Rashid finds a little bit of turn and drift to catch the outside edge of Taylor's bat as he looks to prod to leg. It sends the ball spinning wide of slip. Having survived, Taylor rubs salt in the wound by taking a couple of steps to meet the final ball on the full and hammer a four to cow corner. Halfway and New Zealand are well set for a big score.

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

"I just wonder if there's an issue with Ross Taylor's eyes. He's not picking the ball up as quickly. He's getting a lot of pad on the ball rather than bat. And in the last ODI, he dropped a couple of outfield catches that he never would have dropped."

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Plunkett is not short of a yard or two. He rattles Taylor with a short ball that clatters into the batsman's helmet as he looks to duck out of the way.

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

"Williamson doesn't play at the same pace as the other batsmen: he crafts an innings, he charms runs out of an attack, but he will go along at almost a run a ball without you noticing. He has time and space to do that, as long as there are other batsmen around him who can explode."

50 from 52 balls for Williamson, who gets there with a pull for four off Plunkett, followed by a single. That is his 17th ODI half-century.

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Williamson has seen plenty of Rashid from their time together at Yorkshire. He spots the spinner has dropped one slightly short and swivels quickly to pull for four. You sense the Kiwis are looking to accelerate again now.

Plunkett returns but veers down leg and is flicked away for four by Taylor. He is plundered for another boundary by Williamson, who plays that dab shot with an angled bat that brought him a lot of joy during the Test series. He is like a surgeon at the crease, delicately picking apart the bowling attack. Taylor is less precise, as he demonstrates with a cut from the final ball that offers a catching chance to point Jason Roy, who can only palm the ball to the turf on the dive. Tough, but it was a chance.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Rashid has got a couple to rip, and he's getting a bit of bounce. It might be worth holding him back a bit for the tail: they don't like a bit of indecision."

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There is some turn to be found in this pitch. Shame then, that Rashid keeps chucking in the odd full bunger, thus negating it. When it pitches it is neat. Three runs from the over.

Billy Bunter 3rd: Good catch by Jordan and a couple of tight overs by Stokes. Shame Jordan can't be in slips off his own bowling!

Ian Bradley: Yet again a batsman reaches a milestone and loses concentration.

Suddenly, there is a renewed vibrancy in the England field. Players chirping, clapping and encouraging as Stokes charges in for his third over. Williamson punctures the new optimism with a cut to send a short, wide ball to the fence before hammering two further boundaries through extra-cover on the drive. Two much width, Ben lad.

Ross Taylor was the one New Zealand batsman who played Rashid well at Edgbaston. He does well to fend off the spinner as England go on the attack with a slip and leg slip. "Bowled," says Phil Tufnell in the TMS commentary box. Praise from one England spin generation to the next. Just one run from the over.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Guptill will be disappointed with that. He was looking set. He was getting into position for that Brian Lara flick-pull round the corner, but the ball from Stokes just rushed him. It's a big wicket at a good time for England."

Guptill has been largely in control for his 50 runs but after passing the milestone, he pulls out a loose stroke to pull straight to Jordan at short mid-wicket. Good pair of hands, Jordan. He's not going to drop those. Bonus for England. This New Zealand pair were looking good.

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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Guptill hits the ball hard. He picks up his gravy with ones and twos in the off side, but when he hits it, he's a big lad and he does commit to it."

New Zealand have been in consolidation mode somewhat since McCullum fell but Guptill has kept the score ticking along with a run-a-ball half-century, his 23rd in ODIs.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Rashid seems to have one poor ball an over. That's something he needs to work on. I think he's a great talent - he just gives the batsman that bit of indecision when he turns it both ways - but that's why England have been reserved in picking him."

After a drinks break on the field, during which I've also had a much-needed cup of tea delivered (yes, delivered - it's one of the perks of being in the text commentator's chair), Rashid continues. Guptill is unforgiving, though, and whacks wide of mid-on for four before smashing past the diving bowler for another boundary.