Well, that concludes another fascinating, topsy-turvy day of Test cricket in this enthralling series. England were well on top for most of the day but a brilliant spell of new-ball bowling from New Zealand has brought them back into this match and given them a fighting chance of getting the win they need to square this series.
Tomorrow will be an absolutely crucial day in deciding the outcome of this match. Join us for the live text from 10:25 BST. Until then, goodbye.
Captain's view
Captain Alastair Cook, who became England's leading run scorer in Test history, tells Sky Sports: "I can't really describe it. I probably don't deserve to be there. You don't play for the record, but I knew what I needed to break the record.
"It is a huge battle to have longevity as a Test cricketer. It is an amazing journey. As a batsmen you obviously have a lot more bad times. It's been a battle but I'm delighted that today was a special day.
"The last 18 months has been a tough one for me personally. I think that's part and parcel of being a batter. A lot of stuff has gone on and the last four or five months I have dedicated time to my game. When you are in a bit of form, you have to make it count."
"If the rain stays away, I think there will be a result. I couldn't tell you until that third innings who will win. England might get blown away tomorrow morning."
Captain's view
England captain Alastair Cook on TMS: "It was an amazing moment, a personal one - I haven't been nervous in the 20s before, I didn't want to fall four short. I've not heard from Goochie yet as we're not allowed our phones with us, I'm sure he's somewhere in Essex enjoying a glass of red wine but I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him."
Player reaction
England batsman Adam Lyth on Sky Sports: "It's a fantastic moment and my family who came from Whitby: I'm very pleased to get three figures in front of my home crowd. I was a little bit nervous in the 90s, but to be fair New Zealand did bowl pretty well. Reaching the hundred was a moment that I'll never forget. I would have liked to have got more runs at Lord's. I was pleased we'd won the Test match but I knew this game I needed to get some runs. I was more nervous this game than I was at Lord's. A couple of years ago I didn't deserve the England shirt, but I've worked hard and I think I deserve it now."
"Before New Zealand took the new ball, I thought they bowled really well, even the spinner, Craig, who didn't bowl well at Lord's. I talked to McCullum this morning and told them they had to get him to bowl it quicker. He held one end for them with more control, and our openers didn't really go after him. New Zealand scored at 4.6 throughout their innings, and we haven't been able to score at three an over. And when the new ball was taken, it all happened - it got a bit gloomy, Boult and Southee made the ball talk and created problems. The game's moving on."
"If England can get at least level, they know a lot can happen in the third innings - if New Zealand go for glory, that positivity can become reckless, and that could be England's chance."
"I've always had admiration for Alastair Cook's batting. He's had a couple of spells in his career when he's lost it, but he's now playing as good as he's ever played - what he's done differently is just open his front foot so he's not too sideways on. Now he's centred, he's waiting, he's making bowlers bowl at him. If they don't get it perfect, he picks them off on the on side, which he is brilliant at. If you asked me who is the best opening batsman in the world today, no contest: Alastair Cook."
"Terrific cricket to watch, just like Lord's there was a bit of something for everyone, congratulations to the groundsman. Many of us have played at Headingley for a long time, we know you've got to pitch it up to nick the top of the stumps. If you bowl short it sits up and it's easier to hit, but we bowled like that against tail-enders. It was a dozy plan."
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MixItNFixItMan: Can we just accept that New Zealand are a good bowling side and, Lyth wicket aside, we've been undone. Too much player hate.
Mark Gallagher: England fans really don't understand Test cricket.
Graham Lovell: Can't help but think that once Cook was out and Ballance came in, England lost all their momentum and encouraged NZ bowlers. Not a time for run outs either, just before new ball when have established batsmen in.
Close-of-play scorecard
England 253-5 (88 overs)
Batsmen: Bell 12*, Buttler 6*
Fall of wickets: 177-1 (Cook 75), 215-2 (Lyth 107), 238-3 (Ballance 29), 239-4 (Root 1), 247-5 (Stokes 6)
"A lot of overs from Mark Craig in that session and five wickets, so New Zealand's session - I think the first was pretty even, then the middle session you'd give to England. So a pretty even day overall. Tomorrow, if England can get a good start, they can push on from there. With just under 100 runs ahead, I think New Zealand have their nose just ahead in the match, but it's not a done deal."
Day two review
It all seemed to be going so well for England. After a bit of tail-end tap from New Zealand in the morning took them to a very decent score of 350, England set about their work superbly, with Alastair Cook soon passing Graham Gooch as England's all-time leading Test run-scorer in a resolute opening stand with Adam Lyth.
Cook eventually fell for a well-compiled 75 to the impressive Mark Craig, before Lyth went to his maiden Test century, to the delight of his home crowd at Headingley. When he and Gary Ballance took England to 215-1, the hosts looked to be in the box seat.
But the run-out of Lyth just before the new ball was crucial as it left England exposed when Boult and Southee got the new nut in their hands. And how they profited, producing a superb spell of new-ball bowling to take three late wickets and keep New Zealand's chances of win very much alive.
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Luke: New Zealand played really well this evening and are right back in this.
Toks, Nigeria: The challenge is not the run rate but rather the loss of wickets. If England had tried to get runs with the way New Zealand were bowling, you would have had 120 all out which is even worse.
Close of play
Eng 253-5 (trail by 97)
Tim Southee to bowl the last over of the day. He zips one inches past Buttler's off stump, before Buttler responds with a cover drive for two. And that concludes a fascinating day of Test cricket.
"Because England have only scored at 2.8 throughout, and no-one's really pushed on to control the match, they find themselves 100 behind with five wickets down."
Eng 250-5 (Bell 12, Buttler 3)
Jos Buttler is the new man. He's off the mark, jamming his bat down on a full, dangerous delivery and squeezing it out to mid-wicket for three. Wonderful spell from Boult - he really is a world-class operator.
"Boult is so dangerous to left-handers - he gets 22 runs per wicket to left-handers, and 30 runs per wicket to right-handers. Buttler is a very dangerous player, but New Zealand will feel they have an end open here. The new ball came just at the right time and has started to swing."
New Zealand are cracking this game wide open with a devastating spell of new-ball bowling. Trent Boult has had Stokes in all sorts of trouble and he gets his man with a back-of-a-length away-swinger that Stokes can't help but fence at. The ball absolutely flies to second slip and is brilliantly held above his head by Mark Craig. He kisses the ball in triumph. What a moment for New Zealand - the hero of Lord's is back in the sheds.
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Ali Khalid: Just goes to show what a new ball can do for a side. The NZ bowlers, all most likely exhausted from the excellent display from Cook and Lyth, are still managing to produce some brilliant swing bowling.
Saul, New Milton: I don't think either side have gone the right way about batting here. If the Kiwis had been a bit more watchful, they could have gone past 400 and England are now looking short of runs as they haven't accelerated between overs 50 and 80 when batting was easier.
Eng 247-4 (trail by 103)
Poor old Trent Boult is being assailed in song by a gaggle of rowdy nuns, supermen and vicars on the boundary rope, and eventually has to give in to their chanted entreaties to give them a wave. Bell plays out a maiden to Southee. Two overs left.
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Robert Allen: ENG are still in a good position here. 100 behind with plenty of batting left. Get a lead of 150 and things will be interesting.
John ashenden: Good grief, England fans are so negative. It's still a decent position, get a grip. A test match ebbs and flows so just enjoy!
Eng 247-4 (Boult 22-4-60-1)
Boult is right on the money here, pitching the ball on off stump and just shaping it away. Then, just as Stokes is adjusting to the stock delivery, he throws in a superb bouncer, cross-seam, hit-the-deck, rising sharply into the batsman's armpit. And then with the final ball, he goes full again and draws Stokes forward into a loose drive. Brilliant, brilliant over.
"The problem is here, if England were to send a nightwatchman in at this point, Moeen Ali would end up batting at nine, and that's too low."
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Simon Goodall: If he's got any sense, Ballance will walk into the NZ dressing room "by mistake" until Lyth simmers down.
Rob Meech: The two Aussie Mitchells will be licking their lips at Gary Ballance's lack of footwork against the swinging ball.
Louis Strong: A test average of 55, but you seriously cannot stay in the crease to a new ball from someone like Boult! Rookie.
Eng 245-4 (Bell 12, Stokes 4)
England are batting for tomorrow now. Bell and Stokes rotate through for a couple of no-risk singles against Southee.
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Thomas Knights: Here comes the collapse from a good position. New Zealand dominating the final session.
David: This is why you can't just go at 2.5 an over all day, NZ right back in this.
Jack Allum: We've scored incredibly slowly in this session and lost wickets. Can we now try a different tactic? Like scoring quick runs
Eng 242-4 (trail by 108)
Trent Boult and Tim Southee came to these shores with a big reputation as a ferocious new-ball pairing - they haven't quite lived up to it so far, but this is their moment to drag their side back into a winning position in this match. Boult sends down another probing over to Stokes, who gets a couple off the last ball.
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Rob, Somerset: Isn't Test cricket a wonderful thing? The morning session was, on paper, irrelevant. New Zealand added around 50 runs to their total, and England promptly reduced their target by the same amount without loss of wickets. Net gain zero. And yet it has set up the rest of the day so perfectly!
Eng 240-4 (Bell 11, Stokes 1)
Ben Stokes is the new man, and he's off the mark with a single to fine leg.
"A brilliant end to the day for New Zealand, it's been brilliant cricket from them for the last hour or two. I'd imagine Ben Stokes will have been rushing around getting his pads on. The lights are on so I'd imagine it's not an easy time to bat - the perfect time for New Zealand to get Stokes in there, as it's not the time for a counter-punch, he's got to see them through to the close."
"The new ball is doing damage here. A lovely delivery, Root felt he had to play at it and Ronchi did the rest."
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Root c Ronchi b Southee 1 (Eng 239-4)
New Zealand are right back in this now! Absolute beauty from Tim Southee, pitching on off, swinging away and drawing the edge of the dangerman Joe Root. Debutant Luke Ronchi takes a brilliant diving catch. England's excellent day is in danger of unravelling before their eyes...
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Jim: Just to say how impressed I have been in both Tests, with the attitude of all the NZ players. Following the example of their captain. I think they have shown the right response to a difficult day today with great sportsmanship, as they have throughout both matches. Whilst playing with determination and fullest commitment, they have still been able to congratulate England players when appropriate and at all time played in the true spirit of the game. England have responded in similar vein, which has been a delight to see. Let's hope the same attitude prevails through the rest of the summer!
Eng 239-3 (Boult 20-4-56-1)
This is New Zealand's big chance to get back into the match, with a brand new cherry, a new batsman and the light fading. Joe Root is the new man and if they can get him early, the tourists will be in with a real shout. Boult's first two deliveries to Root are superb: the first gets him jumping and prodding the ball aerially just wide off short leg, the second zips just past his outside edge. High-class fast bowling.
