Phil Long
BBC Test Match Special statistician

This pair have now passed fifty as a partnership on 27 occasions.

Cheers all - these two look well set to see New Zealand home. Unless they run each other out.

Kane Williamson carves Gulbadin away for four, and gets a free hit to boot as that's a no ball for not having a fielder in the circle. He only gets one from it though.

Williamson and Ross Taylor have another 50 partnership though.

Ooh that's a cracker from Rahmat Shah. He gets one to pop slightly and it just evades the outside edge of Ross Taylor who plays it well.

Tom Rostance will take you through the rest of New Zealand's reply.

It's cold at Taunton. The TV cameras have just cut to a couple in the flats wrapped up in a blanket.

The British summer, eh.

Skipper Gulbadin Naib brings himself back into the attack.

That's not a great start. It's short and Kane Williamson absolutely crunches it to the mid-wicket fence for his fourth boundary.

Only a great stop at point prevents another boundary and any further damage.

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Here's Afghanistan's Hamid Hassan catching New Zealand's Colin Munro... his eyes appear to be focused waaaaaay higher than the ball.

Still, he snared it.

Phil Long
BBC Test Match Special statistician

These two have batted together 64 times and are the second most prolific partnership in New Zealand ODI history.

They have 13 hundred partnerships betwen them - and yet they are running like this.

You might remember I said some of Hamid Hassan's fielding earlier was woeful. This was worse.

It's basically just a push into the off side from Ross Taylor but the pace bowler overruns it and goes through his outstretched hands and into the boundary.

Sigh.

Pommie Mbangwa
Former Zimbabwe fast bowler

It's more than ragged! They just don't look like they trust each other to judge when there is a single! These two fellas are the most experienced players in the side.

Judging by the way these two are running, you'd think it was the first time they've batted together...

Confusion everywhere.

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Kane Williamson has scored more ODI runs with Ross Taylor than any other partner; these two put on a century stand last time out against Bangladesh.

Four runs from the over.

There's almost overthrows from the final ball but Williamson turns them down.

Hamid Hassan will continue after drinks.

The players are taking drinks so have a watch of the two wickets that have fallen so far.

Tidy enough first over from Rahmat with an edge for four off the first delivery the only addition to the scoreboard.

The required run-rate is only three an over though, so Afghanistan really need wickets.

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After 15 overs Afghanistan were on 71-4 so there's nothing in it really in terms of runs - but that flurry of wickets stopped Afghanistan in their tracks.

New Zealand (red) have only lost two.

Rahmat Shah - who has only taken 13 wickets in 65 ODIs - is going to replace Mohammad Nabi.

Hamid Hassan replaces the captain Gulbadin.

It's watchful again from New Zealand with just three added to the total.

Kane Williamson makes his ground.

Afghanistan really should have had their man there. There was plenty of confusion between the captain and Ross Taylor but the throw from short mid-wicket is wild and Khil does well to even take it, let alone then get it back down and onto the stumps.

If he has been that is brilliant from 18-year-old wicketkeeper Ikram Ali Khil because the throw from the fielder was AWFUL.