CHESTER-LE-STREET, June 29: New Zealand eased to a seven wicket victory in the fourth One-day International of the triangular series on Tuesday. Left-arm seamer Franklin recorded one-day career-best figures of five for 42.

England batsmen played some thoughtless shots against good New Zealand bowling and crumbled to their sixth lowest one-day total in just 32.5 overs. Captain Michael Vaughan (12) was Franklin's first scalp, off a swinging delivery that hit off stump.

Paul Collingwood (2) on his home ground, chased a wide Franklin ball and edged to debutant wicket-keeper Gareth Hopkins. Andrew Strauss played an ill-judged hook off Franklin and top-edged to Oram at fine leg for eight.

Franklin then took his fourth wicket in his final over when Ian Blackwell was lbw for five to accompany his four on Sunday. Ashley Giles went next ball, edging to Hopkins, before Franklin's lbw appeal against Darren Gough on his hat trick ball was turned down.

Jacob Oram, with three for 23, had earlier started the rot when opener Marcus Trescothick tried one big shot too many and was bowled for 14 off 19 balls.

Scoreboard

ENGLAND:

M.E. Trescothick b Oram 14

M.P. Vaughan b Franklin 12

G.O. Jones b Oram 5

A.J. Strauss c Oram b Franklin 8

P.D. Collingwood c Hopkins b Franklin 2

A. McGrath c Hopkins b Oram 12

I.D. Blackwell lbw b Franklin 5

A.F. Giles c Hopkins b Franklin 0

D. Gough c Fleming b Cairns 7

S.J. Harmison not out 13

J.M. Anderson b Vettori 11

EXTRAS (LB-4, W-2, NB-6) 12

TOTAL (all out, 32.5 overs) 101

FALL OF WKTS: 1-24, 2-30, 3-37, 4-44, 5-51, 6-65, 7-65, 8-76, 9-78.

BOWLING: Oram 10-0-23-3 (3nb, 1w); Franklin 10-1-42-5 (3nb, 1w); Cairns 10-2-27-1; Styris 2-1-4-0; Vettori 0.5-0-1-1.

NEW ZEALAND:

S.P. Fleming c Gough b Harmison 31

N.J. Astle lbw b Harmison 15

H.J.H. Marshall c Giles b Harmison 5

S.B. Styris not out 23

C.D. McMillan not out 15

EXTRAS (LB-7, W-2, NB-5) 14

TOTAL (for three wkts, 17.2 overs) 103

FALL OF WKTS: 1-48, 2-57, 3-66.

DID NOT BAT: J.D.P. Oram, C.L. Cairns, G.J. Hopkins, C.Z. Harris, D.L. Vettori, J.E.C. Franklin.

BOWLING: Gough 6-0-30-0 (4nb, 1w); Harmison 7-0-38-3 (1nb); Anderson 4.2-0-28-0 (1w).

MAN-OF-THE-MATCH: James Franklin.

NEXT MATCH: England v West Indies at Headingley on Thursday. -Reuters

Standings

(Tabulate under played, won, lost, no result, bonus points, total points):

New Zealand 3 1 0 2 1 12

West Indies 2 1 0 1 1 9

England 3 0 2 1 0 3