"A decent ball, but Ballance didn't move - it's not a ball you wouldn't be able to play. A full ball, a bit of movement but there was no movement at all from his right leg. You've got to have more movement against the new ball than that."
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Ballance b Boult 29 (Eng 238-3)
Well, it had been coming. Trent Boult pins Gary Ballance back in his crease with a succession of cracking deliveries with the new ball, and then gets his man with one that just keeps a little low and smashes into the stumps. Early breakthrough with the second new nut for the Kiwis.
Eng 236-2 (Ballance 27, Bell 11)
Mark Craig spits a gobbet of chewing gum out of his mouth and begins his 22nd over. He nearly does for Ian Bell with a beautiful delivery that pitches in the footmarks, spins through the gate and somehow misses the stumps. Let's just say you don't have to be a lipreading expert to decipher Craig's frustration.
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Roger, the Whitby taxi driver: So proud of Adam Lyth. A thoroughly decent lad who deserves his success today. I have had the pleasure of picking him and his lovely family up on many occasions. I know they will all be so proud today.
Eng 230-2 (trail by 120)
With two overs to go before the new ball, it's sandy-haired part-time tweaker Kane Williamson into the attack. Ballance plays out a maiden. Tim Southee is going through some pre-bowling aerobics in the field.
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Simon Goodall: Goodness me, Ballance has gone from playing as slow as fellow Yorkshireman Boycott, to running like him.
Michael Green: Should never be run-out in Test cricket! #Sloppy
Ed Stockton: Great knock from Lyth but is there a sillier way to get out when you're consolidating a strong position?
Eng 230-2 (Henry 18-4-76-0)
A stacked off-side field for Bell, awaiting the miscued drive, but there's nothing wrong with this one, threading Henry through a gap behind backward point. Too short from Henry.
"You can't criticise Craig's efforts today. He's bowled from both ends and created pressure for New Zealand when they're a bowler short."
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John Barlow, Wantage: Can one assume that the extraordinary difference in scoring rates between the two sides these last two days is due to the bowling, ie the Kiwis appear to be keeping the ball pitched up whilst our home team revert so easily to persistently pitching it short, even when they know that the batsmen are past masters at playing the hook and the cover drive?
Eng 225-2 (Ballance 25, Bell 6)
Ian Bell gets off the mark in style, dancing down the wicket to Mark Craig and launching him over mid-off for a one-bounce four. Craig responds really well, drifting one just past the outside edge.
"The new ball is only four or five overs away, so Henry is going to have to keep bowling so Boult and Southee can have a rest until then."
Eng 219-2 (trail by 131)
That's a handy time for New Zealand to take a wicket, with five overs left until the new ball. If they could whip another one out pronto, it really would be game on. Ian Bell is the new man. Ballance drives Henry through the covers for four.
"I'm not sure who was to blame there, it went to the fielder's left hand but Boult's left-handed. Ballance called, Lyth was a little low setting off and he knew straight away he was gone. I like Lyth, I spoke to him a lot in the West Indies. He's a really good character and he'll have inked himself in for the Ashes on the back of that hundred."
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Lyth run out (Boult) 107 (Eng 215-2)
Well that came out of nowhere. England were chugging along nicely in the slow lane, and then suddenly - breakdown. Gary Ballance nudged one to point, but forgot that the man there was the left-handed Trent Boult, who was able to swoop and unleash an accurate throw into Luke Ronchi, who took it smartly and whipped off the bails. Lyth was a foot short of his ground. He gives Ballance a look like he's just run over his cat.
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Now, there's another run-out shout, and this one looks tight. Adam Lyth is the man with a nervous wait...
Eng 215-1 (Henry 16-4-67-0)
Henry has recovered his lengths here and sends down a maiden to Lyth.
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Stuart Mitchell: Two things I would love right now is for Ballance to get a ton along with Bell - have the top six all in form, with the Ashes looming.
Mark: Lyth looks a far more composed and complete player than those who have opened since Strauss - confidence builder ahead of the Ashes.
Eng 215-1 (Lyth 107, Ballance 21)
Craig has come back really well here - he's bowling really well now, putting the ball in a consistently good area and getting serious dip and grip. Ballance plays out a watchful maiden.
"This is like Lord's. Some balls here, if you pitch it up, can do absolutely anything. Lyth has lost a bit of focus here, trying to pull a ball he should have defended."
Eng 215-1 (trail by 135)
Muted appeals from New Zealand as Matt Henry gets one to nip back in sharply and rap him on the pad, but it's too high. The next ball Lyth plays a very curious shot, trying to pull a ball swinging back into him on off stump and getting an under-edge that flies just past the stumps and away to the fine-leg boundary. Lucky.
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Jonjo in Bristol: Met Gary Ballance's brother out in a bar in Bristol slightly worse for wear a few weeks ago. He ordered a drink from the bar, looked the barman in the eye and said 'Ballance by name, Ballance by nature' and put the glass on his head and jumped around the bar without it falling off his head. Absolutely incredible considering I couldn't even do that sober. The best part was, his mates weren't even surprised they just said 'if you think that's good, you should see Gary'. Reckon we'll get to see that live on TV after an Ashes victory this summer?
Outstanding. What party tricks do you reckon the other members of this England XI have up their sleeves?
Eng 211-1 (Craig 18-8-30-1)
A single for Lyth from Craig's first over after drinks. Are New Zealand hanging on for the new ball now? It's due in nine overs.
Record-breaking Cook - Agnew's verdict
"It is probably true that he is England's bravest and most determined cricketer since Graham Gooch," BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew writes of Alastair Cook, who broke England's Test run record today.
"When he retires from playing, you can imagine him walking away from cricket completely. I suspect the only place I will see him is at Melton market, buying sheep."
"You cannot bowl short there to Ballance. He gets most of his runs square on the off side. It'll be interesting to see what the Australians do - Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson, both left-arm over, might cramp him for room."
Drinks break
Eng 210-1 (Lyth 102, Ballance 21)
Matt Henry has bowled pretty well for the first match-and-a-half of his fledgling Test career, but with the ball old and the conditions unhelpful, he is beginning to dish up some rubbish. Two short, wide deliveries are simply helped to the point boundary by Ballance, before a fuller delivery is creamed through the covers. Are England through that sticky patch? Time for drinks.
"Craig's been able to do a job for them at one end. He's bowled a little bit quicker, not flat, but he's bowled well."
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Shaun: How can people criticise the opening pairs scoring rate? They have seen off the new ball, worn down the bowlers and put on nearly 200, England have such aggressive players in the lower order they can now play freely without pressure, it's a 5 day game, and I for one love it.
Eng 198-1 (trail by 152)
Craig, having bowled some pretty ordinary stuff for this first ten overs, is definitely coming into the game here - he almost finds the edge of Lyth with a delivery that turns appreciably out of the emerging footholes.
"Of the last 20 England players to hit a maiden Test century, 10 have done so in their first or second Test, and the last five have all done it in their second - Ben Stokes, Gary Ballance, Sam Robson, Moeen Ali and now Adam Lyth.
"Lyth is also only the second Yorkshire player to score his maiden Test century at Headingley, after Joe Root in 2013."
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Conor Spackman: First century by an opener from Yorkshire at Leeds since Boycott drove Greg Chappell through mid-on for the hundredth hundred
Rachel T: Yessss! Adam Lyth! Maiden 100 for England, on your home ground, how good must that feel?
Aaron Trowse: Top knock from Lyth on home soil. Looking in good stead. I still wonder how he will take to the pace of the Aussies though
Eng 198-1 (Henry 13-3-51-0)
What a great moment for Adam Lyth. He struggled in the last Test but has played a really composed, fluent innings here, surviving a probing examination from the New Zealand bowlers in the nervous nineties. Ballance flat-bats Henry through backward point for four.
"Headingley are on their feet for one of their own. Adam Lyth, a young man from Whitby, has a very well-played hundred. It's an even more rousing ovation than there was for Alastair Cook earlier."
100 for Lyth
Eng 194-1
He's there! Adam Lyth gets to his first Test century on his home ground. He could easily have been out to the first ball of Mark Craig's over, hitting the ball aerially to mid-off, but sub fielder Neil Wagner seemed to lose track of the ball in the evening gloom and went the wrong way. Thus reprieved, Lyth got there with a big slog-sweep over midwicket, to raucous cheers from the Headingley faithful.
"An interesting little period of play since the dismissal of the captain. New Zealand have tightened their line and bowled with decent hostility, and there's 15 overs left to the second new ball, which McCullum should take as soon as possible."
Eng 186-1 (Lyth 94, Ballance 5)
A full-blooded drive down the ground from Ballance earns him his first four. He still doesn't look entirely comfortable though - survival is the main priority for the England number three at the moment.
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Chris Baker: Everyone moans about run-rate, but I can watch blokes smash 6s whenever I like in limited overs. This is pure test cricket!
Ayelet H Lushkov: Purist stuff in Headingley. Stay in, lads!
Jonathan Jackson: Here's hoping we don't lose another wicket this evening, because as a Villa fan, Bell's mind is going to be elsewhere!
Eng 182-1 (trail by 168)
A conga line of Jesuses cavort their way down the steps of the Western terrace as the sun begins to fade in the Headingley evening. Ballance finally gets off the mark after 17 scoreless deliveries, much to the delight of the well-refreshed messiahs.
"Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance have batted together 10 times in first class cricket and are averaging 66 as a pair together."
Eng 180-1 (Southee 19-3-50-0)
Southee is hanging the ball out well wide of off stump, trying to tempt Adam Lyth, within sight of his first Test ton, to play a rash shot. Lyth's not having any of it though, and is content to just nudge a single off his hips when Southee straightens up. An excellent piece of fielding by Henry at mid-on keeps Gary Ballance pinned on 0.
Eng 179-1 (Lyth 92, Ballance 0)
Trent Boult sends down a menacing maiden to Gary Ballance. The number three is still stuck on 0 after 14 deliveries. England are treading in quicksand - just three runs off the last seven overs.
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Stuart Mitchell: I can only imagine that Ravi thought that was sliding down leg, it was absolutely plumb though, good foundation laid for England.
Richie Macca: Really poor umpiring, there. Looked out live, so not sure how he couldn't give it? Thank god we have DRS!
Stephen Byrom: Any budding umpires out there, umpire Ravi is showing how not to do it!! Absolutely clueless.
Eng 179-1 (trail by 171)
New Zealand scent blood here. They have a man waiting in the nervous nineties for this first Test century at one end, and a new batsman coming off a couple of low scores at the other. Tim Southee is tearing in with renewed vigour, and he nearly strikes with an absolute jaffa that hoops back in and beats the bat of Lyth.
