England v New Zealand LIVE: Result and reaction from Cricket World Cup 2023 opener as Kiwis win by nine wickets

Conway is getting well forward to Rashid and playing far outside the line of off stump. He does manage to get the single however and moves to 99...

Wood will bowl his fourth over here, with England still on the hunt for their second wicket, a situation they were in when he was first brought into the attack inside the first powerplay.

Conway hits one just over midwicket for four, a bit high on the bat but Curran is not the tallest and it was just too high for him, a sort of half chance for England, but the first they’ve had for a while.

England have had no answer to the power and skill of the New Zealand batters. Ravindra drops low and sweeps Rashid away for a single.

Just two runs come from the over.

Chris Woakes decides the time is right to come around the wicket at Rachin Ravindra. The New Zealand No. 3 attempts to pull him away and toes the ball straight back to the bowler along the floor.

Six! Ravindra reads a slower ball from Woakes and nails a lofted drive over the bowler’s head for a maximum. That’s a world class shot.

Woakes responds with a dot ball before Ravindra cuts him away for one to Mark Wood at deep third man. There are two balls left for Conway to play out and he only collects one run.

The win predictor gives England a 9% chance of turning this match around from this position. They need wickets, nothing else will save them.

Conway slices Rashid away to deep point for one before Liam Livingstone saves a couple of runs with a full length stop on the deep midwicket boundary.

Rashid hasn’t been able to assert any control on proceedings. He’s milked away for six more runs with just one dot ball in the over.

New Zealand are in full flow. Things look very bleak for England as Chris Woakes continues for his fifth over. Rachin Ravindra turns a decent length ball into the legside for one before Devon Conway pulls a shortish ball to the boundary fielder for another single.

The batters proceed to rotate the strike before Conway smokes a wonderful drive straight down the ground for four runs bringing up the 150 partnership!

Another single finishes off the over with New Zealand needing a further 121 runs to win this match.

Rashid is back for his fourth over, and England will hoping the two from the last over has just started building the smallest amount of pressure.

The first five balls of the over went for just three, but all that has been released when Conway has absolutely smashed that into the stands.

Woakes will have another chance to redeem himself after three expensive overs at the start of the innings - including 10 off the first one - that caused an early change of plans.

That was Woakes’ best over of the lot, just the two runs from it.

Now it’s time to see if that brief pause and drinks break has had an impact. Ben Stokes having a word with some of the players and offering his advice to Buttler, after he was not passed fit enough to play ahead of the game.

Ravindra’s 67 includes eight fours and 3 sixes so far.

That was a better over from Ali, and England have appealed a half-appeal for lbw from the off-spinner.

That was a hint of desperation to try and make something happen, it was absolutely nowhere near the stumps and pitching outside off, and an even more worrying sign for those supporting the team in blue.

Another boundary first ball of the over, this time off Rashid, and England need this drinks break to try and drag themselves back into this game, as New Zealand have done everything right so far and Buttler’s side look short of answers.