McMillan set the Kiwis up for victory

Nick Knight played on to Adams and Graham Thorpe was unlucky to be given lbw to the same bowler, after getting a thick inside edge onto his pads.

England lost all hope of victory when Paul Collingwood miscued a Nathan Astle delivery to mid-off to leave the score on 35-5.

The procession continued when Owais Shah steered Chris Cairns to gulley and Chris Harris celebrated his 200th one-day international with the wickets of Craig White and Ashley Giles.

Andrew Flintoff was the only batsman to make any impression with 26, including one huge six, but fell trying to repeat the dose on Astle, who then bowled Darren Gough for figures of 3-4.

New Zealand were indebted to a composed 69 from Craig McMillan during their innings.

England started well after Hussain won the toss and elected to field, but let the game drift away with shoddy fielding.

Gough trapped Astle lbw and then took a catch off his own bowling to dismiss Chris Nevin and Flintoff claimed the wicket of Brendon McCullum.

Fleming repaired the damage by scoring 40 before whipping Matthew Hoggard to square leg where Shah took a sharp catch around his ankles.

Foster made way for Trescothick behind the stumps

He shared in a patient 58-run partnership with McMillan to give New Zealand a platform from which to build a substantial innings.

McMillan and Lou Vincent then put on 84 crucial runs before McMillan chipped White to Flintoff at backward square leg.

Flintoff followed that up by bowling Lou Vincent for 36 and taking a catch at long-off as Cairns tried to hit White for a second successive six.

Gough claimed his third wicket when Knight, who had dropped two previous catches, held on to one to dismiss Harris at the death.

England were left to rue three dropped catches as New Zealand's batsmen profited from fielding errors.

Wicketkeeper James Foster and pace bowler Andrew Caddick were dropped by England with Shah and Hoggard coming in, and Trescothick took up the gloves.

New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (capt), Nathan Astle, Chris Nevin, Lou Vincent, Craig McMillan, Brendon McCullum, Chris Cairns, Chris Harris, Daniel Vettori, Daryl Tuffey, Andre Adams.

England: Nasser Hussain (capt), Marcus Trescothick, Nick Knight, Graham Thorpe, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Craig White, Ashley Giles, Darren Gough, Matthew Hoggard.