"Lyth is a relatively late developer who has got there by weight of runs. He made his mark for Yorkshire as a dasher and what I think has happened over the fast years is that his game has become more measured."
Eng 179-1 (Boult 17-3-51-0)
Yes, as we suspected, New Zealand waste no time in bringing back Trent Boult, a man who will have been haunting the dreams of Gary Ballance since dismissing him twice the Lord's Test. Four slips waiting ravenously in the cordon, and they are so nearly thrown a scrap when Ballance is millimetres away from edging a sharply straightening delivery. He remains scoreless from eight balls.
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Seb Gillot: Lyth has played on without dislodging the bails in the 90s looking for his first test 100, just as Strauss did vs NZ in 2004.
Eng 178-1 (Lyth 91, Ballance 0)
So Gary Ballance is the new man. He had a couple of low scores at Lord's, he's looking for redemption here. Will New Zealand be tempted to bring back his nemesis Trent Boult? Lyth adds a single off Southee.
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Sam Rosser: How has he given that not out? Shocking umpire!
Matt Chapman: Another awful decision from umpire Ravi in this test - looked absolutely plumb on live TV.
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Cook lbw b Craig 75 (Eng 177-1)
England's mammoth opening stand is finally brought to an end. The DRS shows the ball pitched on middle stump and was going straight on. Technology rides to New Zealand's rescue, and boy did they need that. Excellent breakthrough for Craig, who hadn't looked especially threatening until then but hung in there well.
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Alastair Cook is hit on the front pad attempting a sweep. The initial verdict is not out, but New Zealand want another look...
Eng 177-0 (trail by 173)
A puff of the cheeks from Adam Lyth as he aims a wild swish at a hooping inswinger from Tim Southee. And then he gets a real reprieve! He's a touch late on a defensive push and the ball bounces at his feet and backspins onto the stumps, but the bails don't move. Something tells me these nineties are going to be nervous for the Yorkshire opener...
Record-breaking Cook
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Nicholas Cooper: Huge admiration for Cook, a lot of unnecessary criticism and his record is second to none. Leadership at the highest level.
bROCKerz: Is Alastair Cook not just the best proof that form is temporary and class is permanent?
Eng 177-0 (Lyth 90, Cook 75)
Lyth moves into the 90s with a steered single to cover.
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Alex in Leicester: Noticed how short England's surnames are. 57 letters in total. Very economical. NZ - 72. Are we the 'shortest' team ever?
Eng 176-0 (Southee 15-1-48-0)
Lyth adds a single, before Cook - increasingly deep in his bunker - blocks out the rest of Southee's over.
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But Alastair Cook is home safely. Ran his bat in nicely. Relief for the England captain.
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Now, is this the breakthrough New Zealand have been waiting for? McCullum has thrown down the timbers...
Eng 174-0 (trail by 176)
England continue their slow-paced accumulation, Cook and Lyth adding a single apiece off the increasingly hopeless-looking spin of Craig.
Taking lessons from cricketers
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Kate in London: I was taught Biology at GCSE by the legend Chris Tavare - lessons were slow and methodical!
Zoe: Chris Tavare taught me Biology after his playing career ended. He got a fair amount of stick for his batting style. Good man, great tache.
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Eng 172-0 (Lyth 87, Cook 73)
How do you get Alastair Cook out when he's in this mood? You can't bore him out, and you can't play on his ego by sending down a few juicy ones outside the off stump. You have to make him play, but get too straight and he'll simply nudge you to leg, as he does to Tim Southee again. Lyth then flicks him down to fine leg for four.
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Charlie Rhodes: Whilst Cook and Lyth are batting very well, I feel under 3 an over isn't quite proactive enough.
Andy Hawkes: The pace that England are scoring today proves Lord's was a one off and not a change in philosophy unfortunately.
George Tunstall: Saracens are scoring faster than the England team at the moment.
Eng 166-0 (Craig 12-6-18-0)
Mark Craig has a lush beard to rival his predecessor as New Zealand's spinner, Daniel Vettori but sadly, he doesn't appear to possess any of the same sorcery in his fingers. It's all too easy for Cook and Lyth to block and nudge their way through another over.
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Ian Bradley: Say it quietly, the search for Strauss successor may be over, Adam Lyth exuding class.
Jeffrey Yeung: I hope Lyth gets a big score in his own backyard, and gives him more confidence to show what he can do as opener(need for Ashes)
Eng 164-0 (trail by 186)
Tim Southee takes the ball at the other end. Adam Lyth, who gets nicely side-on to the ball off the back foot, pockets the first runs of the evening with a single to cover.
Eng 163-0 (Lyth 80, Cook 71)
Mark Craig, in his sunglasses, opens the bowling for New Zealand. Cook continues his simple method: block the straight ones, leave the ones outside off. A maiden ensues.
Taking lessons from cricketers' relatives
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Rob Stileman: Not a parent but a brother. Gary Butcher (brother of Mark) taught at my school. Good coach and a good man.
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Thank you Mitch. Smiles on the New Zealand faces as they trot down the dressing-room steps, but they have plenty of graft ahead of them...
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And after an entertaining, and may I stress wicketless middle session, it's over to James Gheerbrant to talk you through the last 38 overs of the day. No pressure, James...
"I don't think we talk enough in English sport about what Alastair Cook's talent really is: stubbornness, concentration, the ability to have a real strong gameplan. What's he got in abundance is that inward talent - strength, character - more so than anyone else I played with. Talent comes from within, and there are many ways of producing good performances."
Record-breaking Cook
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Benjamin: When Ali Cook is near his best we can play any team and never lose. When Ali Cook and Jimmy are near their best we can beat all.
Bedford School head of music Andrew Morris on TMS: "He was a good musician. He had a natural sense of phrase. He understood the music he was performing, particularly as a pianist. His experience as a St Paul's chorister must have given him that power of concentration, no room for the wrong notes, no room for the right notes at the wrong time and I am sure that helped him in his sport."
Bedford School cricket coach and former England batsman Derek Randall on TMS: "You can imagine as a cricket coach, to have the pleasure of working with somebody like Alastair Cook is very special. The first time I saw him on the bowling machine, I couldn't believe the balance and timing he had. He's a lovely lad, a very special boy."
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Nick Brett: Somehow Cook still gets criticism! A phenomenal individual record and has led the side to historic wins abroad. All time great.
Stewart Mills: These guys complaining that Cook scores too slowly have NO idea about the role of an opening Test batsman.
Joel Fentem: If you think Alastair Cook scores too slowly then you don't understand Test cricket.
Bedford School director of sport Guy Fletcher on TMS: "He turned up as a slightly frail 14-year-old, but we could see he had an immense amount of talent. He was also a very talented squash player and played fly-half in rugby. We're immensely proud as a school to see him as England captain."
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"England will be in comfortable frame of mind. Cook and Lyth have driven well, they've cut well, they've punched off the back foot well. The batsmen have had the odd discomfort but generally they've been very well in control. Batting has looked benign."
Kane Williamson, who will have bowled here a few times for Yorkshire (before he was collared by the ICC for an illegal bowling action), is on for an over of part-time off-spin before the tea interval - and after a single of Cook, a very part-time half-tracker is despatched to the extra cover boundary by Lyth.
England's session - with their openers still together, and another piece in place for the Ashes (an Adam Lyth-shaped piece slotting into the opener's role).
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Phil Acheson: I was taught French by Bob Willis's brother in 1983. Bob was the England captain in Australia on the 1982-3 Ashes tour. He brought Bob to the school and he signed some of my cricket books.
Peter Whipps: I was taught maths by Mike Brearley's father - Mike was a contemporary pupil at the same school.
Eng 158-0 (Lyth 76*, Cook 70*)
A couple of singles banish any pessimistic thoughts of a follow-on, while Boult pings a delivery down the leg side which is signalled as four byes. I'm not sure if keeper Luke Ronchi has any French ancestry, as he gives a very Gallic shrug as if to say "how was I supposed to stop that?" The singles keep flowing, and England have nearly made it to the interval.
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"At this ground you look up rather than down. When the skies are clear and the sun in shining, the ball stops swinging."
Eng 150-0
After a single from Lyth, Cook drills Craig for four through the covers towards the White Rose Stand (the artist formerly known as the Western Terrace), that's the 150 partnership. Time for two, or possibly three more before tea?
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Graeme Williams: I was taught maths by Graeme Swann's dad. He was a brilliant teacher but terrifying too! A quality batsman himself.
Kesh in London: I was employed as a teacher by the mother of Adrian and Robert Rollins, Marva Rollins. Adrian had a long county career and Robert played for England Lions. Topically, Adrian is now a maths and deputy headteacher.
Eng 147-0 (47 overs)
Cook edges Boult for four past second slip, while a more full-blooded stroke brings him two to Henry on the cover boundary. England trail by 205.
"I don't think it's without little moments to keep New Zealand's bowlers interested. They've beaten the bat a couple of times. But England are batting very well - Cook has evolved so he hardly plays the ball outside off stump at all."
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Sky statistician Richard Isaacs: First time since Feb 1914 that both leading Test run & wicket taker in same game for England - Jack Hobbs and Sydney Barnes.
Eng 139-0
Craig's previously excellent figures take a dent as Lyth helps himself to a three through mid-wicket. He's racing ahead of Cook, who moves to 58 with a single. Tea coming up on the horizon - at 15:40 BST - with a long final session to come.
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Ben Mummery: Cook has batted for England for more minutes than Boycott - didn't think that was possible!
Liam: He's a good player but he scores too slowly, that's what puts people off.
Eng 135-0 (Lyth 70*, Cook 57*)
Boult takes a tumble as Lyth whacks a four back past the bowler, before guiding a three off his legs - Matt Henry makes a good run-saving stop at long leg, pushing the ball back before tumbling over the rope himself. England enjoying themselves too.
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Tom Watkins: Alastair Cook's mother was my chemistry teacher for three years from 2005-7. For one chemistry test, she promised person with the highest mark would be awarded with a signed Cook ODI shirt. Never worked so hard on a science-related subject in my life.
Actually, I was taught maths by Paul Terry's mother for a year. Anyone else been taught by a current or former Test batsman's mother?
Eng 128-0 (Craig 8-5-7-0)
Craig, having only conceded a miserly seven runs in his first seven overs, continues bowling round the wicket to the two left-handers - and a maiden to Cook make his figures look even better. Geoffrey Boycott may have been disparaging about Craig's abilities for the last two Tests, but he's been right on the money for the Black Caps so far today.
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Marko Koning: Cook is the medicine. When he is doing well, England is doing well. Just in time for the Ashes. Bring it on!
