Yes! Brilliant! Stokes delivers three absolutely glorious balls - the first rises sharply and darts past the bat to shake Williamson up, the second nips past his outside edge and the third draws a loose poke to off that catches the bat and is caught low down by Root at gully. The roar around the ground says it all. The main source of resistance is gone. England are on the charge!

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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Alastair Cook should keep letting them score. If they play two or three nice strokes, don't spread the field. You've got to create opportunities."

Wood will run (pelt) in for England all day long, but he is not getting a lot of joy out of this New Zealand pair, who are consolidating well. They have halted England's momentum and the Lord's crowd has settled back to an expectant murmur.

Martin Cee, London: Butter and mint crisps??!! What sort of hellish parallel universe/asylum are you living in?!

I can assure you, they weren't my purchase. I'm very much a beef and onion man myself.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

"Just after Broad went past Watling's outside edge, the crowd came alive, clapping and cheering encouragement to the home team. Joe Root acted as conductor, waving his arms to ask for more noise."

Dan B: Three early wickets, great picnic in Blackpool beach, now red arrows delivering, will need another few wickets once air display is over, great back holiday with family.

We are going to see Stokes again before Moeen. The Durham seamer hits the track hard from the Nursery End and draws a few half-hearted yelps from the England slip cordon as Williamson defends for another maiden. Tidy over.

daniel gibson: Now gone 30 mins without a wicket. how long before doom n gloomers start again?

We're just passing a bag of posh crisps round at the moment. Summer butter and mint. Begs the question; what separates a summer butter from a winter butter? Anyway, Wood continues to charge in but Watling is able to see him off, with four leg byes being added to the New Zealand total courtesy of flicked pad down to fine leg.

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Phil Tufnell
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Interesting to see when Moeen comes on, Cook hasn't got a lot of confidence in him I don't think but it just brings a few men around the bat and creates that feeling of pressure. Another five or 10 minutes and I'd be looking to have a bit of Moeen."

The odds on Trevor Bayliss being appointed England coach appear to have shortened some more...

Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie, who was seen as the favourite for the job, has revealed he is not the England and Wales Cricket Board's choice to take over.

Australian Gillespie, who said he spoke to England cricket director Andrew Strauss on Monday, told BBC Radio Leeds: "He said they've got a preferred candidate they're speaking to. That's absolutely fine, no worries at all."

Read more on Bayliss's seemingly imminent appointment.

Peter in Bournemouth: Trevor Bayliss a wind - up or will he make the team run like clockwork?

Broad gets a pop at Watling and draws approval from the crowd with a full ball that nips off a length and draws a loose, connection-free flash from the batsman. Williamson takes over and calms matters down. Cook maybe needs another shake-up of his attack. Moeen?

England won't mind New Zealand scoring boundaries while playing away from the body. Wood catches an edge off Watling's bat that sends the ball skipping past the skip cordon and down to the rope. Wood then keeps Watling on his toes (or on his knees to be more accurate) with a short ball that rises past the batsman's ducking head.

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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

"I think Jimmy Anderson will get a bowl shortly. I'm a great believer in putting your best bowlers on after lunch or tea or the start of a day. Anderson is the top-class bowler and you can bowl him in short spells because you've got four seamers."

matt roberts: Let's hope we can keep bowling well. NZ surely will come in with different safety-first mindset for pm session.

Adam Lyth hasn't had the best debut. He follows up two failures with the bat by clocking a shy at the stumps on the wrist in his attempt to prevent over-throws. He's a tough Whitby lad, though. Couple of shakes and he's good to go. Meanwhile, Williamson nicks an inswinger off glove and then thigh pad to send the ball spinning past Buttler fine on the leg side for four.

Neil Sherringham: Let's be under no illusion, Bayliss isn't coming for the love of English cricket he is coming for money he couldn't refuse.

Danny Boy Harvey: Jason Gillespie once bought me a drink - what's Trevor Bayliss ever done to earn the coaching role?

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The delivery Wood has in his locker when he moves wider in the crease to deliver is a useful weapon. He slams one in short of a length and sends the ball whistling past the outside of Williamson's loosely offered back-foot defensive shot. Williamson responds by going back to push a subsequent ball through cover for four. It remains a gripping contest.