England vs New Zealand, World Cup 2023 highlights: Conway and Ravindra slam centuries as Kiwis crush ENG in opener

England vs New Zealand Live Score: EDGED AND GONE! Matt Henry gets the first wicket of this World Cup and it is Dawid Malan. Just a touch fuller than good length on off, Malan flashes his bat at it and edges it to wicketkeeper Latham.

Malan c Latham b Henry 14 (24), England 40/1 in 7.4 overs

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Henry goes full to Bairstow, possibly to tempt him to go aerial. He take the bait and puts it over the cover fielder despite the ball coming out out of the toe end of the bat. Henry keeps it full for the next ball, this time Bairstow plays it past backward point.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Bairstow is on 12 off 10 so he hasn't been able to do much since that first over. Malan is on nine off 14.

England vs New Zealand Live Score:… and Malan punishes him. Matt Henry has been brilliant at consistently hitting that Test match length which is why he wsa yet to concede a single run. But he goes a little full outside offf for the third and Malan clatters him through covers.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Henry started off with a maiden from the other end and then just four from Boult's second over. New Zealand have made a pretty good comeback after leaking 12 runs in that first over.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Bairstow is on 11 off five after that over, Malan has one off one.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: What a first over this is for England and there is still a delivery left in it. Full from Boult for the fifth ball of the first, Bairstow puts it away with a lovely on drive. Conway gave chase but his knee gets stuck into the ground when he goes for the slide. Always a sickening situation that, Conway takes his time to get back up but seems allright.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: 2023 World Cup, welcome to this England ODI squad. Boult swung the first delivery into Bairstow, the second one is a half volley down the leg side. Bairstow flicks it away over long leg.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Dawid Malan and Jonny Bairstow open the batting for England. Trent Boult has the new ball in his hands. Lots and lots of empty seats in the stadium, which is not the greatest look of course to open up a tournament. But we can still see a lot of people walking towards their seats and well, this is a stadium that can seat over 1 lakh people. It means that a scattering of crowd in this venue might be a full house in your average 30k seater. Theories and theories but the only fact we know is this - Boult bowling to Bairstow for the first ball of the 2023 World Cup. Here we go!

England vs New Zealand Live Score: New Zealand's ‘God Defend New Zealand’ comes first and then England/United Kingdom's ‘God Save the King’.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: He had to wait six editions to lift that trophy and complete cricket just as how Lionel Messi did with football last year in Qatar. He has walked out and joined his old teammate Javagal Srinath, who is match referee.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: What do Virat Kohli, Steve Smith, Joe Root and Kane Williamson have in common? Quite a lot really, starting with the fact that they are four of the greatest batters the game has ever seen. However, there is one thing that the first three have experienced and the fourth didn't. Kohli, Smith and Root won the World Cup in 2011, 2015 and 2019 respectively but Williamson was within touching distance of lifting the trophy as captain in 2019. The Kiwis are a gentle lot, and Williamson is probably the most gentle of them all, but there just has to be, has to be, a fire burning in his belly to lay his hands on that trophy.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w/c), Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Matt Henry, Mitchell Santner, James Neesham, Trent Boult

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Jonny Bairstow, Dawid Malan, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Jos Buttler(w/c), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid, Mark Wood

England vs New Zealand Live Score: “Would've bowled first as well. Looks a really good wicket. Preparation has been okay. Had a good series against NZ at home. Very proud of the achievement four years ago. Ben's going to miss this game. Has a niggle with his hip. Guys missing out are Atkinson, Topley, Willey and Stokes.”

England vs New Zealand Live Score: “Going to have a bowl. Looks a reasonably good surface. Hopefully later on it gets better to bat. Preparation has been great. Guys came together from different parts of the world a week ago. Unfortunately Kane's not quite ready yet. Ferguson has got a bit of a niggle. Sodhi, Kane, Southee all miss out.”

England vs New Zealand Live Score: The 2023 World Cup starts off with New Zealand winning the toss and choosing to bowl first.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Ooooo it is getting closer. The ODI World Cup, still arguably the holy grail of cricket despite all the glossy glitzy T20 tournaments that have popped up and the World Test Championship as well, is about to get underway. Jos Buttler is out there with New Zealand's stand-in captain Tom Latham, who has effectively been the team's captain for the better part of a year in this format really.

Mike Atherton says that he would be surprised if Stokes will play today. “Would be surprised if he plays today. Harry Brook who Indians would've seen getting one hundred but not much else, he will come into the side for Stokes. Question marks around Stokes's general fitness. When he reversed his ODI retirement it was on the understanding that he would play as a batter alone. He has a chronic knee condition that prevents him from bowling and now he has a hip complaint.”

England vs New Zealand Live Score: The crowd is building up slowly. It is pretty hot so the folks are taking their own sweet time to get in.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: Incredibly, this is not the first time that these two sides are playing the opening match of a World Cup. That was in 1996 when the tournament was hosted in India as well and, even more incredibly, the match was in Ahmedabad. New Zealand, captained by Lee Germon, beat Mike Atherton's England by 11 runs.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: It is warm in Ahmedabad and so the pitch will have some dryness. There has traditionally been some movement for pacers under the lights.

"Playing in a World Cup in these sort of conditions over in India is pretty special and I'm sure we're going to see some fantastic cricket over the next sort of six to eight weeks. So, fingers crossed there's plenty of one day cricket coming up in the future, but from our point of view all we can do is try to entertain from a cricket point of view. If we can do that and put a good showcase on for the people around the world, then hopefully it's here to stay."

England vs New Zealand Live Score: It had looked like Kane Williamson, who seemed to have only just shaken off his elbow injury troubles, would miss the World Cup altogether when he got injured during the first match of the IPL this year. However, he has returned in time for the tournament. That said, he won't be playing today and Tom Latham will be leading the team. Williamson played in the warm-ups, and that included a well constructed 91 runs from 101 balls.

England vs New Zealand Live Score: This is what Jos Buttler had to say about whether England with go for Stokes or not today. "I think we'll make the right call here [on whether to rest Ben Stokes who has a niggle]. Whether [sic] he's not fit to play, he's not fit to play. If he is, then we can make that decision. But it's not a time to take big risks on someone at the start of the tournament. Nearer the end, maybe do take more of a risk with people's injuries. But, yeah, it's going to be a long tournament. So, we'll see how the guys pull up here at training today and post-training, and then we can make our decisions"