Eng 128-0
New Zealand need to put the brakes on here, with four front-line bowlers they've not got a lot of options so turn back to their premier bowler Trent Boult at the Football Stand End. He brings them some control with five dot balls, although Lyth manages to steer the last delivery through the covers for his ninth four.
There's five ODIs and a T20 international for New Zealand to get through after this Test, they'll be home before the end of June and then have a month off before heading to South Africa in early to mid-August.
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Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen: "I was quoted a few years back saying could break Sachin's record. At the age of 30, he still has a chance! Quite brilliant batsman! Well done, AC!"
Eng 124-0 (Lyth 59*, Cook 57*)
Suddenly the shackles appear to be off as Craig lets one go too short and Cook remorselessly square-cuts him for four. Just 27 more needed for England to avoid the follow-on (he said with his tongue firmly in his cheek).
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David Brooks: I think we can do better with bowling wicketkeepers (see 13:59). How about George Brown, the great Hampshire all-rounder who scored 18,000 runs and took around 600 wickets for them with fast-medium but who kept wicket when he played for England. And then there's the great Kiwi John Reid, a true all-rounder who also kept wicket in tests. I'd also add Hanif Mommamad's leg-spin. The more difficult question is who keeps wicket for this team?
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Eng 120-0
A flashing four, sliced over the slips, brings Alastair Cook his 41st Test fifty - and as I mentioned, his fifth score in excess of 50 in his last seven Test innings. A single brings Lyth on strike, it's hearts-in-mouths time for the Yorkshire crowd as their opening batsman nearly pops a return catch to Henry but it's just too low for the big Canterbury seamer and bounces just in front of his grasp as he tumbles onto the wicket. Reprieved, Lyth helps himself to a two before an assured square-driven four takes him to 59.
"Good shot from Lyth to get your first fifty in Tests. Even when he scored seven and 12 at Lord's, he looked like a player, he looked controlled, he looked like he had a game that would match up well to Test match cricket."
Eng 108-0
Henry strays down the leg side and the ball disappears past Ronchi for four byes. Lyth prods the ball towards short mid-wicket and initially sets off for a single before thinking better of it. A maiden over, and the crowd is getting a little restless, which may have something to do with the amount of alcohol consumed so far. We have another 49 overs scheduled to be bowled today.
"This is England's first century opening stand in a home Test since Birmingham in 2011 when Cook and Strauss added 186 against India."
Cook went on to get 294 in that game.
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Eng 104-0 (Lyth 53*, Cook 47*)
Now it's Cook just three runs shy of a Test fifty - though in his case, it would be his 41st (with 27 centuries also in the bank). It would also be his fifth score in excess of 50 in seven Test innings. But for now, he's on the defensive as Craig (5-4-2-0) spins down another maiden.
"For the team issues, Adam Lyth scoring runs today is massive. He is playing so well and looking so calm, looking controlled. All the jigsaw puzzle pieces are looking more in place than they did a just a couple of weeks ago."
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Eng 104-0
Cook breaks the run of maidens as he cuts Henry to the cover point boundary for four. A single draws him level with Adam Lyth on 47 - and that's the cue for the Yorkshire left-hander to work a four off his legs to bring up his maiden Test fifty in only his third international innings. It's also the century stand, so smiles all round for the England fans. Having been marooned on 47 for a while, he's shuttling along nicely now with another two through point.
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Luke in Southend: As a proud(ish) Essex Man, it's good to know that my much maligned county will soon be synonymous with both slippery men who sell cars with questionable back histories and classy Test batsmen with unquestionable batting pedigrees.
Dan in Hertfordshire: What's better, Cook overtaking Gooch or Jimmy reaching the 400 club? And whose attributes would you prefer to have between the two men? I would have to say Jimmy for both, although I'd rather have Cook's personality.
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Eng 93-0
Craig, bowling in his sunglasses, keeps Lyth tied down again, there's momentary excitement among the fielders when the Yorkshire opener sweeps and misses, but the ball was clearly disappearing well down the leg side. Maiden, the third in succession and the fourth in five overs.
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England 93-0 (35 overs)
Batsmen: Lyth 47*, Cook 42*
Bowling figures: Boult 12-3-29-0, Southee 12-1-39-0, Henry 8-2-21-0, Craig 3-2-2-0.
New Zealand 350 all out (Ronchi 88, Latham 84, Broad 5-109)
"The most amazing thing about Alastair Cook's record is that he's only 30 years of age."
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Bryan Waddle adds: "There's a good five or six years left in his game."
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Eng 93-0
McCullum is still carefully directing his fielders as a bye advances the score - apart from that last four from Cook, we've had a good couple of dozen dot balls in the last four overs. Another maiden - with the bye not counting against the bowler - and the players have earned some drinks.
"This is a nice steady organised partnership. The batsmen are in control of proceedings. New Zealand are finding very little encouragement in good batting conditions."
Eng 92-0
Cook carefully plays out another maiden from Craig. With both batsmen approaching a half century, do the "nervous nineties" have a forties equivalent? Fearsome forties?
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Dan Gaylor: For all his supposed captaincy flaws Cook's tenacity, bloody mindedness, and dedication is second to none... a true great opener and I think it's only in time after he's retired people, will truly appreciate how special this guy truly is!
Sean in Derby: My favourite Cook memory has to be five years ago. I was bed ridden with a nasty bout of tonsillitis. Cook was batting to save his Test career against Pakistan at the Oval. His 110 that day did more to clear the infection than any dose of TCP that my mother had prescribed!
Aussie Fawlty: Poms who live down under will never forget his 766 runs at 127.66 in the 2010-11 Ashes series. May history repeat itself in the next few months.
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Eng 92-0 (Lyth 47*, Cook 42*)
Cook moves into the forties, thrashing a Henry full toss for four past the bowler. Boult, now patrolling the boundary, is rapidly signing autographs between deliveries - but every time he turns back to the crowd, there are around 20 youngsters thrusting miniature bats in his direction for him to sign.
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"One chap has come dressed as the Queen, complete with mask. Every time he gets up to get a pint/go to the loo/meet the Prime Minister, the Western Terrace belts out the national anthem. Rousing."
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Eng 87-0
In fact, it's a double change as the bearded Mark Craig is on to bowl some off-spin from the Kirkstall Lane End, having sent down that solitary over before lunch. Lyth, perhaps sensing the approach of that maiden fifty, plays out a maiden.
"I think New Zealand have bowled pretty well - Southee has improved from the first Test - but the pitch has flattened out and England are sitting pretty."
Eng 87-0 (Lyth 47*, Cook 38*)
A change of bowling as Boult is replaced by third seamer Matt Henry - as we've observed before, New Zealand don't have the greatest of bowling options (four front-line bowlers, one part-time spinner, a couple of non-bowling batsmen and four wicketkeepers). A bouncer to Lyth is deemed an aerial wide, while a single takes him to 47.
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"I never understand the theory that a Mexican wave means the crowd aren't interested in the cricket. The Headingley crowd knew exactly what was going on, halting a wave to acclaim Cook with sustained applause. A banner was unfurled and play was slightly delayed as the appreciation continued. Cook raised his bat a couple of times, but the helmet stayed on. Understated, more work to do."
Eng 85-0
Vintage Cook, cracking Southee to the same point boundary for another four, while Southee has a touch of the Steven Finn (2010 model), falling over after his delivery stride.
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Dave Wilson: Whether you like him as captain or not, there's no doubting that Cook is a world class Test opening batsman, England's best ever.
Hugh Moxon: Walking several miles from the stadium but can still hear Headingley erupt as Cook makes history. Way to silence the doubters!
Matt Chapman: Congratulations Cook. Keep this form up and score a shed full against Australia in the summer please.
"Graham Gooch has been England's leading run scorer for 7,952 days or almost 22 years. Only two players have been England's leading run-scorer for longer than that: Jack Hobbs and Wally Hammond."
Eng 81-0 (Lyth 46*, Cook 34*)
As the crowd settles down, a wide from Boult advances the score, while Lyth prods a single towards third man. Cook, with those record shackles broken, knocks a single off his legs.
Meanwhile, we'd like to hear from you - forget the captaincy debate for a while, as an opening batsman, where does Alastair Cook rank among England opening batsmen you've seen?And what are your fondest memories of his batting career? (NB if you saw Jack Hobbs play and are able to use the internet, I take my hat off to you!)
"I don't think it's a big milestone in his life. What's more important to him is the hundreds he's got, the matches he's won, and the fact that he's now back in his best form. I'm sure not playing one-day cricket has helped him."
"The standing ovation he is getting around Headingley just tells you the ovation and respect the England supporters have for their captain. That is a special moment for a man who has ridden all manner of ups and downs."
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Eng 78-0
Cook steers Southee through cover point for four - he's done it! Alastair Cook becomes England's highest Test run-scorer with 8,902 runs, ahead of Graham Gooch's 8,900.
A warm ovation from the stands at Headingley, while a large red banner is unfurled, featuring the hashtag #headchef - well done, Cookie. All the more remarkably, in less than 10 years since his debut, he's played nearly as many Tests (114) as Gooch did in a 20-year international career.
"He's like Elizabeth Taylor, Alastair Cook - he's been through a few partners."
Adam Lyth is Cook's ninth opening partner in Tests, after Strauss, Vaughan, Carberry, Trott, Pietersen, Compton, Root and Robson.
Eng 74-0 (27 overs)
Lyth leg-glances Boult for four - whisper it quietly, never mind Cook-watch, his partner is only five away from a maiden Test fifty. You wait for Headingley to erupt for one of their own.
"He's a terrific fielder McCullum, very athletic. Not all wicketkeepers have traditionally been good fielders but he is superb."
Eng 70-0
Cook squeezes Southee through extra cover for a single - up to 8,898, two behind Gooch. Lyth defends before examining the tape-repair-job on his bat between deliveries. Southee comes round the wicket, but Lyth is not flustered by the change of angle and confidently flicks a three off his legs. Now he gets umpire Tucker to have a look as his bat-tape. (Bat-tape - sounds like something Batman might have in his utility belt if he came to a match).
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Jack Blackburn: I've decided to watch the cricket until Cook breaks this record. He needs 5 runs. Could take one minute. Could take 100.
Jack Ewins: Cook to reach his milestone with a six over cow corner? Perhaps not.
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"There's someone waving a Mexico flag in the Western Terrace. I think I can make out some sombreros, but bringing a flag is a whole new level of commitment. As New Zealand take time over the field, one impatient Yorkshireman shouts for them to 'get on with it'."
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Eng 66-0 (Boult 10-3-22-0)
Boult to Lyth, uneventful maiden over, after which the Yorkshire left-hander has to get his bat repaired with some tape by the 12th man.
