Thanks Tom, and hello there.

Time to shake off some of those pre-midnight lightweights and really strap-in for the overnight.

Will you be rewarded with some heavy Root and Bethell run accumulation? Or could the New Zealand attack push you towards some shut eye?

We'll soon find out.

As the two teams tuck into what is likely to be a delicious lunch, I too am going to take a break.

Luckily Mike Peter is here to guide you through the afternoon session.

Jacob Bethell brings up the England fifty with a lovely drive through the covers. Tim Southee responds next delivery by getting the ball to spit up at Bethell and hit him on the glove.

Bethell nudges another single with a straight push down the ground to get England through to lunch on 54-2, trailing by 293 runs.

I think that will go down as New Zealand's session, but the Test match itself still feels evenly poised.

Joe Root has the knack of keeping the scoreboard ticking without anyone really noticing. He has raced to a run-a-ball 15 in no time, though he is beaten by another beauty from Matt Henry outside off stump.

Henry got through that over at a fair lick so we will squeeze another one in before the break.

Lovely cover drive from Joe Root, who is looking in decent touch. It doesn't quite have enough to reach the rope though so England have to be content with two.

Root ends the over with another single clipped off his pads.

We will probably get one more over in before lunch.

Matt Henry has been on the money most of this innings but is left shaking his head after two loose deliveries are punished by Joe Root.

The first is on leg stump and helped round the corner for a bit of a freebie. The second is a touch too full and Root clips it nicely through square.

So in a flash we have two new England batters at the crease - Jacob Bethell and Joe Root.

Bethell, in just his third Test, probably couldn't ask for a better batting partner as they try to dig England out of a bit of a hole.

Kieran Parmley
Cricviz analyst

Crawley's dismissal by Henry means this is the first time an opener has been dismissed 5+ times by a bowler in a series since Warner vs Broad, Ashes 2019 (7 dismissals).

Hmm. A leading edge from Zak Crawley loops back to Matt Henry who takes the catch diving forward.

The third umpire is going to take another look...

Kieran Parmley
Cricviz analyst

Zak Crawley's head-to-head against New Zealand's opening bowlers:

• Tim Southee - 84 runs, 4 dismissals, 21.00 average
• Matt Henry - 19 runs, 6 dismissals, 3.16 average

He is yet to face a delivery from any bowler other than the opening duo in this series.

Tim Southee bowls a tighter line and length but Zak Crawley is equal to it, with a couple of solid forward defensive strokes.

New Zealand will be grateful for a maiden after the carnage of the first three overs.

Kieran Parmley
Cricviz analyst

There have been 32 instances of a batter scoring 16 or more runs off an over in Test cricket this year - England are responsible for 13 of them with Ben Duckett (four times) and Zak Crawley (three times) the only batters to do it more than twice.

Ben Duckett is more comfortable facing Matt Henry than he was in his previous over, working the New Zealand seamer for a couple of twos either side of the square.

A quick run single brings Zak Crawley on strike, who finds the boundary once more with a thick edge that fizzes through third man.

Not what Tim Southee was hoping for to start his final Test match.

It is classic Zak Crawley (in a good sense). Overpitched from Tim Southee and the England opener drives gloriously through the covers, repeating the trick next ball.

Crawley makes it a hat-trick of boundaries with a check drive that beats long-on, before wrapping up the over with a straighter drive that races to the rope.

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