Kane Williamson, second right, takes the plaudits from his team-mates.

Kane Williamson, right, is at full stretch as he takes the catch in mid-air.

Black Caps captain Kane Williamson, far right, dives to catch a shot by England tailender Stuart Broad off the bowling of Tim Southee at Auckland's Eden Park.

Trent Boult led the Black Caps in a rout of England in the first session of the day-night test at Eden Park in Auckland.

The tourists were all out for 58 inside 21 overs, 31 of which were scored by the final pair of Craig Overton and James Anderson.

Boult claimed career-best figures of six for 32, while his new-ball partner Tim Southee took four for 35, after Kane Williamson won the toss on Thursday and chose to bowl.

England's lowest test innings remains the 45 they made against Australia in Sydney in January 1887, though they did threaten to erase it from the history books, as well as New Zealand's world record of 26, when they were 23-8.

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There was some movement in the air for the bowlers with the pink ball, but nothing too outrageous. They simply stuck to their lines and probed away, making the England batsmen pay for some poor decisions.

Boult's first wicket came at 2.15pm, 15 minutes after the start of the historic fixture, when he got England opener Alastair Cook to edge one to Tom Latham at second slip while on five - the first of nine wickets to fall in less than an hour.

STU FORSTER/GETTY IMAGES Trent Boult led the way as the Black Caps routed England in the first session of the first test at Eden Park.

He struck again in his next over, getting one to come back in and bowl England captain Joe Root for a duck, and again in the one after that, when he had Dawid Malan caught behind by BJ Watling for two.

That was when Southee got in on the action, first forcing opener Mark Stoneman to prod at one and miss outside off, then getting him to edge one through to Watling. Stoneman made 11 off 20 balls, the second-highest score of the England innings.

Boult then bowled Ben Stokes, promoted to No 5, for a duck, leaving England 18-5 at the end of the 11th over.

That became 18-6 in the 12th, as Southee had Jonny Bairstow caught and bowled for the third duck of the innings.

Boult then struck for the fifth over in a row, bowling Chris Woakes for five to complete his sixth five-wicket bag in test cricket, and England were 23-7.

Southee got his third, bowling Moeen Ali with a beautiful slower ball yorker for yet another duck.

At 23-8, it looked like New Zealand's world record for the lowest test innings of 26 was a chance to be beaten, but Overton proved to be the hero, squeezing a wide ball from Boult to the third man boundary, and taking England through to 27.

STU FORSTER/GETTY IMAGES The Black Caps celebrate the wicket of England batsman Dawid Malan in Auckland.

Williamson then produced the moment of the innings in the 16th over, leaping to his left at gully to grab a one-handed catch that sent Stuart Broad on his way - the team's fifth duck, and Southee's fourth wicket.

Overton counter-attacked and helped England avoid utter embarrassment, and finished not out on 33, when Anderson spooned an easy catch to Henry Nicholls at point and became Boult's sixth victim.

England's 58 was still their sixth-lowest total, which left them with some work to do to claw their way back into the match, the first of two tests.

Boult and Southee bowled unchanged, for 11 and 10 overs respectively, and thoroughly deserved to put their feet up.

HOW ENGLAND COLLAPSED

2pm - play begins

2.15pm - Cook c Latham b Boult 5

2.24pm - Root b Boult 0

2.33pm - Malan c Watling b Boult 2

2.40pm - Stoneman c Watling b Southee 11

2.44pm - Stokes b Boult 0

2.49pm - Bairstow c&b Southee 0

2.57pm - Woakes b Boult 5

3.02pm - Ali b Southee 0

3.12pm - Broad c Williamson b Boult 0

3.17pm - England pass the world record low score of 26

3.33pm - Anderson c Nicholls b Boult 1

3.33pm - England all out for 58