And on the "most keepers in a Test XI" question, Martin Jones (12:32) suggested the Sri Lankan quintet of Dilshan, K Silva, Sangakkara, Chandimal and P Jayawardene - but the ever-meticulous Andrew Samson has checked and they've never all played in the same international match (Test, ODI or T20). So it's just those five Zimbabweans (12:36) that Andrew found earlier.
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Michael Fordham (history teacher, taking a break from marking A-Level essays…): Re: beer and mead (13:46). Beer most certainly was drunk during the middle ages by people from all social classes, including knights.
Consider myself admonished!
Eng 66-0 (Lyth 38*, Cook 28*)
Lyth firmly cuts Southee for three, while a Cook single cranks the rotors around to 8,897, three behind Goochie. Lyth gets up on one foot to force a single to fine leg as the man with a diabolical 666 on his shirt takes England to 66-0.
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Adam: If you need bowling wicketkeepers, how about Australia's Tim Zoehrer, who bowled very respectable leggies? Going back a bit further, AC Smith of Warwickshire and England, who took 131 first-class wickets at 23.46 with his medium pacers.
Another Warwickshire keeper, Geoff Humpage, regularly bowled medium pace in the Sunday League in the early 1980s.
Eng 61-0
Boult, from the Football Stand End, finds Cook in cautious mode, defending assuredly as Boult slants the ball towards his pads. A maiden over, before play is held up while McCullum has to take his left boot off before pulling a protective strapping up over his knee.
"It's been old-fashioned Test cricket since England have been batting. Lyth's looking for every run-scoring opportunity, but the bowlers have been more or less on target."
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Eng 61-0 (Lyth 34*, Cook 27*)
Tim Southee back into the attack after that one over of pre-prandial spin from Craig. Lyth straight-drives, Cook has to get out of the way and they complete a well-run two as captain Brendon McCullum gives chase to the boundary.
Meanwhile, Kiwi keeper Luke Ronchi takes a painful blow on his right hand leaping to take one down the leg side, and this could be a dangerous situation for New Zealand. They only have another three recognised wicketkeepers in their XI...
"The men that matter will have been impressed by Lyth in this innings. He's looked compact, he's left the ball well, and his instincts are positive and aggressive."
Eng 59-0
Warm applause from the Yorkie crowd as Lyth gets England under way after the interval with a fluent cut for four. A single off the fifth ball of the left-armer's over gives Cook only one ball to have a bash at the record... and he defends it, as some mediaeval knights, carrying a few flagons of beer (it should be mead if they're being historically accurate), take their seats after lunch.
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Trent Boult to take the opening over to Adam Lyth. But stand by on Cook-watch. (Does a watched Cook ever boil?)
Comedian and TV presenter Dom Joly on Test Match Special: "I once pushed a pram down some stairs and I am not proud of it and the Guardian said it was a marvellous reworking of Eisenstein's Potemkin, no it wasn't, it was just a stupid joke."
I'm sure you'll be able to listen again to the Dom Joly interview via the TMS podcast page very soon... the Michael Parkinson interview from yesterday is already there.
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Thanks, James. I wonder how Captain Cook has spent the lunch interval - I know how he's said he doesn't notice milestones, but I can't believe he's not aware that at the moment he's on 8,896 Test runs - just four behind his friend and lifelong mentor Graham Gooch's 8,900 at the top of the England run-scoring charts. (For the purposes of comparison, Goochie is currently 13th in the all-time list for all countries, 365 behind 12th-placed Graeme Smith.
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Right, the players are coming back out, time for me to hand over to Mark Mitchener...
Comedian and TV presenter Dom Joly on Test Match Special: "I think if there was a real problem with Alastair Cook you would sense that, but I don't think there's much dissension. I'm all for Alastair Cook, even though I don't think he makes the greatest captaincy choices."
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Martin, Hull: If it becomes another talking point of whether Lyth should be selected for the Ashes series I would merely point out that had the England setup shown a modicum of common sense, the topic of conversation may not be needed. It was a stupid thing to have Trott opening when we had Lyth in the wings. Lyth should have played all three Tests against West Indies in April.
Comedian and TV presenter Dom Joly on Test Match Special: "If money was no option, I would be the Mick Jagger of the cricket world. I would just cruise the Caribbean in my own boat watching football and cricket."
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BBC Pakistan correspondent Shaimaa Khalil: "The Pakistani cricket authorities say Sunday's third and final one-day international against Zimbabwe will go ahead despite an explosion close to the stadium where the two teams were playing on Friday. The police initially claimed the explosion had been caused by an electric transformer. Soon after, the Information Minister confirmed it was a suicide attack in which a police officer died, and six others wounded, when he tried to stop the bomber."
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Mike Bell, Ashford: Luke Ronchi isn't the only Luke ever to play Test cricket. I can clearly remember FS Trueman addressing several batters as "Luke Out".
Joan Wood: Can you explain why Fred Trueman's statue is in a Skipton car park and not Headingley?
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Chris: Yesterday I was thinking about this & wondered whether you could put together an XI made up entirely of wicketkeepers (both full time & part time) bearing in mind you need four or five that could bowl as well. My bowling wicketkeepers would be Dhoni, Trescothick, Dravid, AB de Villiers & Kieswetter.
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Harry Woolley: On Monday everyone was praising Cook's captaincy. Oh how fickle England supporters can be...
Benjamin: That was an exhibition of English opening batting. Cook leaving (and thus batting) as well as I have ever seen him do so.
The Cookie Monsters are out in full force today.
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Well, we thought this would be a good day for batting, and it's proved that way so far.
New Zealand, with two wickets left, began in enterprising fashion with the bat, adding 53 runs in a wildly entertaining slog-fest, before Stuart Broad wrapped up the innings and completed his 13th Test five-for.
With a total of 350 on the board, New Zealand would have had high hopes of putting England under pressure with the ball, but England's openers began in excellent fashion, mixing resolute defence with some well-judged shots.
New Zealand didn't bowl badly, but they just couldn't tempt the batsmen into a rash shot, and Alastair Cook is now just five runs short of beating Graham Gooch's all-time England Test run-scoring record.
"It's been really good cricket - New Zealand continued their enterprising batting early on. England were poor with the ball, but their batting's been excellent. New Zealand have been probing away on off stump, but Lyth and Cook have shown some good application."
Lunch - Eng 54-0 (trail by 296)
Spinner Mark Craig is going to bowl the final over before lunch. Cook almost gives it away with a rather loose swish at one outside off, but he survives the rest, and England are unbloodied at lunch. Excellent work from the openers.
"A good start by this pair, they've been very watchful against some good bowling."
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Kofi in London: Just finished my physics degree yesterday so should really be on the job hunt but I'm going to make the more grown up decision to lie in bed all day listening to TMS - if only I could land a job as a full time "expert" listener.
Eng 52-0 (Lyth 26, Cook 26)
Lyth brings up the England 50 with a deft glide down to the third-man boundary. Glee on the faces of those in the front-row seats as three New Zealand fielders chase the ball vainly to the fence.
"It's been some good bowling from New Zealand, on this surface you just need to try to hit off stump as much as you can. England will know there will be opportunities later in the day. Adam Lyth needs to hang in there as sometimes his downfall has been his patience."
Eng 46-0 (Henry 5-1-15-0)
Cook works one from off stump through wide mid-on, it's hauled in just short of the fence but brings England three. Five minutes to go to lunch, England's openers closing in on the end of a job very well done.
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Nick Harrison: Love that we never give credit to the other team, NZ swung their willow at the end, this week it worked, last week we won!
Rachel T: Alastair Cook really does run like Woody in Toy Story. Graeme Swann was spot on with that.
Jonny D tudor: Just making a nice brew and the tea bag split, must be Cook's fault. Can be no other reason.
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Eng 42-0 (trail by 308)
Alastair Cook record watch: he needs 31 to draw level with Graham Gooch as England's all-time leading run-scorer in Test cricket. He's currently nine away, but at the slightly ponderous rate that England are currently batting, he may not get there before lunch. New Zealand trying to put the squeeze on Adam Lyth, and it almost works when he chips one just short of short mid-wicket.
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lREDACTEDl: England's opening a bit of a snooze-fest so far compared to NZ's gung-ho style of play. Effective though.
Simon Parker: Cook and Lyth doing a good job. Forget the runs. 15 overs of the new ball and no wickets.
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Eng 38-0 (Lyth 16, Cook 22)
Don't bowl there to Alastair Cook - he plays short-pitched bowling with the ease of a man in his favourite armchair swatting away a bluebottle with the Sunday newspaper. He hammers an inadvisable Henry delivery to the fence. Bowl there to him - full, on off stump, and Cook edges it just short of Kane Williamson at third slip.
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"Already very partisan on the Western Terrace, ironic cheers coming with every New Zealand appeal that is turned down. If they're this rowdy now, what will it be like come tea time? I'm going to get myself in there, maybe to meet an air hostess. Or a duck. Or one of the Muppets."
"Alastair Cook has now scored 200 runs off Tim Southee's bowling in Test cricket, and Southee is yet to get him out."
Eng 32-0 (Southee 5-1-10-0)
A modicum of alarm in a pretty unruffled session for England as McCullum shies at the stumps with Cook scampering through for a tight single. Southee not looking too dangerous at the moment.
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J Cunningham: Re: 12:36 - I'm guessing Zimbabwe didn't try five wicketkeepers again after losing by an innings and 301 runs?
They certainly didn't try poor old Forster Mutizwa again - scandalously, it was his only Test. So far...
Eng 31-0 (trail by 319)
England's opening batsmen are doing their bit to reassert the traditional virtues of Test cricket after the wham-bam pyrotechnics of the New Zealand innings. Block, block, nudge, block, block, dab. Another good over goes unrewarded from Matt Henry.
"I'll be interested to see if New Zealand can hang in there, bowling this line and length. If they can, they'll create chances. Henry's first over was the best over of the match, very consistent."
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Barney, Jersey: Nothing against Lyth or Ballance but I really think that we need an aggressor in the top three, preferably a right hander. Alex Hales, for me, should be opening in the Ashes.
Ben, Hindon: Crazy talk re: Root. Why take your best batter and give him pressure of captaincy? Let the best player play. It's this crazy thinking that did for Botham, Flintoff and set in motion the whole KP disaster!
Eng 30-0 (Lyth 16, Cook 14)
It's not happening for Trent Boult. He's bowling a tight line and getting a bit of movement but he just can't draw a rash shot from this England pair. His seventh over passes without incident, and that could be the end of his spell.
Imogen: Nice to see Cook's fans (I like to call us the Cookie Monsters) defending Cook - he seems to be blamed for everything these days.
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Eng 29-0 (Henry 2-1-4-0)
Nice shot from Lyth, playing a back-of-a-length delivery from Henry right under his eyes and gliding it down to the third-man boundary. Not much happening for New Zealand at the moment, England are blunting their new-ball spearhead well.
