Anatomy of the collapse: A statistical look at England's terrible innings in Auckland

If you can bare to look... here are the numbers behind England's remarkable collapse

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Moeen Ali is bowled during England's 58 all out

Here are the stats behind that miserable innings...

0 - The dreaded duck was etched next to the names of five English batsmen - Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow, Moeen Ali and Stuart Broad. That ties the record for the most Englishmen to fail to score a run in a completed Test match innings.

1 - This English side is only the fifth ever to be dismissed inside the first session of a Test match. Four of those five instances have taken place in the past decade.

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It was England's sixth-lowest Test score

4 - Joe Root reluctantly moved up the order after James Vince was dropped but his time at No. 3 didn’t last long. Trent Boult got his man, finding late swing to bowl the England skipper between bat and pad.

Root failed to score; it was just his fourth duck in 120 Test innings for his country. Three of those have come against New Zealand.

No other batsman with 5,000 or more runs to their name for England has fewer. Wally Hammond also failed to score on four occasions, from 140 knocks.

6 - Alastair Cook endured another tough outing at the top of the order. After a mistimed early pull, which just cleared mid-on, and an inside edge which flew past his leg stump, Cook edged Boult to second slip.

It was the sixth time in 14 innings that Cook has been dismissed by the New Zealand left-armer.

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Trent Boult took six wickets and Tim Southee claimed four

20.4 - England’s innings lasted just 124 balls. Only four other full innings in Test history have taken up fewer deliveries. The shortest? Australia’s collapse to 60 all out at Trent Bridge in 2015, which last 18.3 overs.

32 - Boult’s final figures of 6-32 from 10.4 overs are the best of a Test career which has covered 53 appearances.

56.89% - Coming in at No. 9, Craig Overton clobbered 33 not out from 25 balls to finish with over half of his side’s total runs.

93 - The number of minutes it took for England to lose all 10 of their first-innings wickets.

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