Rain in London has delayed the start of the first npower Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's on Thursday.

TEAMS
England: Michael Vaughan (capt), Alastair Cook, Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Tim Ambrose (wkt), Stuart Broad, Ryan Sidebottom, Monty Panesar, James Anderson.

New Zealand (from): Aaron Redmond, Jamie How, James Marshall, Ross Taylor, Brendon McCullum (wkt), Daniel Flynn, Jacob Oram, Daniel Vettori (capt), Kyle Mills, Tim Southee, Iain O'Brien, Chris Martin.

Umpires: Simon Taufel (Aus) and Steve Bucknor (WI)

TV umpire: Nigel Llong (Eng)

Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle (Sri)