"Boult didn't appeal there. He joined in at the end for the sake of it. A good decision by the umpire."
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Martin Jones: Four keepers in a Test XI isn't a record. I believe Sri Lanka played recently with the following in the team: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kaushal Silva, Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal and Prasanna Jayawardene. Don't know if Andrew can do better?
Eng 25-0 (trail by 325)
A yelp of frustration from Trent Boult as Alastair Cook flicks him down to the fine-leg boundary. He responds superbly though, cutting the England skipper in half with one that pitches on off and straightens. There's a decent appeal, but McCullum opts against a review, and wisely - replays show the ball flicked the back leg. Another big appeal as Boult raps Cook on the front pad, but there was a little inside edge there. Good over though.
"In this bowling attack, Boult bowled well at Lord's, then you've got Southee, Henry is full of potential but pretty raw, and the off-spin of Craig who is liable to leak runs. McCullum doesn't have many options. Yet there's four wicketkeepers in the team."
Eng 21-0 (Lyth 12, Cook 9)
Brendon McCullum makes his first bowling change and summons Matt Henry into the attack. Henry bowled pretty well on debut at Lord's and his first two balls are superb, zipping past Lyth's outside edge. Lyth blocks out the rest of the over.
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Darren Hawkins: I wish people would stop saying Root is too young for the captaincy, he's 25! Graeme Smith was 21 that didn't turn out too badly.
Jack Mendel: Stuart Broad should be grateful to the Kiwi tail-enders. I mean, this might be the only time he goes past 100 runs again.
Eng 21-0 (Boult 5-1-12-0)
This is a resolute start by England's openers, leaving the away-swinging delivery well outside off stump. Lyth retains the strike by flicking a single off his pads off the final ball of the over.
"The New Zealand innings was the first time four men have scored at more than a run a ball in a Test innings - McCullum (41 from 28), Ronchi (88 from 70), Henry (27 from 21) and Boult (15 from 11)."
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Daniel Rajan: Death, taxes and Alastair Cook being slaughtered as soon as anything goes wrong.
We're presuming that's the answer to the question "what are the three certainties of life"?
Eng 20-0 (trail by 330)
Luke Ronchi is the man with the gloves for New Zealand on his Test debut. Southee continues the thankless task of trying to draw a loose stroke from Cook, but he's not managing it at the moment - the England captain simply blocks out a maiden.
"It's a big game for Adam Lyth. He just needs one big score, and he'll start the Ashes series. Two failures here, and there will be a long, agonising debate. It's the sixth opening partnership England have tried since Andrew Strauss retired."
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Kesh Chauhan: I wish everyone would stop slating Cook as captain. He may not be the best but who else can take the reins? Root is not a viable alternative it's too early!
Eng 20-0 (Lyth 11, Cook 9)
Oh goodness me, that really was close - Boult just zipping one millimetres past Lyth's off stump. Lyth responds well with a firm push through the covers that runs away to the fence. Nicely timed. His next shot is loose though, driving airily at a wide one from Boult. Dangerous.
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BBC Sport's Tim Oscroft at Headingley: A gang of air stewardesses seem to have mistaken Headingley for Leeds Bradford airport...
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Harry in Bristol: Refusing to listen to TMS as I'm in the middle of my finals and the last Test cost me a few marks... Just hope I don't see any wicket alerts pop up now England are in.
Cook's judgment looks really good here. He shoulders arms to a ball from Southee that zips over the top of off stump. And with his next shot he eases Southee to the boundary with a lovely, bended-knee cover drive that even a commando-rolling Brendon McCullum can't stop.
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New Zealand's run-rate of 4.84 was the 12th fastest when a team has scored 350+ in an innings in Tests.
"I'd think England should be up with New Zealand by tonight. The pitch isn't doing much, that roller has helped."
Eng 12-0 (trail by 338)
Not too much late swing for New Zealand at the moment, a bit of early shape but none of the last-minute movement that really troubles batsmen. Trent Boult is just struggling to make Alastair Cook play at the moment, and when he does Cook just steers him to mid-off for a single.
Eng 10-0 (Lyth 6, Cook 4)
Brendon McCullum will chase balls with the unstinting alacrity of a border collie that's chewed its way through a packet of coffee beans. He saves four with a superb stop when Lyth drives handsomely down the ground.
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John, Worcestershire: We are in new Test match territory here. Boycott is talking about 200 being par on a wicket like this, but he is thinking in old money. The way NZ and the Aussies are playing Test matches like one-day cricket makes it very difficult to say what is a par score. The Test match norms are all in the melting pot. Can the English players rise to the challenge? I think so. This all has to be good for the public image of the Test format. Four or five days of entertainment. Having cricket on terrestrial or freeview satellite TV would also help to bring back the game's popularity. How many people out there would love to watch some of the game live on terrestrial TV, but don't feel like forking out for a monthly Sky Sports subscription? A great many, I suspect.
Eng 9-0
New Zealand's regular wicketkeeper BJ Watling is in the slips today due to a slight knee injury: no gloves for him, he'll have to make do with his bare hands. A maiden from Boult, with most of the deliveries left outside off by Cook.
"McCullum has altered the whole attitude of New Zealand cricket since he took over. A lot of the way a team plays comes from the captain - Michael Vaughan changed it with England, Mike Brearley was good, and look at how Imran Khan handled Pakistan when they were a bit of a rabble."
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David: next time somebody questions the flack Cook gets as captain, show them this 1/2 hour. No leadership no ideas & capped off by shouting left when the ball went right of the fielder.
Eng 9-0 (Lyth 5, Cook 4)
As expected, it's Tim Southee who takes the new cherry from the other end. Lyth, who looks to start busily, picks up a couple of twos, driving through the covers on both occasions.
"Broad is the leading wicket-taker in the series, with six at Lord's and five already here, but it was a strange five-for."
Eng 5-0
Lyth is off the mark immediately with a single into the covers. Boult's first ball to Cook is a beauty, pitching on off and just shaping away, but Cook shows excellent judgment to leave the ball with conviction. Boult then straightens up too much and Cook squeezes him off his pads for a four down to fine leg. There is movement on offer for Boult though.
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Adam Lyth to take strike to the first ball. Trent Boult to deliver it...
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"On the way to the ground I saw three guys dressed in yellow T-shirts, with red aprons and caps, as if they work at a fast food restaurant. I thought they were going to work, but it turns out that is their fancy dress for the day at the Test. Surely the essence of fancy dress is making it obvious that you're in fancy dress?"
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New Zealand huddle up. They will be desperate for early wickets here. Alastair Cook, in sight of the England all-time runs scorer's record, and Adam Lyth, who wouldn't mind a score of any sort, trot out to the middle. Big phase of the game coming up...
Richard Katz: Approach games like this for the rest of the summer and we'll be annihilated.
Darren Pickard: This is a very average England side carrying too many passengers!
Louise Fauduet: On Trevor Bayliss's must-coach list: how to bowl tail-enders out.
Innings review
Well, that looks a pretty decent score for New Zealand, and what will particularly please them, with rain around and victory needed to square the series, is that they've done it in double-quick time.
They got off to a dreadful start, collapsing to 2-2 and 68-3, but they fought back in typical New Zealand fashion, with debutant Luke Ronchi and Brendon McCullum bludgeoning some counter-attacking middle-order runs, while Tom Latham played the anchor role, compiling a cussed 84.
England looked to have wrested back a measure of control at the end of day one, picking up three quick wickets, but they surrendered it again in a rather mad morning.
Now though, the hard work begins for New Zealand, as they try to take 20 England wickets...
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Matt in Derby: Surely, with the ever demanding requirements on cricket as an entertainment in itself, there is a case to be made for NZ getting more than two Tests? They're well on the way to being THE draw in Test cricket under McCullum, who wouldn't want to watch this?
"It's Broad's third five-wicket haul at Headingley, but it's been very expensive. I think 200 was about par yesterday as it was overcast and murky, and two wickets went down just like that. But they didn't bowl as well as they could yesterday."
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A frustrating last-wicket stand is finally ended when Trent Boult skies one up in the air and Adam Lyth collects a simple catch at point. Stuart Broad collects one of the more bizarre five-fors, and England will have a bat.
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Mark Hefter: See those three wooden things stuck in the ground, try aiming at them please.
Jon Dunn: Don't think they've bowled one ball this morning that would have hit the stumps. Shocking performance so far.
Toby Mullins: This is where Cook's captaincy comes into question. He never deals with his bowlers when they are bowling badly.
NZ 350-9 (Craig 41, Boult 15)
Oh yes! Majestic from Craig, spoiling a potential maiden from Ben Stokes with a glorious back-foot punch to get four off the final ball of the over. Stokes boots the turf in anguish.
"This is some of the best baseball hitting in the history of this ground. You can't nudge and nurdle this bowling, but there's a stage where it becomes counter-productive."
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Benjamin: New Zealand don't do draws, and it is brilliant to watch. They deserve more than a two-match series.
Ed Mehen: As NZ are intent on playing in a one-day fashion why aren't England bowling in like fashion? Get it in the blockhole!
NZ 346-9
Farcical scenes as Adam Lyth on the boundary completely loses sight of another leg-side swat from Craig. Go right Adam, his team-mates yell, as the frantic Lyth assumes the posture of a man groping in the dark for a lightswitch. Warmer! Colder! It's no use as the ball races away to the boundary. Boult then ramps yet another short ball over the slips for one of the more subtle boundaries of the morning.
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"What on earth is going on? Stuart Broad is bowling to New Zealand's number 11 with five men on the boundary, four of them on the leg side. Is there something wrong with line and length? Have we confused Trent Boult with Brendon McCullum?"
"How long can you keep going with this attack? Number 11 in, bowl him out. Broad will probably feel he's got two wickets with this method. But sometimes you can get caught up in those methods."
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Denz: They're tail-enders - bowl at the stumps maybe?
Michael Shaw: What are we doing! Pitch the ball up and try and hit the stumps
Ben Walker: Morning session fireworks. What's wrong with yorkers and top of off stump?
NZ 337-9 (Stokes 16-4-66-1)
The average first innings score at Headingley in the last six Tests is 236, incidentally. Craig continues the rampage, carting Ben Stokes back over his head for a huge six.
"With number 11, I think you've got to try to get him out, not come round the wicket and bowl bouncers at him. England have lost their focus on what they should be doing. Why hasn't Anderson bowled this morning? He'd pitch it up, swing the ball and get them out."
NZ 328-9 (Craig 24, Boult 10)
Mark Craig has played second fiddle so far this morning, but no longer. Broad sends one down on a good length outside off and Craig mashes it over backward point. Trent Boult, with the butter-wouldn't-melt grin of a 12-year-old altar boy, then produces a stroke that an axeman would be proud of, brutally swatting a short ball to the mid-on boundary.
