed Anwar with his first ball, trapped Aamir Sohail with his fourth and Ejaz Ahmed with his fifth. She recovered and ran off another streak of three straight games to take the first set. In the second set, Novotna was up 5-4 and broke Sugiyama’s serve to take the match.The match was sloppy at times, with Novotna making 31 unforced errors and Sugiyama 47. It was the 18th career title for the 29-year-old Czech, who is second behind Martina Hingis in the world rankings.. England lost the first ever Cricket Max international series 2-1 to New Zealand after being beaten by 10 wickets in the last match in Wellington yesterday. The doubles final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow came to an abrupt end yesterday in the first set when Caroline Vis, of the Netherlands, swore at the umpire, who eliminated her and her partner, Yayuk Basuki, of Indonesia. The victory went to Arantxa Sanchez Vicario and Natasha Zvereva.

Vis was serving at 3-5 and 30-30 and, believing it a net serve, volleyed Zvereva’s return out of play. The Danish umpire, Christina Olhavsson, ruled the serve had been good Via then swore at the umpire, who eliminated the pair. Vis later apologised.
Tour officials said Vis and Basuki would receive the runner-up’s prize money, but would be fined.Sanchez Vicario and Zvereva, unwilling to let the crowd go home disappointed, brought two men out of the stands and played them for 10 minutes.In the singles final the top seed Jana Novotna beat the unseeded Ai Sugiyama 6-3, 6-4.Novotna jumped to a 3-0 lead in the first set, but then dropped three straight games. But it was a memorable enough match and given the unique cross-flow of bad blood between the rival camps, the embattled Heineken Cup board will have happily settled for a mild verbal spat rather than Le Toulzac Revisited.Brive: Tries Lamaison, Travers, Carrat; Conversions Lamaison 2; Penalties Lamaison 2. Pontypridd: Tries Spiller, James; Conversions Jenkins 2; Penalties Jenkins 2.Brive: S Viars; P Bomati, D Venditti, C Lamaison, J Carrat; A Penaud (capt), P Carbonneau; D Casadei, L Travers, R Crespy, E Alegret, Y Manhes (P Lubungu, 49), L van der Linden (L Mallier, 54), F Duboisset (R Sonnes, 50), O Magne.Pontypridd: G Wyatt; G Lewis, S Lewis (J Lewis, 67), D James, P Ford; N Jenkins (capt), P John; N Eynon, J Evans, M Griffiths (A Griffiths, 68), G Prosser, M Rowley, M Spiller, M Lloyd (G Lewis, 73), M Williams.Referee: J Fleming (Scotland)..

(All three players are under investigation in the wake of the pandemonium in Le Bar Toulzac). But John was scarcely being fair to those who did take the field Agreed, Ponty could have used McIntosh’s power. But Jonathan Evans was spectacularly effective at hooker and it is doubtful whether Barnard would have made the line-up anyway.There was a final blast of hot air from Brive, too. “We prefer to play English sides, who have greater respect for the laws of the game,” shrugged Lamaison, whose personal desire to see the back of Ponty once and for all led him to sprint full pelt from the pitch at the final whistle without waiting for a single handshake, let alone a fond au revoir or an exchange of phone numbers.A sour end to a sorry saga? Perhaps. They took it with both hands; Penaud sent a brute of a garryowen hovering over the Ponty line and when Gareth Wyatt, so impressive in many ways as a makeshift full-back, failed to gather it, Magne swept up the debris and sent Jerome Carrat on a stuttering, stop-start scuttle to the left corner.”We might have won had we been allowed to field our full side,” moaned Dennis John, the Ponty coach, in reference to the French gendarmerie banning orders denying McIntosh, Phil John and Andre Barnard access to the Correze region. The furious one- in, all-in dust-up sparked by Dale McIntosh and Lionel Mallier in the first half of the opening match between the two clubs on 14 September gave Ponty a precious foothold in the French psyche and try as they might, Brive never found a satisfactory way of fully re-establishing their mental equilibrium.Once Jenkins, who had not been granted a single sighting of the Brive posts during the opening period, cut the deficit by a third with two confident penalties on 45 and 48 minutes, the old doubts began to resurface among the Frenchmen.