CRICKET/SECOND TEST:RYAN SIDEBOTTOM provided the finishing touches as England wrapped up a quickfire innings victory over New Zealand at Trent Bridge.

Nottinghamshire seamer Sidebottom sealed an innings-and-nine-run victory before lunch on the fourth day to complete a 2-0 series triumph.

Resuming in ideal batting conditions trailing by 64 runs on 177 for five, New Zealand would have hoped to at least avoid the humiliation of suffering an innings defeat.

But Sidebottom's skilful approach ended the match in only 12.3 overs after he claimed four wickets in 19 balls to finish with six for 67 as the tourists capitulated by losing their last five wickets in 40 balls to be dismissed for 232.

The outcome was all but settled inside the first half hour with Sidebottom dismissing overnight batsman Gareth Hopkins and dangerous New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori in successive overs.

Hopkins, introduced as wicketkeeper following Brendon McCullum's slight back strain, had battled for more than an hour for his 12. But after being beaten outside off-stump several times in the same over, Hopkins finally found the edge behind to wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose and earned Sidebottom the first breakthrough.

Sidebottom struck again in his next over to dismiss Vettori with a lazy push straight to gully.

By now all-rounder Jacob Oram had taken a view that New Zealand were only going to make England bat again by playing his shots and signalled his intentions by launching Stuart Broad from outside off-stump over the mid-wicket boundary for six.

He hit successive fours in Broad's next over, prompting captain Michael Vaughan to remove him from the attack after his five-over spell had cost 31 runs.

Oram's attacking strokeplay entertained a healthy crowd, but Sidebottom's continued success from the Pavilion End always threatened to ensure he would run out of partners. Kyle Mills was dismissed four overs after Vettori for also hanging his bat outside off-stump and edging to man-of-the-series Andrew Strauss at first slip and three balls later Iain O'Brien was caught at second slip by Paul Collingwood.

Oram hit a six over long-on off Anderson and a single off the next ball brought up his half-century from only 39 balls. But that single exposed last man Chris Martin, notoriously the worst number 11 in Test cricket, who lasted only two balls before also edging to Collingwood at second slip after little more than an hour's play.