Thrashing halts England's progress

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Comprehensively outplayed in the opener to the five-match series at Wellington on Saturday, when New Zealand cruised to a six-wicket win with 20 overs to spare, England suffered an even bigger hammering in the second match of the series.

"We've had two good performances in the Twenty20 and when we came into the 50-overs form there was a lot of confidence - for some reason over the last two games it's been dented," conceded captain Paul Collingwood.

Despite a promising start, England suffered a 10-wicket defeat for only the fourth time in their 485-match history of one-day internationals with New Zealand finishing them off with a ferocious intensity which left Collingwood looking almost shell-shocked.

Chasing a revised victory target of 165 despite dismissing England for 158 in a match reduced to 36 overs a side under the Duckworth-Lewis system, openers Jessie Ryder and Brendon McCullum cut, pulled and drove their way to a lightning-quick record partnership.

Their 165-run stand off 109 balls was the biggest ever by New Zealand against England and perhaps emphasised the gulf between the two sides only a week after the tourists appeared set for a comfortable series having won the two Twenty20 Internationals in style.

"When you've had two defeats like that confidence is going to get dented a little, but what we've got to do in that dressing room is regroup, talk about it and be honest with ourselves, and hopefully come out and apply the sort of standards we set ourselves in one-day cricket recently," continued Collingwood.

"There are a lot of people in that dressing room that are very, very hurt about the performance, but we have to turn that around.

"The good thing is we've got three games left and we're still in with a chance. If this team does play to 100% we can beat anybody on our day and we've got to get back to that."