"I remember Tim Southee making his debut in that game at Napier [when Southee took 5-55 and scored 77 not out], Stuart Broad was playing too and I wrote at the time about how these two young cricketers could be playing against each other for many years to come. But both their batting has gone backwards since then."
NZ 317-9
So Trent Boult is the new man. He's partial to a few shots too, and after a textbook forward defensive to his first ball, he clubs his second through the off-side. New Zealand motoring here, even though the tank has almost run dry.
"There is no fast bowlers' union any more, but there is an area in the laws saying you should not bowl fast short-pitched deliveries at tail-end batsmen, so I was pleased to see the umpire step in there."
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Henry c Buttler c Broad 27 (NZ 310-9)
A wicket entirely in keeping with the tempo of this Test match so far. Henry bludgeons his second boundary of the day, a ginormous flat six in front of square leg, and then tries the same shot next ball and gets a tickle behind. Runs and wickets continuing to flow, and Broad in sight of his 13th Test five-for.
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NZ 304-8 (Craig 16, Henry 21)
Matt Henry is a bit late on a defensive stroke to the first ball of the day and nearly chops it onto his stumps. He then gets New Zealand up and running with a two to deep square leg, and brings up the New Zealand 300 with a spectacular stroke, giving himself room and walloping Stokes over mid-wicket for four. He tries the same shot next ball and gets one for it via a meaty top-edge into his helmet. That will have woken him up. Seven off the first over, New Zealand picking up where they left off.
"Chris Gayle's a great character, he's always very approachable. The only thing he's lacking is that deep, rumbling voice like a Roger Harper or a Clive Lloyd. For a tall man, he's got quite a high voice. I've heard there are some 'restricted view' tickets available today - it could be the best batting conditions of the match."
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We're almost ready to go. Matt Henry and Mark Craig at the crease, Ben Stokes with the ball. Will New Zealand continue to bat positively?
In his "other" persona as Somerset's chairman of cricket, reflecting on Chris Gayle's 92 for Somerset against Essex last night, after Gayle admitted he had not practised since coming to the UK, but instead "done some mental stuff":
"We like our players to do a little 'mental stuff'. There's a probability we would have sent Chris some 'data' on the Essex bowlers and he would have taken it on board! There are a handful of cricketers in the world who can put bums on seats, and I'm looking forward to seeing him at Taunton to see if he can clear those 'massive' boundaries!"
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BBC Weather's Louise Lear on TMS: "Could be a lot worse today - it will stay dry, though the cloud will build up and there's potential for some poor light by the end of the day. First thing tomorrow, it's going to be a wet start, so there may be a delayed start, with sunny spells and scattered showers in the afternoon. If you've got tickets for tomorrow, wrap up warm. Monday looks fine and bright."
"There's not really a stock bowler in this attack who can keep control. Ben Stokes was quite economical yesterday, but he's an up-and-at-em fourth seamer, not a holding fourth seamer, and Moeen Ali didn't bowl particularly well yesterday so the balance isn't quite right. Stuart Broad was bowling bouncers from round the wicket with three men out last night, and the Kiwis were still going after the ball. England almost got carried away with the excitement of the day."
England didn't bowl well - Agnew
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England may have taken eight wickets yesterday, but their bowling didn't impress BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew.
"England's problem was bowling too short, not full enough to get maximum assistance from the Headingley pitch," Agnew writes in his BBC Sport column.
"Even if England are committed to playing aggressive cricket, there has to be a time when they can slow the game down, bowl maidens, dry up the runs and they were unable to do that."
"New Zealand are placed OK, but not special. If England had bowled really well and caught their catches, they could have bowled them out for 200. Groundsmen have to produce a pitch which allows people to express themselves, they did it at Lord's and they've done it here."
New Zealand opener Tom Latham on Test Match Special: "To be eight down with nearly 300 on the board, I think we are in a reasonably good position. I think it's pretty even. It is not an easy wicket.
"Towards the end, I struggled a little bit, the lengths they bowled and the lines they bowled, were a lot better after tea. I felt like a cat, there were a few lives there, but that's cricket."
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Anderson may have stolen the headlines with his milestone wicket, but Day One belonged to a man with 103 fewer Test caps: New Zealand wicket-keeper Luke Ronchi. At 34, he's had to wait longer than most for his Test debut, but boy did he make the most of it.
The former Australian international played a brilliantly refreshing innings of 88 off just 70 balls, mixing superb timing with outrageous panache.
He was eventually dismissed twelve runs short of what would have probably been the fastest ever century on Test debut, with Shikhar Dhawan's mark of 85 balls firmly in his sights.
"It was exciting cricket yesterday - in the six days of the series so far, you've got two teams playing with an aggressive nature, especially New Zealand and their captain. After a nought in the second innings, he comes out and hits his first ball for six. England didn't bowl well - if you keep hitting off stump at Leeds, something will happen. That's the sort of line and length you require at Headingley."
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BBC Sport at Headingley
"Much more pleasant in Leeds today. Cool, but no imminent threat of rain. Plenty buzz around the city centre, looking for a way to get to the cricket. No fancy dress spotted yet, but Headingley will be like a zoo. I promise it will be lively."
England pace bowler James Anderson on Test Match Special, reflecting on his 400th Test wicket: "I think it makes you think about all the hard yards you put in over the years, makes all that hard work seem worthwhile. To be among guys I looked up to and watched as a kid, in and around those great players is a bit surreal, but great at the same time."
Jimmy Anderson is ticking off landmarks like a tourist on a moped at the moment. In the West Indies, we saw him overtake Ian Botham to become England's all-time leading wicket-taker, then yesterday, he knocked over Martin Guptill for Test wicket number 400.
That brought him high praise from most quarters, but not from his colleague Stuart Broad, who rather uncharitably tweeted: "He's talking me through his 400th Test pole. Wobble seam I think, he's says 'effort ball.'"
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After one of those frustratingly stop-start, rain-affected days yesterday, I'm sure you're all anxious to know what the weather gods have got in store for us today.
Well, it's good news, with the forecast accurately described by my colleague Mark Mitchener as "not quite scorchio but not far off".
Sunshine is the order of the day so, fingers crossed, we should see a full day's play today.
"I've just spoken to the great Dickie Bird, who knows everything about Headingley, and he said there's a lot of runs out there. There's a little bit of green grass left on the pitch, but it's dry."
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As we mentioned, honours are fairly even after day one, with New Zealand closing on 297-8.
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Well, that concludes another fascinating, topsy-turvy day of Test cricket in this enthralling series. England were well on top for most of the day but a brilliant spell of new-ball bowling from New Zealand has brought them back into this match and given them a fighting chance of getting the win they need to square this series.
Tomorrow will be an absolutely crucial day in deciding the outcome of this match. Join us for the live text from 10:25 BST. Until then, goodbye.
Captain's view
Captain Alastair Cook, who became England's leading run scorer in Test history, tells Sky Sports: "I can't really describe it. I probably don't deserve to be there. You don't play for the record, but I knew what I needed to break the record.
"It is a huge battle to have longevity as a Test cricketer. It is an amazing journey. As a batsmen you obviously have a lot more bad times. It's been a battle but I'm delighted that today was a special day.
"The last 18 months has been a tough one for me personally. I think that's part and parcel of being a batter. A lot of stuff has gone on and the last four or five months I have dedicated time to my game. When you are in a bit of form, you have to make it count."
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Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"If the rain stays away, I think there will be a result. I couldn't tell you until that third innings who will win. England might get blown away tomorrow morning."
Captain's view
England captain Alastair Cook on TMS: "It was an amazing moment, a personal one - I haven't been nervous in the 20s before, I didn't want to fall four short. I've not heard from Goochie yet as we're not allowed our phones with us, I'm sure he's somewhere in Essex enjoying a glass of red wine but I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him."
Player reaction
England batsman Adam Lyth on Sky Sports: "It's a fantastic moment and my family who came from Whitby: I'm very pleased to get three figures in front of my home crowd. I was a little bit nervous in the 90s, but to be fair New Zealand did bowl pretty well. Reaching the hundred was a moment that I'll never forget. I would have liked to have got more runs at Lord's. I was pleased we'd won the Test match but I knew this game I needed to get some runs. I was more nervous this game than I was at Lord's. A couple of years ago I didn't deserve the England shirt, but I've worked hard and I think I deserve it now."
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Before New Zealand took the new ball, I thought they bowled really well, even the spinner, Craig, who didn't bowl well at Lord's. I talked to McCullum this morning and told them they had to get him to bowl it quicker. He held one end for them with more control, and our openers didn't really go after him. New Zealand scored at 4.6 throughout their innings, and we haven't been able to score at three an over. And when the new ball was taken, it all happened - it got a bit gloomy, Boult and Southee made the ball talk and created problems. The game's moving on."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"If England can get at least level, they know a lot can happen in the third innings - if New Zealand go for glory, that positivity can become reckless, and that could be England's chance."
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I've always had admiration for Alastair Cook's batting. He's had a couple of spells in his career when he's lost it, but he's now playing as good as he's ever played - what he's done differently is just open his front foot so he's not too sideways on. Now he's centred, he's waiting, he's making bowlers bowl at him. If they don't get it perfect, he picks them off on the on side, which he is brilliant at. If you asked me who is the best opening batsman in the world today, no contest: Alastair Cook."
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Terrific cricket to watch, just like Lord's there was a bit of something for everyone, congratulations to the groundsman. Many of us have played at Headingley for a long time, we know you've got to pitch it up to nick the top of the stumps. If you bowl short it sits up and it's easier to hit, but we bowled like that against tail-enders. It was a dozy plan."
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MixItNFixItMan: Can we just accept that New Zealand are a good bowling side and, Lyth wicket aside, we've been undone. Too much player hate.
Mark Gallagher: England fans really don't understand Test cricket.
Graham Lovell: Can't help but think that once Cook was out and Ballance came in, England lost all their momentum and encouraged NZ bowlers. Not a time for run outs either, just before new ball when have established batsmen in.
Close-of-play scorecard
England 253-5 (88 overs)
Batsmen: Bell 12*, Buttler 6*
Fall of wickets: 177-1 (Cook 75), 215-2 (Lyth 107), 238-3 (Ballance 29), 239-4 (Root 1), 247-5 (Stokes 6)
Bowling figures: Boult 23-4-63-2, Southee 23-4-57-1, Henry 18-4-76-0, Craig 22-10-38-1, Williamson 2-1-5-0.
New Zealand 350 all out (Ronchi 88, Latham 84, Broad 5-109)
England won toss
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"A lot of overs from Mark Craig in that session and five wickets, so New Zealand's session - I think the first was pretty even, then the middle session you'd give to England. So a pretty even day overall. Tomorrow, if England can get a good start, they can push on from there. With just under 100 runs ahead, I think New Zealand have their nose just ahead in the match, but it's not a done deal."
