I didn't think Roy would let too many more pass through to the keeper and he has a dart at a wide one from Boult, which may have been a slower ball. It loops off the edge but short of third man.

Root also chases a wide one and the thick edge brushes past the outstretched fingers of Martin Guptill at second slip. A beautifully authentic punch off the back foot for four more follows and already Root has 13.

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Michael Creedon: Nonsense that Hales ain't playing.

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A moment of fortune for Roy with an inside edge past the stumps for four, but he adheres to Graeme Swann's philosophy by scampering a quick single. Root plays the shot of the day so far with a sumptuous turn of the wrists to dispatch the fourth four of the innings.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

New Zealand will want England to go hard at the ball, try to hit boundaries. Joe Root, though, will look to work singles and perhaps Jason Roy needs to add that to his repertoire as well as the big hits. With the ball not coming on, you need to take a lot of singles. It can't be about hitting boundaries because you will get bogged down. It won't be a 400-run pitch, I'll tell you that much.

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Two slips in place as Root faces his first delivery from Boult and the Test captain is away second ball with a turn off his pads for a single. After the razzamataz of the T20 game, there is a delightful calm about the early stages, like Arundel in April.

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Having flicked his first boundary in the previous over, there is that rarity from Roy, the leave, and he's actually content to let successive Southee deliveries pass through to the wicketkeeper. They can't be accused of recklessly going at it so far.

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Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

A few guys in the New Zealand gave Tim Southee a high five after that wicket because he played his part by building the pressure at the other end.

It's not a driving wicket at all, there's no real pace. It's more an old-fashioned pitch and not what England have faced in Australia. The one English batsman who will enjoy this pitch is Joe Root and he is striding to the crease.

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Simon Fisher: Just got in following a 10hr shift!! Looking forward to another successful one-day series!! #throughthenight, external.

After so much T20 in recent weeks it's something of a novelty to see the shouldering of arms and the ball allowed to go through to the wicketkeeper as Southee concedes just the single..

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

The wicket will turn here but the boundaries are so short. I can remember playing here and just seeing the ball flying into the trees. England bowled beautifully here in the T20 and need to repeat that.

Left-arm paceman Trent Boult shares the new ball and it looks like a slow surface, Bairstow with plenty of time to rock back and help it backward of square for the first boundary.

The orange vests are out in force again, as they were for the T20's. If you're wearing one and take a catch one-handed in the crowd you win 50,000 New Zealand bucks.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

England didn't have a plan in the T20s - if it all went wrong and they lost a few wickets. There was nobody there who could hold it together. But England have Joe Root back in the side now.

Southee's face is smeared in sun cream, not quite the joker but his lower lip is white. An accurate first over with one slip in place, which Roy is content to play out watchfully.

Plenty of England fans in attendance and a couple of well-refreshed grey-bearded gentlemen are singing with gusto.

England are back in the navy blue kit with the red flash on the shirts. Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow stride out to the centre and it will be Tim Southee to open the bowling.

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There is something about the clarity of the colours of the grounds in New Zealand - the outfields are always a magnificent emerald green and I am very impressed with the invention of the mowing in that tartan pattern. They're not allowed to do it in football now as Fifa insists on uniformity, so it's nice to see in cricket.

There is plenty of Scottish connection with New Zealand, but I know some of you will still be trying to forget the rugby so we had better move on.

This is the 33rd ODI at Seddon Park since 1981 and the highest score in the 350 made New Zealand made to beat Australia in 2007.

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Sally M: It’s coming up to 8pm, I’ve been at a three-hour beer fest in the ‘great state of New York’ and I’m ready for food and cricket!

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Ex-England batsman on Test Match Special

Is is great to see Ben Stokes. England fans want to see the best players and he is one of if not the best all-rounder. He won't bowl his full quota of overs but England have so many options. It's just great to have him back in the side.

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