New Zealand vs England, 4th ODI - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Hello and welcome to the live blog of the fourth ODI between New Zealand and England. The visitors lead the series 2-1 and will be eyeing a series win. New Zealand couldn't have wished for a better venue for a must-win fixture because their record at University of Otago Oval is formidable. They have never been defeated at the quaint ground in the student town of Dunedin - named after Edinburgh, the Scottish capital - in six matches and they bowled Pakistan out for just 74 there in January with left-arm seamer Trent Boult taking 5 for 17.

They will still feel very much in this series, too. Although they are 2-1 down, their narrow four-run defeat in the last match in Wellington could so easily have been a victory had one more batsman given Kane Williamson some support. As it was, the captain's magnificent unbeaten hundred was in vain and England now have the advantage after losing the opening game in Hamilton.

Although Williamson said he wasn't concerned about the form of his middle order, Henry Nicholls, Tom Latham and Colin de Grandhomme all have questions to answer and New Zealand's three best players, Williamson, Ross Taylor and Martin Guptill, need more support from the rest of the top seven. Collapses like the one in Wellington - they lost five wickets for 23 runs - are becoming worryingly regular.

England will take heart from their victory in the previous match and not just because it has put them ahead in the series. On a difficult pitch, their batsmen intelligently assessed conditions to post a competitive score instead of aiming for 350 and being bundled out cheaply. That has not always been the way of things - the semi-final of the last year's Champions Trophy against Pakistan, for example - which suggests they are becoming a more rounded side.

In contrast to New Zealand's reliance on a few senior players so far in this series, England have plenty of players contributing including Chris Woakes and Tom Curran who bowled nerveless final overs in the third game and Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali who are combining to good effect as a spinning double-act. Perhaps only the opening batsmen, Jonny Bairstow and Jason Roy, could do with some runs.