Make that four maidens in a row for Katherine Brunt.

Clinical.

New Zealand have got to try something. Playing this way is only going to lead to wickets anyway so they've got to just try and take singles and rotate the strike to keep England thinking. It's too easy for the bowlers at the moment.

Steven Finn
Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

Down is two from 16 balls which shows the signs of someone who is struggling to find rhythm of the crease. Saying that, she should now be used to the pace of the wicket.

Sciver concedes three singles from her over.

Expensive.

Steven Finn
Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

As well as England have bowled, I feel New Zealand have played the same shot each time; just defend straight to extra cover.

Lauren Down cuts nicely as Brunt strays wide, but she can only nail it to Tammy Beaumont at point who cops one in the stomach. Bodies on the line and all that.

Katherine Brunt has now bowled three overs without conceding a run.

Maddy Green is the new batter.

This has been quality from England. Bowling in tandem, Brunt and Sciver have not strayed from their consistent line and length and that shows in the score.

Steven Finn
Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

You could feel something was going to happen from the beginning of the over.

Henry Moeran
Commentator on BBC Test Match Special

The England plan works. That's the start they wanted.

Amy Lofthouse
BBC Sport in Bristol

It's Suzie Bates' 34th birthday today. It seems astonishing to me that she's never played a Test match in her 15-year career.

It's early days but this isn't going to be easy for New Zealand. So far England have given them nothing.

But if they can survive this new ball burst, the pitch is good enough and the outfield quick enough that they can make up for being behind the run rate initially.

Another maiden from Brunt.

Steven Finn
Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

She had given up there. There wasn't even an attempt of a dive from the batter.

Nat Sciver shares the new ball.

Dot ball pressure leads to a very risky single but the batters just about make it in the end but only thanks to a wayward throw.

Lauren Down looks nervous, just poking and prodding at the ball outside off stump with minimal foot movement.

Steven Finn
Ex-England seamer on BBC Test Match Special

It's a slightly under-par total because Heather Knight and Katherine Brunt showed you can score quite quickly on this pitch once you get yourself in.

But a few early wickets would really put the cat among the pigeons.

Absolutely no errors from Brunt in that first over and she delivers a maiden.

A big swing and a miss from Lauren Down second ball has England excited. Some decent swing for Brunt straight away.

Katherine Brunt, after digging England out of a hole with the bat, is now armed with the ball.

Lauren Down and Suzie Bates opening up for New Zealand.

Erling L: 241 might be a few runs short for England, but they do have a lot of great bowlers so I think they should be able to defend this.

A useful 43 from Katherine Brunt allowed England to get to 241, but a second collapse of 5-13 at the end of the innings will frustrate them. It looks a decent pitch for batting so their score may just be below par.