Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

New Zealand need to understand the pitch will nibble a bit. Taskin and Rubel are quicker than we've seen in the past and they can get the ball to move. Courtney Walsh is the Bangladesh bowling coach and he's impressed with the way the bowlers have developed under his tutelage.

New Zealand: Guptill, Ronchi, Williamson, Taylor, Broom, Neesham, Anderson, Santner, Milne, Southee, Boult.

Bangladesh: Tamim, Soumya, Sabbir, Mushfiqur, Shakib, Mahmudullah, Mosaddek, Mashrafe, Taskin, Rubel, Mutafizur.

This is a magnificent bit of video - 36 years ago, cricket was declared scientifically impossible. Obviously no-one's told the fellas out there in the middle...

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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

The Kiwis have a very tall attack. It's intriguing how, in hindsight, they went straight into defensive mode against England with the ball and it didn't work.

Now, in a warm-up match before the Champions Trophy in Dublin, Bangladesh beat New Zealand by five wickets.

New Zealand - batting first - made 271-8, with 84 from Tom Latham - who hasn't played in the competition yet - and 63 from Neil Broom.

Bangaldesh, however, chased that total down in 48.2 overs with 65 from both Tamim and Sabbir, with spinner Jeetan Patel taking 2-55.

It'll be an interesting one today...

Image source, AFP

Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

New Zealand want to get a target before the pitch gets slower and behave in a capricious way. New Zealand will have learned how to bowl on this pitch after watching England on it the other day.

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson: "It looks like a good surface so hopefully we can get a good score on the board. The pitch deteriorated a little the other day and it is very dry today despite the weather which has been around. It's been an amazing tournament - we've virtually got four quarter-finals now."

Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza: "We'd like to have bowled anyway. We've brought Taskin in and hopefully he will do something with the ball for us today."

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

New Zealand are an unbalanced batting side at the moment. They depend so much on Williamson. I can see the logic of batting first, though, even if that goes slightly against the modern grain.

Kane Williamson has called correctly, again, and New Zealand will have a bat first. They're unchanged.

Mashrafe says he wanted a bowl anyway. Two changes - pace bowler Taskin Ahmed is in, as is Mosaddek.

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

The worst thing, when you don't know about times, is you want to get going. You don't want to get warmed up too early, but the players have been going for ages!

The zing bails are in place which signals that we're definitely in for some cricket. The captains are out in the middle for the toss. It's windy out there - bowl first? Or will New Zealand bat first to avoid batting last on a pitch that they didn't enjoy last time?

BBC Weather's Jake Cope: "There are a few showers in the Cardiff area first thing this morning and we might see one or two brief early interruptions to the penultimate Group A game. There will be sunny spells between the showers and as the morning goes on, sunshine will begin to dominate and the showers will ease.

"Into this evening we’ll start to see an area of cloud moving in but no more rain today – we should get a result. With light westerly winds and temperatures reaching 19ºC it should be a lovely day in the stands."

Dan Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

It's good news - the toss will take place at 11:00 and the match will take place at 11:30. I don't think we've lost any overs.

It's fair to say Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara was proud of his country last night, after they shocked India...

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

In this day and age, is there not some kind of hi-tech hairdryer which can dry out any wet patches in 10 minutes?!

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There's a full round of County Championship games today, including second-placed Essex's visit to face third-placed Surrey at Guildford. Listen to ball-by-ball coverage of every single match while reading the musings of Paul Grunill and Kalika Mehta here.

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

For Bangladesh, we've seen Tamim get the runs and for New Zealand we'e seen Williamson. Both players have impact. I think, if Bangladesh can get things to click, if they get runs on the board.

New Zealand were on top of their first group match against Australia before the rain arrived, their pace bowlers reducing Australia to 53-3 after captain Kane Williamson had made a century.

They started their chase of 311 against England well, with Williamson leading the way on 87, before a collapse saw them lose their last seven wickets in a flurry.

Bangladesh, meanwhile, put in a strong batting performance against England, but lacked impetus with the ball.

They struggled against Australia, falling to a super bit of pace bowling from Mitchell Starc, before the rain set it once again.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

There's some unusual clarity in that today's winners are likely to go through to the semi-finals IF Australia don't beat England tomorrow.

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As always, we've got Test Match Special commentary available for today's game. You can listen using the player at the top of the page.

Charles Dagnall, Scott Read and Dan Norcross will guide you through the day's proceedings, with expert summarising from Jeremy Coney, Vic Marks and Ebony Rainford-Brent.