Paul Clarkson: Stoke score 6 - Stokes hits some more.

If you didn't know, Stoke beat Liverpool 6-1, external in Steven Gerrard's final game on the last weekend of the Premier League season.

Henry is unable to find a way through Cook, who sees off four and nicks a single off the fifth.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

"These are scenes that will live long in the memory. Stokes punched the air and looked to the sky, Lord's erupted and Alastair Cook sprinted to embrace English cricket's new hero. There was tears from a woman I think might be Stokes' girlfriend and handshakes from at least five of the New Zealanders. The best moment, though, was Joe Root's salute, greeted by a huge cheer. Are you watching Marlon Samuels?"

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Charlie Rhodes: @benstokes38 is a serious class act! I'd put money on him taking a few last innings wickets too! He's on fire!

Woody Harrison: Amazing batting from Stokes! Someone needs to tell him it's a test match not a T20.

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"The whole game has been tremendous for Test cricket. It shows if you have a mindset of attack you can put quality teams like New Zealand under pressure."

New Zealand look lost for ideas, which is not something you say often about a Brendon McCullum team. Mark Craig is back into the attack but the England pair work him around for a couple.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"Stokes's hundred from 85 balls is the fastest Test century at Lord's, beating Mohammad Azharuddin's off 87 balls for India in 1990."

Scott Griffiths: Let this be an end to the debate as to whether Ben Stokes should be in the Test team and where he bats!

Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"I can't tell you how good an innings that is. To look so much in control has been extraordinary."

Well played Ben Stokes. Short, full, it doesn't matter where they pitch them. Henry goes full but the Durham man punches it down the ground for four to take him to 99. He then works one away for a single off the last ball and and HQ erupts. It was going to have to be something special to eclipse Alastair Cook's century today. That is exactly what this is. Joe Root stands and salutes him from the balcony.

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England 353-4 (92 overs) - lead by 219 runs

Batsmen: Cook 118*, Stokes 95*

Fall of wickets: 14-1 (Lyth 12), 25-2 (Ballance 0), 74-3 (Bell 29) 232-4 (Root 84)

Bowling figures: Boult 25-5-62-1, Southee 24-3-114-2, Henry 21-3-79-1, Craig 18-1-72-0, Anderson 3-0-13-0, Williamson 1-0-2-0

First innings: England 389; NZ 523

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Jack Blackburn: Ben Stokes: this is one of the best innings I've ever seen live. Just audacious, dominant and supreme.

Rob Meech: Ben Stokes is showing what a superb cricketer he could become. Not the finished article, but the ingredients are there.

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Cook was on 98 when Stokes came out to bat. He is now on 118 and, after this latest over from Boult, Stokes has 95. It is one of the most audacious, brutal Test innings of recent times by an England player and it is leaving some Kiwi bowlers with increasingly ugly figures.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Lord's

"It's thrilling, hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck, edge-of-the-seat, box-office stuff from Ben Stokes, entertainment that this whole crowd is invested in. See ball, hit ball, with every boundary cheered more loudly than the last. Flintoff-esque?"

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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"This is wonderful. The cricket over the last four days has been fantastic to watch but this last hour from Ben Stokes has surpassed that. They're dancing in the stands."

Jeffrey Yeung: Great shots from Stokes but I hope he settles down and get a 100, he deserves it after these two great innings he has played.

Fi: Isn't Test cricket like this fab? Tense and exciting!

What was that definition of madness again? Southee digs in another short ball that Stokes pulls to the point boundary and straight up one of the drainage pipes. The ball retrieved, Southee digs in another short ball that Stokes puts into the stand. England's number six shows the ability that underpins his aggression with the best shot of the lot to drive a fuller ball straight past the bowler and down for four more. That is 37 off the last two Southee overs. It is Twenty20 stuff and absolutely brilliant.

These two batsmen are proving to be a superb pairing of styles and temperament. Stokes is taking the game to New Zealand, with Cook solidly supporting him. Silk and steel. It is the more of the latter in this over as Cook flat-bats Boult.

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Now seems a good time for this... tickets for the final day will be available at the North Gate from 09:00 BST - priced £20 for adults, £10 for over-65s and free for under-16s (cash only). Could be a great day in prospect too.

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

"The 100 stand in just 120 balls."