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I'm Jonathan Agnew, welcome to the World Cup Daily podcast and it's been a very sobering

start for England. Mowing, round the wicket, bowls has turned away, through midwicket by

Ravindra who'll finish on 123 and New Zealand have absolutely hammered England in the opening

match of the World Cup. We'll get the thoughts of Stephen Finn and Alex Hartley and we'll

get reaction from Josh Butler, Joe Root and the player of the match, Ratchin Ravindra.

You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 live. Right, Stephen, put that into words.

Well, I think the toss I think is going to be an interesting subject of conversation over

the next couple of weeks with I think the disparity in conditions between the two innings.

It's going to be interesting to see whether other games take a similar course. I still think

that New Zealand would have won with the discipline that they showed first and foremost with the ball.

I thought that Matt Henry set the tone outstandingly well, challenged the outside edge and hit the

track hard and then Mitchell Sandler with his finger spin through the middle only conceded 37 runs

off his 10 overs. I think really put a strangle hold on England. I think the players getting in and

then no one really grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck and being the person that everyone

else batted around and then allowing that explosive lower middle order that we know England have

that was been so talked about in the build up to this tournament. If you set them a platform

for those last 20 overs then they could really explode but they were never afforded the opportunity

to do that and then when England got the ball in their hand I think they started without the

discipline that was required at the top of the innings especially seeing how Henry bold in the

initial stages of the England innings I thought that no England ball have really found that line

and length to begin with even Sam Curran the way it was caught down the leg side there was a bit of

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