Toss England selected to bat vs New Zealand

Atkinson was unknown to many outdoors his county, Surrey, initially of the summer time however has shot up the pecking order with a sequence of spectacular shows, together with within the Hundred for champions, Oval Invincbles, for whom he was clocked at 95mph/152kph.

"Really excited for him to get this chance," Jos Buttler stated. "He's got some great attributes, not expecting too much just backing him to do his thing. He's got extra pace, and pace and create wickets. Not too worried about runs, guys who can bowl fast can sometimes leak runs but hopefully he'll create some chances for us.

New Zealand were unchanged, with Tim Southee admitting he too would have preferred to bowl first - and calling for his side to put on a better showing after being swept aside in the first match of four.

"Looks a fairly good floor so hopefully we will bowled properly and prohibit them to a good rating," he said. "New floor, new floor, we've to adapt shortly."

England 1 Jonny Bairstow, 2 Will Jacks, 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Harry Brook, 5 Jos Buttler (capt & wk), 6 Liam Livingstone, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Sam Curran, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Brydon Carse, 11 Gus Atkinson

New Zealand 1 Finn Allen, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Tim Seifert (wk), 4 Glenn Phillips, 5 Mark Chapman, 6 Daryl Mitchell, 7 Mitchell Santner, 8 Adam Milne, 9 Tim Southee, 10 Ish Sodhi, 11 Lockie Ferguson