By Jonathan Agnew BBC cricket correspondent

The bad weather at Headingley was a total frustration to everybody - apart from New Zealand's cricketers.

Fleming will be happier with the weather-hit first day than Vaughan

Of course, they will be disappointed that some time was lost as they need to win the game to level the series.

But to have been put in to bat in awkward conditions and lose just one wicket means they can return on Friday and prosper in what we are promised will be dry and warm weather.

This will certainly have been on Michael Vaughan's mind when he won the toss - weather forecasts are so accurate these days that he will have known he would be lucky to bowl twenty overs in the day.

But he had to take the chance on his seam bowlers nipping out three or four wickets.

In fact, the ball barely moved off the straight when Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison opened the attack.

Vaughan switched his bowlers about. Flintoff replaced Hoggard after just three overs, and then brought the Yorkshireman back two overs later.

Saggers now has a wonderful opportunity to cement a permanent place

Harmison found some steepling bounce, but did not bowl straight enough, and it was only when Vaughan finally threw the ball to Martin Saggers that we saw the movement we had expected from the start.

Saggers' first delivery was full, swung into the left-handed Richardson, and the opener missed a drive and was bowled middle stump for 13.

It was a wonderful moment for Saggers, whose cause virtually everyone on the county circuit has been championing for several seasons.

He is an honest and old-fashioned English swing bowler, tailor-made for overcast conditions.

In his brief spell of two overs, he showed the value of bowling a foot fuller than Hoggard at the other end.

With Simon Jones ruled out for at least this and the following Test at Trent Bridge, Saggers - who was only called up because of an injury to James Anderson - now has a wonderful opportunity to cement a permanent place.