Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

Dom Sibley will have been unhappy with how he was dismissed in the second warm-up game - playing away from his body. But the confidence of getting a century in the first game will do him the world of good.

I'm flagging. Send help. Or caffeine.

Rory Burns works a tidy single through gully before Dom Sibley does a bit of tidying up and moves a tiny leaf off the pitch. This is a tidy start from England.

Give me this sort of patience and graft over England being 40-4 any day of the week.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

It's a nice efficient clip. It's the same shot that got him off the mark and it breaks the sequence of maidens. This pair won't be bothered about the maidens I don't think, it's about getting through this period.

Shot!

Overpitched from Tim Southee, an attempted yorker gone wrong, and with a flick of the wrists, Dom Sibley sends it flying through mid-wicket for four.

Steven Finn
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

That's just like a good night out, surely?

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent

These aren't bad listening hours are they really? All you've got to do is stay up till 5am, go to work and then do the same again. We're not asking too much of you really.

Benji: Doesn’t matter how small that edge is, he’s nicked it.

There is still a bit of swing for Trent Boult but it's nothing extravagant, and Rory Burns is watchful outside his off stump, before he brings his bat down on one that shapes back into him.

Ah, there it is! Boult ends the over with another stonker that just threatens to tickle the outside edge of Burns' bat. Maiden. Cagey.

Ben Gardiner: After the helter skelter of the openers in the summer, I’m loving these leaves outside the off stump from Sibley. Feels like a proper first session of Test cricket!

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We've seen the replay of that caught behind shout a couple of times now. I'm just not sure the evidence was conclusive enough to overturn it.

Tim Southee keeps things tight with a maiden.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent

Controversially, looking to the right you do have to blot out what's happening slightly with the smoke rising from the brewery, it does ruin the picture a bit.

Well then.

Hot Spot suggests there was the tiny of tiniest edges on that ball. There's just a tiny dot showing up on the edge of the bat.

I'd have been amazed if that had been given out if it had gone upstairs.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent

There was nothing from Trent Boult, but the keeper and all the slips went up, that's significant. That was the best ball we've seen in the opening 20 minutes though.

This series isn't part of the World Test Championship but the players still have the numbers on the back of their whites, which I much prefer.

Oh, that's the first real false shot from Rory Burns! He gets squared up by Trent Boult, no foot movement as he prods forward, and there's the tiniest of noises. BJ Watling goes up, Boult makes more of polite enquiry, but they opt against the review...

Who else could bring you this type of stat this quickly?

Steven Finn
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

New Zealand are typically a very attacking team with the new ball so to see them with a deep square leg in the fourth over is unusual.

I've run out of coffee, which doesn't bode well.

It's such a peaceful ground that the fielders' shouts of encouragement seem almost too loud, disrupting the quiet. Dom Sibley gets himself in line and leaves alone anything he doesn't need to touch, and Tim Southee rattles through a maiden in response.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

It's the 120th Test venue and the ninth in New Zealand.

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Make that back-to-back boundaries, as Trent Boult gets his line all wrong and Rory Burns flicks this delivery off his leg stump and away through mid-wicket for four.

Lovely.