World Twenty20 2012: big-hitting Luke Wright keeps England's hopes alive with victory over New Zealand And hit them Wright did, striking five sixes and five fours, including one off Tim Southee over cow corner that went 93 metres, the second longest so far in the tournament. He was not the only batsman to take a liking to Southee, who opened the bowling with Kyle Mills. While Mills was steadiness personified, Alex Hales got England off to their first decent start of the competition with 16 runs off Southee's opening salvo. Hales has his method, broadly to plant his front leg down the pitch, dip his knee and smear anything that is not a yorker to leg, but at least he has one, something Craig Kieswetter seems bereft of after failing again. With his captain on the warpath over losing early wickets, Kieswetter went into his shell, scoring four off 14 balls until he was bowled attempting a sweep off Daniel Vettori. The batsman's job was made easier by a terrific performance with the ball, especially from Finn, who fully deserved his three for 16, the best figures of his T20 international career. Finn bowled with pace, hostility and accuracy, a combination that saw him remove Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum, two of New Zealand's best batsmen, in his opening two overs. Guptill was beaten for pace by a yorker that had him lbw while McCullum miscued a slash, mostly out of frustration from his scoring shots being dried up, to third man. If New Zealand could not quibble about that, they had plenty of cause for complaint over Finn's regular dislodging of the bails with his back knee when he bowls. He does not mean to do it but it happens regularly enough for umpires to now call dead ball. The only trouble is, those dead balls cost Ross Taylor's team at least six runs, as one went for four, another for two while a third would have been called wide, a factor that might have been germane had Wright's knock not put things beyond doubt. The International Cricket Council have brought in the protocol for this tournament, the umpires instructed to allow the first infringement but to call all subsequent ones, by the same bowler, dead ball. "I disagree with the rule, it's a rule for one person," Taylor said later. I think it cost us eight runs and a wicket. Unless the batsmen gets out you should just carry on. It should only be a dead ball once a wicket happens. Asked if it should just be called as a no-ball, Taylor replied: "Talking to one umpire out there, that's what he thinks the rule should be."