England's players must have wished the ground would swallow them up after their capitulation to New Zealand in Wellington during the second one-day international of the series.

The most humbling aspect of their 155-run loss was their batting effort which could only muster 89 runs before being snuffed out by the Black Caps.

But at least they avoided the humiliation of recording the lowest score by an England team in limited-overs matches.

That dubious distinction goes to the side that collapsed to a paltry 86 against Australia during last summer's NatWest series against Australia.

Randall was dismissed for a duck and the others did not fare much better as England recorded a dismal score of 94 and lost by six wickets.

But even England's worst total barely scrapes into the top 20 of all-time batting flops in one-day internationals.

Pakistan top the list with a pitiful 43 against the West Indies at Cape Town in 1993.

They have also flopped to scores of 71 against the Windies side in Brisbane the same year and a pair of 74s, during the 1992 World Cup against England in Adelaide, and at the hands of the Kiwis in 1990.

And England have the last laugh over Australia, who rolled them over for their lowest ever total.

The Aussies suffered their worst ever batting collapse in a limited-overs international to finish 70 all out in Birmingham 25 years ago.