Hugh in France:, external So I thought: set the alarm a bit earlier and watch some cricket before work. 1st ball = England's last. Then 30 mins of mayhem. One saving grace: no one understands, follows or reports on cricket in France. So no post-mortems. Thank you L'Equipe.

Carl Parkin in Scunthorpe: Why are England not capable of picking a team to deal with the opposition?

Everyone knows that Brendon McCullum is free scoring off balls with pace, yet our attack we put on the field has no variation. Where are the medium paced bowlers who bowl a "heavy" ball?

Peter Moores was a disaster last time he was in charge, and he is proving that he is still as bad now. Where are our free scoring batsmen who have that special ability to take the attack to the opposition? Yes that's right, we sacked him from the team because he couldn't get along with Alastair Cook and Peter Moores.

I don't blame anyone for not sticking around to witness 12 runs, but I do feel sorry for New Zealand. They will complete perhaps their finest ever ODI victory in front of a half-empty stadium.

Commentator Bryan Waddle: Crowd voting with their feet - tea break.

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Jay:, external Time for the England management to declare that this was always going to be a learning experience to prepare for the future?

Taggy Elliott:, external Why did we bother coming to this World Cup? It's boys vs men...

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"England have lost four one-day internationals by 10 wickets and seven others by 9 wickets. The fewest overs to reach a target against England is 12.2 overs (Aus 118-0 at Sydney in 2003). The fewest overs to reach any target over 100 in any ODI is 12 by South Africa v Bangladesh at Potchefstroom in 2003.

"The most expensive figures in ODIs with a minimum of two overs is 21.33 runs per over (3-0-64-0) by Ravi Rampaul WI v NZ at Queenstown 2014. So, Finn will beat that if he doesn't bowl again."

Sakriya:, external No Tests for Ireland, 10-team future World Cups, 45-minute break when the match would be over in 10. Why is common sense hard?

Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

"It's been such a one-sided contest. Someone asked me on a preview what type of match it was going to be and I thought it would be nervy. Underestimate England at your peril, they'll be some danger men in their side. I didn't realise they'd lost so much confidence with the bat until I saw them today."

Right then. If you're just waking up... firstly, what you doing up at this time? Secondly, you have missed a seriously good display from New Zealand. There are no adjectives suitable to sum up England.

England collapsed from 104-3 to 123 all out in the face of some fine fast bowling from Tim Southee who took 7-33. His secret? He bowled full, fast and found some devastating late swing. Joe Root top-scored with 46.

New Zealand then blitzed England. Brendon McCullum smashed the fastest World Cup fifty on his way to 77 off 25 balls. New Zealand are 12 runs from a famous victory.

New Zealand 112-1 (9 overs) - target 124

Batsmen: Guptill 22*, Williamson 4*

Fall of wickets: 105-1 (McCullum 77)

Bowling figures: Anderson 5-0-37-0, Broad 1-0-18-0, Finn 2-0-49-0, Woakes 1-0-4-1

England 123 (33.2): Root 46, Southee 7-33

England won toss

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Leon Redding:, external I'm done for the night, can't listen to us getting crushed any longer! Thanks Geoffrey Boycott for making it worth listening to

Nick Wall:, external That was worth setting the alarm for. Ironically received email from Oval this week. £90 for 1 day intl. ticket.

Martin Niro:, external That's what is so disheartening - England can't even hit one boundary and McCullum just hits millions of them in his first over...

The crowd booed when the players trooped off for that break. The umpires are sticking to the rules, but what's the point? It's wasting everyone's time - the players, fans and officials.

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So, England have 45 minutes to sit awkwardly alongside each other. Eyes to the floor, heads in hands and defended by silence.

It's perhaps a small victory for James Anderson that he's not been hit out of the attack. His economy rate of 7.4 is 17 runs lower than Finn's and almost 11 lower than Broad's. Just three from the over. And New Zealand walk off for lunch with just 12 needed to win. Where is the common sense?

Surrey and England bowler Chris Tremlett on Twitter:, external This is painful to watch

A bit less brutal, but the end result is the same. Kane Williamson walks to the crease and straight-drives Chris Woakes for four. The technically-correct Williamson has more than 6,000 international runs at the age of 24. He's good.

Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Just carnage. Carnage. What would be the score if you batted the 50 overs at this rate? 800?"

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"What an innings. He scored 77 from 25 balls. He hit eight fours and seven sixes. It's the fastest 50 in World Cup history. It's an innings that nobody here will ever forget. There's nothing else left to say about it."

We can still do this, folks!

It's so painful we have to resort to such dark humour as Brendon McCullum marches off having been bowled by a slow full toss. The damage has been done though: 77 runs, 25 balls, eight fours, seven sixes.

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