FOURTH ONE-DAY INTERNATIONAL, The Oval:
New Zealand 246-9 beat England 245 by one wicket
Mark Gillespie completes the winning run, to England's despair
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New Zealand won a remarkable one-day international when England somehow allowed last man Mark Gillespie to hit two from the final ball of the match.
He scampered a single and came back for the overthrow when Graeme Swann's shy at the stumps was not backed up.
Earlier, Grant Elliott, guiding the tourists home, was controversially run out as he was injured in a collision with England's Ryan Sidebottom.
The wicket could have been crucial, but England's modest 245 was not enough.
New Zealand's victory at The Oval gave them a 2-1 lead in the series with the final match at Lord's on Saturday.
But the packed crowd had gone silent for a while soon after the strange run-out in the 44th over which gave England their eighth wicket, and a timely lift.
Elliott played a Sidebottom delivery down onto his toes, and he and non-striker Kyle Mills set off for a single.
But Elliott and Sidebottom took each other out, Ian Bell lobbed the ball to Kevin Pietersen behind the stumps, and he calmly took off the bails.
England did not retract their appeal, so umpire Mark Benson had to give Elliott, who had hit an untroubled 24, out.
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