So clean you could floss your teeth with it.

Martin Guptill's leg stump does a double flip as a full inswinger from David Willey beats the inside edge and rattles the timbers.

Beautiful ball and Guptill had been softened up for it by a couple of shorter deliveries to start. Willey paid the price, shipping runs, but got top value.

Players back out on the field.

David Willey has the ball in his paw. Martin Guptill is down the opposite end with Brendon McCullum on backing vocals at the non-striker's end.

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Some good news for England quick Mark Wood. His appearances for England in all three forms of the game have earned the Durham fast bowler an increment contract.

Image source, Frank Keogh

BBC Sport's Francis Keogh:, external This is what you *could* wear at the #T20. One pound your hammers".

Just don't going knocking in any real nails with them...

England batsman Joe Root speaking to Sky Sports: "I thought the way we played throughout, even though we lost wickets in clusters, we've given ourselves a really good chance. Who knows what a good score is now? Guys are just whacking it out of the park. They might knock these off in 15 overs!

"We're going to have to be quite smart but we have the talent in this dressing-room to bowl them out or keep them below our score."

Football Fragmento:, external England finish on 191-7 in the t20 international. NZ will have a good go at that. Should be a good chase.

Ed Fondue:, external Unless England take regular wickets that total looks about 20-30 runs light.

Stephen:, external Can we ban fist/glove thumping every ball and over between batsmen please?

Jonathan Trott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"I haven't always been the biggest fan of Old Trafford but the changes they have made, they have done a great job."

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"Brilliant from England. They came out strong, then New Zealand did really, well, slowed it down. I sense 191 is very competitive. But England are going to have bowl smart."

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Ben Stokes drops to his knees, reaches wide and wallop clean through extra over for a four on the first ball of Matt Henry's over.

Kane Williamson gets down tremendously at backward point to stop one heading to the rope as well.

Rashid on strike. A lovely glance though short long leg for four, then a single. Stokes back on strike.

Dug in short, heading wide but the umpire rules it a legal delivery. To much disagreement from the stands. And the crease.

Stokes whips away another bouncer for a four.

All done on 191. Par? I reckon about so. Very delicately poised.

Adil Rashid is the new man in and he does some decent shuttle running to turn, scamper and get partner Ben Stokes back on strike for the final over.

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Adrenaline coursing around the system after that majestic six in the last over, David Willey goes chasing a slower ball, puts up a sky-scraper of a catch which Mitchell Santner claims out of the lesser-seen Mancunian sun.

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Marko Koning:, external Four-day, Test, ODI and T20. Joe Root is superb in all forms. I think it's time for a Timeless Test.

David Willey gets off the mark in style, leaning back into a short-a-length ball and getting the spectators cowering in the stand over midwicket.

Two more overs for England to make this total a stretch for the Kiwis.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"I just sense with Root not quite doing a job, he would have liked to take it to the 19th over."

It was lovely while it lasted.

Joe Root's innings of improvisation and inspiration is all done and he mistimes one that got up around his shoulders from Mitchell McClenaghan and holed out to Martin Guptill at deep cover.

Former Australia international Tom Moody:, external This @joeroot05 is a serious player, a superstar in all 3 formats of the game.

Dreamy from Joe Root. It was almost casual as he switched stance and played what, a reverse-paddle? I'm not sure there is a definite name for that shot. It certainly isn't in any 20th century coaching manual.

It does the job perfectly though, flicking the ball over short long leg and bounding away for four.

Worth the ticket price alone.

Ebony Rainford-Brent
Ex-England batter on BBC Test Match Special

"I think England need to get up to the 185 mark. It is a good pitch and some of the Kiwi batsman are in form."

Joe Root tops off the over with a single and Tim Southee takes the bowling slot of the beleaguered Nathan McCullum.

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Sam Billings fails to spot that pesky slower ball bouncer from Mitchell McClenaghan and paddles a steepling but simple catch up to wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi.

The quality keeps coming for England though. Ben Stokes is next out of the hutch.