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England's abject brush with history

Joe Root's England team fall a couple of runs short of Australia at Trent Bridge after being skittled for 58 by New Zealand

Two-and-a-half years after Australia crashed to Ashes ignominy at Trent Bridge, England have produced an even more abject batting effort against the swinging ball as they were bowled out for 58 in barely 20 overs by New Zealand.

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Having been sent into bat under sunny Auckland skies in the first day-night Test the fourth-ranked nation has hosted, England found themselves staring at their lowest-ever completed innings score – 45 against Australia in 1886-87 – when they plummeted to 9-27 in the 16th over.

Only a desperately rearguard last-wicket stand of 31 between seamer Craig Overton (33 not out from 25 balls) and number 11 James Anderson who was last man dismissed for one carried England's total to 58, their sixth-lowest in Test cricket.

That also represents the lowest innings total recorded in a Test since Pakistan were rolled for 49 by South Africa at the Wanderers in Johannesburg five years ago.

And England's worst batting performance since Andrew Strauss's team was skittled for 51 in their second innings of the first Test against the West Indies at Jamaica in February, 2009.

When Moeen Ali became the fourth player to fall without scoring and England tottered at 8-23 after just 13.4 overs, there existed a very real chance that England might inherit the shame of the lowest-ever Test total that New Zealand has held since they were bowled out for 26 in 1955.

Against their opponent of today, and at the very same venue – Eden Park, better known as the home of rugby in New Zealand but chosen to host the historic day-night Test which is England's third and New Zealand's second experience using the pink ball.

The tally of five ducks bagged by England's batters against the controlled swing and flawless catching of the home team – to captain Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad – equalled the highest number in a Test innings by cricket's founding nation.

The previous instance of five England ducks in the space of 10 wickets occurring at the 1956 Ashes Test against Australia at The Oval with only four teams – Pakistan (v West Indies, 1980), South Africa (v India, 1996), Bangladesh (v West Indies, 2002) and India (v England, 2014) recording six ducks.

Unlike Trent Bridge in 2015 when Broad (8-15), Mark Wood (1-13) and Steve Finn (1-21) dismantled Australia in 18.3 overs, the Black Caps required just two bowlers to knock over England in today's first session.

By succumbing in just 95 minutes of batting time prior to the tea break (the first under the day-night format), England became just the fifth team in 141 years to be bowled out in the first session of a Test.

Left-armer Trent Boult's 6-32 gave him career-best Test figures and the best by a New Zealand bowler since Neil Wagner claimed 7-39 against the West Indies at Wellington earlier this summer, while Tim Southee's support act netted him 4-25.