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Sun Feb 25 (50 ovs) 14:00 local (01:00 GMT)
1st ODI - New Zealand v England
Seddon Park, Hamilton

Wed Feb 28 (50 ovs) 14:00 local (01:00 GMT)
2nd ODI - New Zealand v England
Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui

Sat Mar 3 (50 ovs) 14:00 local (01:00 GMT)
3rd ODI - New Zealand v England
Westpac Stadium, Wellington

Wed Mar 7 (50 ovs) 11:00 local (22:00 GMT -1d)
4th ODI - New Zealand v England
University Oval, Dunedin

Sat Mar 10 (50 ovs) 11:00 local (22:00 GMT -1d)
5th ODI - New Zealand v England
Hagley Oval, Christchurch

Looking forward to this series, should be very intresting..Pressure on Rashid and Hales to justify the 'white ball specalist' tag they have created for themselves

For NZ.

Kane Williamson (capt), Todd Astle, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham (wk), Colin Munro, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor

And for England:
Bairstow/Hales
Roy
Root
Morgan
Buttler
Stokes/Billings
Moeen
Woakes
Curran/Overton
Rashid
Wood/Willey

Wood still seems to be in the squad even having been injured (again).

According to Paul Newman from The Daily Mail , Stokes is virtually certain to play in the opening game and Hales is favourite to miss out. That'd be rather unfortunate given Hales' decision to concentrate exclusively on white ball cricket.

I can't keep up with Wood's various injuries but I think he is fit and was just left out of the latter matches in the tri-series. Although I might be wrong - it's never a surprise to find out he's injured!

captaincolly wrote:According to Paul Newman from The Daily Mail , Stokes is virtually certain to play in the opening game and Hales is favourite to miss out. That'd be rather unfortunate given Hales' decision to concentrate exclusively on white ball cricket.

I can't keep up with Wood's various injuries but I think he is fit and was just left out of the latter matches in the tri-series. Although I might be wrong - it's never a surprise to find out he's injured!

We're never likely to know when he's injured because it's kept quiet whenever he is. I assumed he was injured then read he was dropped because he didn't have enough variations in his bowling for IT20.

Stokes in and Hales out.

No Wood and Plunkett injured so Willey and Curran get a game.

Boult gets Bairstow early doors. And slow going thereafter. Going to need plenty of runs on NZ ground.

Actually Honest Joe has started off quickly.

Crafty side the Kiwis though.

Low score for Stokes on his return to the side and his country of birth.

Plenty of batting to come, but England need a partnership about now.

Three quick sixes for Buttler. No desire for consolidation with this England side.

Root goes. game is well balanced here. England could still reach 300+ but be squeezed out for 220. I'd guess either of these will happen, rather than England pragmatically settling for a score somewhere between the two.

Looking at the card, it feels like Buttler didn't really get going even though batting for a while. Maybe a sluggish pitch?

285-8. The intermediate score I was suggesting they wouldn't go for.

Looks a tight game with NZ needing 70 off 8.2 with five wickets in hand.

Good effort from Roscoe.

Stokes get CDG in the battle of the allrounders. Big wicket in the game.

Looks like Santner and Southee are going to do it. 10 needed off seven balls.