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Southee comes back with a clever slower ball and Root can't measure the pace. No run.

McClenaghan is back again and Stoke tickles his first delivery for a single.

It was a slower ball from McClenaghan and Root mistimed it, squaring the ball high to Guptill at cover.

Just two overs to go and Southee has been given the ball again.

Just a single through the covers on his next.

Rashid is the new man in.

Henry will bowl the Black Caps' last over. England on 177.

Great fielding from Williamson to prevent a boundary on the second ball, diving at full stretch from point. Just a single.

Rashid opens the face and glides Henry for four past short third man.

Dot ball. Great bowling.

I think England have reached what should be a par, or just below par score. This should be a compelling chase on a fine Manchester evening. Innings report to come shortly.

We are back underway with Guptill and McCullum at the crease.

WICKET - Guptill has been bowled.

Williamson is the new man in.

McCullum hasn't opened the batting in T20 cricket for NZ since 2011.

Here is Andrew Alderson's first innings report:

An intriguing chase awaits New Zealand in the sole Twenty 20 international against England after the hosts opted to bat and made 191 for seven.

This pitch looks a belter on a fine Manchester evening. It’s debatable whether their effort is a par score in the benign circumstances. Given the time of year, daylight should last for the majority of the visitors’ innings.

England went for their shots. The amount of fuel used to light flame throwers after any of the side’s six sixes reminded of Cape Canaveral on launch day.

Regular wickets stymied the run flow although England had five wickets remaining with 25 balls left.
Mitchell Santner was the pick of the bowlers with figures of two for 28, including nine dot balls. The delivery which bowled Jonny Bairstow was a candidate for pride of place on New Zealand’s innings mantelpiece. The hero from the fifth ODI misjudged the line and it hit the top of middle stump.

Joe Root kept England’s cadence high for the majority with 68 from 46 balls across a 14.2 over span.

Mitchell McClenaghan, returning in what might well be considered his specialist form of cricket, sealed the No.3’s demise with what appeared a slower ball bouncer. Root stretched for the shot and parried it to Martin Guptill at deep cover. McClenaghan finished with figures of two for 37 from four overs.

A literal highlight of England’s innings was the new orange shirt of their strip. Various descriptions of the hue were suggested from US prison overall apricot to tangelo trajectory to zesty mandarin.

One pondered what WG Grace might have made of the divergence from a more traditional red?

Regardless, it was an explosive start from England's phosphorus match heads Jason Roy (23 from 13) and Alex Hales (27 from 23). Roy was run out by a Kane Williamson throw after Hales pushed a single to cover. Brendon McCullum made a running catch to extra cover look easy off Hales, giving Santner his first T20I wicket.

McCullum is on fire. He has just whacked a huge six over square leg to shoot through to 14 off 5 balls.

Boom. Another six for McCullum. He now has three fours and two sixes and looks pretty damn good.

11 runs from that over. Wood into the attack now for England.

Another 6. This one over point.