England defeated New Zealand in their second match of ICC Champions Trophy 2017 and became the first team to qualify for the semi-final round of the tournament.
Liam Plunkett was the pick of the bowlers for England with figures of four for 55.
Wood returned at the 30-over stage of New Zealand's run chase in Cardiff to take the critical wicket of Kane Williamson for 87.
New Zealand will also be looking for England to do them a favour, as an Australia win would send the Kiwis out.
England: Eoin Morgan (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Sam Billings (wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Moeen Ali, Jake Ball, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, David Willey, Mark Wood, Steven Finn.
"We'll have a very serious attitude", said Morgan.
England captain Eoin Morgan says they will not take their foot off the gas as they prepare to face Australia on Saturday.
Although pleased with England's bowling performance - with all five bowlers taking wickets - Morgan was less satisfied with the batting. England will look to put one foot in the semi-finals with a second successive win while New Zealand will aim for two full points after rain denied them a crack at Australia. "They seem to produce limited-overs cricketers at will", the former Ireland global added.
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Asked about the prospect of putting Australia out of the tournament, he said: "We won't think too much about it. but it is always nice to know that would be the outcome if we did win".
They did not quite click on this occasion, but still topped that benchmark.
"With the inconsistency of the pitch, I thought if we genuinely did take one, we would take two". If we're truly going to be contenders for this tournament, we need to beat the best teams. The speedster fourth delivery of the innings ripped through Kiwi opener Luke Ronchi's defence and dismantled his middle stump.
However, England were unable to build on the spark of success as the experienced head of Ross Taylor joined Williamson at the crease.
However, with the match against Bangladesh being played on the same wicket, Hesson said the team learnt a lot about the surface and the conditions, and would utilise that in Friday's tilt. "I thought we would have got more".
Heavy rain in Cardiff on Monday left New Zealand contemplating the prospect of another washout but Guptill said: "We can't control the weather".
"(But) Going away to the IPL I felt in fantastic form, and then since I have been back I have scored a couple of fifties in three or four games".
"He's performed very, very well for England over a period of time - especially coming back after injury.so certainly he is a strength of their bowling attack".
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