Ross Taylor will find out on Wednesday whether he can take part in the rest of the 50 over series against England.

The Black Caps' hopes of winning the one day series against England could be in disarray with injury fears over Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor.

Williamson missed the one-sided defeat to England in Mount Maunganui on Wednesday night with a hamstring injury, while Taylor will have a scan in Wellington on Thursday on a quad muscle he damaged in the game, when being run out by David Willey.

Taylor, who had a superb century reaching knock in the opening ODI of the series, where he helped guide New Zealand to an impressive win, was forced to sit in the pavilion on Wednesday night when the Black Caps fielded.

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Unlike the series against the West Indies and Pakistan earlier this summer, the Black Caps have got a real challenge on their hands this time, especially if they are without Taylor and Williamson.

At the Mount, New Zealand's total of 223 was never going to be enough against a good England batting line up and if Taylor and Williamson are absent for Saturday's game in Wellington, the pressure will be on the likes of Martin Guptill, Colin Munro and Mark Chapman to step up.

There will also need to be a marked improvement in the running between the wickets.

"We scrapped through to something we could bowl at but it's never easy when you hand the opposition four run outs," acting New Zealand captain Tim Southee said of the team's poor batting performance on Wednesday.

"The effort from the bowlers was top drawer, to keep coming in trying to create chances. But the way [England] played they were too good today," he said.

New Zealand's bowlers will also need to match the consistency the English bowlers showed at Mount Maunganui.

"A lot of credit goes to the way England bowled and kept applying pressure and trying to take wickets," Southee said.

"The beauty of this side is we don't get caught up when we're winning and we won't get too down when we're losing. In a couple of days we get to crack on and do it again."