Wheeler is getting a taste of how tough life is for a seam bowler in modern one-day cricket. Hales fetches one from outside off to smash another boundary and then almost repeats the trick but finding the man at deep square.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"To redress the balance and give something back to the bowlers, I'd have only one white ball so that it reverses and doesn't stay as hard. But, does anybody care? Don't we want to see loads of runs? In ODI cricket, the bat should have an advantage, maybe 60-40."

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Hales is warming up to the task now. Southee veers a little short and wide and the opener is on it with a cut for four. Roy ends the over with a dance down, a swing and a miss. Very McCullum like. If he'd connected the ball wouldn't have landed until next week.

Rob in London: I've got a question from the other day, why are wickets taken into account in Duckworth-Lewis? Normally it makes no difference if you're 1 down or 9 down, it's just how many runs you get. Average run rate would be simpler and fairer.

Oh, Wheeler is inches away from his first ODI wicket as he dips a slower ball between the pad and bat of Roy and misses off stump by a whisker. It is a belter of a ball, but Wheeler is unable to follow it up as his inconsistency continues to allow Hales to flick off his legs for four.

Hales has been a bit tentative so far but he gets off the mark with a well-timed drive through mid-off for four. The opener hit nine boundaries in his 54 at the Oval. That's his game.

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A surprise name in the Black Cats side today is Ben Wheeler, making his international debut. The 23-year-old left-arm medium-fast seamer was born in Blenheim and plays his domestic cricket for Central Districts.

Wheeler was one of a handful of stand-by players who bolstered the New Zealand side at the start of this tour when some of NZ's superstars were at the Indian Premier League, and he took 5-18 against Somerset. When quick bowler Adam Milne was ruled out of the ODI series with injury, Wheeler was named as his replacement.

Stats-wise, he has 92 first-class wickets at an average of 27, but has only played seven List A limited-overs games, taking seven wickets at 49.28.

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We get an early look at Ben Wheeler, who starts his ODI career with a wide down leg, but finds a slightly better line after, using his natural left-arm advantage to angle the ball across Hales. The batsman misses out with a couple of wide offerings outside off. Very much a mixed first bag from the Kiwi debutant.

Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"There's a tinge of grass on this pitch, perhaps the New Zealand bowlers will get some movement early on."

Welcome to the game, Jason Roy. Tim Southee's first pitches straight and nips away past the opener's outside edge. Brendon McCullum said he wanted to bowl first. That's an indication why. Roy hits back, though, literally, with a cut through point for two and then a flick to leg that brings him and his side their first boundary.

Charles Gordon: Never been this excited about England in an ODI series before. The side batting first will crash and burn on occasions though.

The New Zealand team are huddling the hell out of each other as the England batsmen make their way down the steps. Jerusalem rings out around the Ageas Bowl. Here we go people, strap yourselves in...

Thomas Measures: The sky commentator is Holding and the bowler is Willey moment in this ODI?

Ooooh maiden. This could all get very Carry on Cricket.

BBC Weather's Ben Rich on TMS: "There's going to be quite a lot of cloud around, I wouldn't rule out the odd spot of drizzle first thing but that should fade away. It'll stay pretty cloudy and things might be a bit gloomy towards the end, but I don't foresee any major interruptions."

Isa Guha
Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

"If both teams come out with the same intent as they have done, we can expect a big score. It's a flat wicket and there's runs to be had. A lot of people will be questioning why England didn't play like this at the World Cup. It's purely a question of mindset."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

"Here's Phil Tufnell and Henry Blofeld snuggled up on the TMS bed in our new commentary box."

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Totum: The England "Transformers" cricket team - dull saloon cars & delivery lorries we thought but, no, swashbuckling heroic robots.

Cricketers in disguise. During the World Cup, it was a very good disguise.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

"Hotel room comm box for Eng v NZ at Ageas Bowl."

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So potential innuendo pair Willey and Wood are in. What would Brian Johnston have made of that in the TMS box?

Will they fare better than some of the other England seamers did at the Oval? Poor Chris Jordan absolutely fetched it on Friday. It is not just his side that was injured, but his pride as well.

We've seen a bit of Wood in the Test series but Willey only had a handful of overs in the abandoned game against Ireland in May.

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New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum: "I wanted to bowl. We're playing four seamers and it's a 10.30 start. It's a huge blow to be without Trent Boult, it's tough for him to be struck-down with injury. The last two surfaces have been outstanding cricket wickets, but this may be a different proposition. Hopefully it will swing around a bit."