Day two review
It all seemed to be going so well for England. After a bit of tail-end tap from New Zealand in the morning took them to a very decent score of 350, England set about their work superbly, with Alastair Cook soon passing Graham Gooch as England's all-time leading Test run-scorer in a resolute opening stand with Adam Lyth.
Cook eventually fell for a well-compiled 75 to the impressive Mark Craig, before Lyth went to his maiden Test century, to the delight of his home crowd at Headingley. When he and Gary Ballance took England to 215-1, the hosts looked to be in the box seat.
But the run-out of Lyth just before the new ball was crucial as it left England exposed when Boult and Southee got the new nut in their hands. And how they profited, producing a superb spell of new-ball bowling to take three late wickets and keep New Zealand's chances of win very much alive.
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Luke: New Zealand played really well this evening and are right back in this.
Toks, Nigeria: The challenge is not the run rate but rather the loss of wickets. If England had tried to get runs with the way New Zealand were bowling, you would have had 120 all out which is even worse.
Close of play
Eng 253-5 (trail by 97)
Tim Southee to bowl the last over of the day. He zips one inches past Buttler's off stump, before Buttler responds with a cover drive for two. And that concludes a fascinating day of Test cricket.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Because England have only scored at 2.8 throughout, and no-one's really pushed on to control the match, they find themselves 100 behind with five wickets down."
Eng 250-5 (Bell 12, Buttler 3)
Jos Buttler is the new man. He's off the mark, jamming his bat down on a full, dangerous delivery and squeezing it out to mid-wicket for three. Wonderful spell from Boult - he really is a world-class operator.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Boult is so dangerous to left-handers - he gets 22 runs per wicket to left-handers, and 30 runs per wicket to right-handers. Buttler is a very dangerous player, but New Zealand will feel they have an end open here. The new ball came just at the right time and has started to swing."
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Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
"Massive wicket for New Zealand."
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New Zealand are cracking this game wide open with a devastating spell of new-ball bowling. Trent Boult has had Stokes in all sorts of trouble and he gets his man with a back-of-a-length away-swinger that Stokes can't help but fence at. The ball absolutely flies to second slip and is brilliantly held above his head by Mark Craig. He kisses the ball in triumph. What a moment for New Zealand - the hero of Lord's is back in the sheds.
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Ali Khalid: Just goes to show what a new ball can do for a side. The NZ bowlers, all most likely exhausted from the excellent display from Cook and Lyth, are still managing to produce some brilliant swing bowling.
Saul, New Milton: I don't think either side have gone the right way about batting here. If the Kiwis had been a bit more watchful, they could have gone past 400 and England are now looking short of runs as they haven't accelerated between overs 50 and 80 when batting was easier.
Eng 247-4 (trail by 103)
Poor old Trent Boult is being assailed in song by a gaggle of rowdy nuns, supermen and vicars on the boundary rope, and eventually has to give in to their chanted entreaties to give them a wave. Bell plays out a maiden to Southee. Two overs left.
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Robert Allen: ENG are still in a good position here. 100 behind with plenty of batting left. Get a lead of 150 and things will be interesting.
John ashenden: Good grief, England fans are so negative. It's still a decent position, get a grip. A test match ebbs and flows so just enjoy!
Eng 247-4 (Boult 22-4-60-1)
Boult is right on the money here, pitching the ball on off stump and just shaping it away. Then, just as Stokes is adjusting to the stock delivery, he throws in a superb bouncer, cross-seam, hit-the-deck, rising sharply into the batsman's armpit. And then with the final ball, he goes full again and draws Stokes forward into a loose drive. Brilliant, brilliant over.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"The problem is here, if England were to send a nightwatchman in at this point, Moeen Ali would end up batting at nine, and that's too low."
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Simon Goodall: If he's got any sense, Ballance will walk into the NZ dressing room "by mistake" until Lyth simmers down.
Rob Meech: The two Aussie Mitchells will be licking their lips at Gary Ballance's lack of footwork against the swinging ball.
Louis Strong: A test average of 55, but you seriously cannot stay in the crease to a new ball from someone like Boult! Rookie.
Eng 245-4 (Bell 12, Stokes 4)
England are batting for tomorrow now. Bell and Stokes rotate through for a couple of no-risk singles against Southee.
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Thomas Knights: Here comes the collapse from a good position. New Zealand dominating the final session.
David: This is why you can't just go at 2.5 an over all day, NZ right back in this.
Jack Allum: We've scored incredibly slowly in this session and lost wickets. Can we now try a different tactic? Like scoring quick runs
Eng 242-4 (trail by 108)
Trent Boult and Tim Southee came to these shores with a big reputation as a ferocious new-ball pairing - they haven't quite lived up to it so far, but this is their moment to drag their side back into a winning position in this match. Boult sends down another probing over to Stokes, who gets a couple off the last ball.
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Rob, Somerset: Isn't Test cricket a wonderful thing? The morning session was, on paper, irrelevant. New Zealand added around 50 runs to their total, and England promptly reduced their target by the same amount without loss of wickets. Net gain zero. And yet it has set up the rest of the day so perfectly!
Eng 240-4 (Bell 11, Stokes 1)
Ben Stokes is the new man, and he's off the mark with a single to fine leg.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"A brilliant end to the day for New Zealand, it's been brilliant cricket from them for the last hour or two. I'd imagine Ben Stokes will have been rushing around getting his pads on. The lights are on so I'd imagine it's not an easy time to bat - the perfect time for New Zealand to get Stokes in there, as it's not the time for a counter-punch, he's got to see them through to the close."
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"The new ball is doing damage here. A lovely delivery, Root felt he had to play at it and Ronchi did the rest."
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Root c Ronchi b Southee 1 (Eng 239-4)
New Zealand are right back in this now! Absolute beauty from Tim Southee, pitching on off, swinging away and drawing the edge of the dangerman Joe Root. Debutant Luke Ronchi takes a brilliant diving catch. England's excellent day is in danger of unravelling before their eyes...
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Jim: Just to say how impressed I have been in both Tests, with the attitude of all the NZ players. Following the example of their captain. I think they have shown the right response to a difficult day today with great sportsmanship, as they have throughout both matches. Whilst playing with determination and fullest commitment, they have still been able to congratulate England players when appropriate and at all time played in the true spirit of the game. England have responded in similar vein, which has been a delight to see. Let's hope the same attitude prevails through the rest of the summer!
Eng 239-3 (Boult 20-4-56-1)
This is New Zealand's big chance to get back into the match, with a brand new cherry, a new batsman and the light fading. Joe Root is the new man and if they can get him early, the tourists will be in with a real shout. Boult's first two deliveries to Root are superb: the first gets him jumping and prodding the ball aerially just wide off short leg, the second zips just past his outside edge. High-class fast bowling.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"A decent ball, but Ballance didn't move - it's not a ball you wouldn't be able to play. A full ball, a bit of movement but there was no movement at all from his right leg. You've got to have more movement against the new ball than that."
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Ballance b Boult 29 (Eng 238-3)
Well, it had been coming. Trent Boult pins Gary Ballance back in his crease with a succession of cracking deliveries with the new ball, and then gets his man with one that just keeps a little low and smashes into the stumps. Early breakthrough with the second new nut for the Kiwis.
Eng 236-2 (Ballance 27, Bell 11)
Mark Craig spits a gobbet of chewing gum out of his mouth and begins his 22nd over. He nearly does for Ian Bell with a beautiful delivery that pitches in the footmarks, spins through the gate and somehow misses the stumps. Let's just say you don't have to be a lipreading expert to decipher Craig's frustration.
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Roger, the Whitby taxi driver: So proud of Adam Lyth. A thoroughly decent lad who deserves his success today. I have had the pleasure of picking him and his lovely family up on many occasions. I know they will all be so proud today.
Eng 230-2 (trail by 120)
With two overs to go before the new ball, it's sandy-haired part-time tweaker Kane Williamson into the attack. Ballance plays out a maiden. Tim Southee is going through some pre-bowling aerobics in the field.
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Simon Goodall: Goodness me, Ballance has gone from playing as slow as fellow Yorkshireman Boycott, to running like him.
Michael Green: Should never be run-out in Test cricket! #Sloppy
Ed Stockton: Great knock from Lyth but is there a sillier way to get out when you're consolidating a strong position?
Eng 230-2 (Henry 18-4-76-0)
A stacked off-side field for Bell, awaiting the miscued drive, but there's nothing wrong with this one, threading Henry through a gap behind backward point. Too short from Henry.
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Bryan Waddle
BBC Test Match Special
"You can't criticise Craig's efforts today. He's bowled from both ends and created pressure for New Zealand when they're a bowler short."
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John Barlow, Wantage: Can one assume that the extraordinary difference in scoring rates between the two sides these last two days is due to the bowling, ie the Kiwis appear to be keeping the ball pitched up whilst our home team revert so easily to persistently pitching it short, even when they know that the batsmen are past masters at playing the hook and the cover drive?
Eng 225-2 (Ballance 25, Bell 6)
Ian Bell gets off the mark in style, dancing down the wicket to Mark Craig and launching him over mid-off for a one-bounce four. Craig responds really well, drifting one just past the outside edge.
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Bryan Waddle
BBC Test Match Special
"The new ball is only four or five overs away, so Henry is going to have to keep bowling so Boult and Southee can have a rest until then."
Eng 219-2 (trail by 131)
That's a handy time for New Zealand to take a wicket, with five overs left until the new ball. If they could whip another one out pronto, it really would be game on. Ian Bell is the new man. Ballance drives Henry through the covers for four.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"I'm not sure who was to blame there, it went to the fielder's left hand but Boult's left-handed. Ballance called, Lyth was a little low setting off and he knew straight away he was gone. I like Lyth, I spoke to him a lot in the West Indies. He's a really good character and he'll have inked himself in for the Ashes on the back of that hundred."
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Lyth run out (Boult) 107 (Eng 215-2)
Well that came out of nowhere. England were chugging along nicely in the slow lane, and then suddenly - breakdown. Gary Ballance nudged one to point, but forgot that the man there was the left-handed Trent Boult, who was able to swoop and unleash an accurate throw into Luke Ronchi, who took it smartly and whipped off the bails. Lyth was a foot short of his ground. He gives Ballance a look like he's just run over his cat.
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Now, there's another run-out shout, and this one looks tight. Adam Lyth is the man with a nervous wait...
Eng 215-1 (Henry 16-4-67-0)
Henry has recovered his lengths here and sends down a maiden to Lyth.
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Stuart Mitchell: Two things I would love right now is for Ballance to get a ton along with Bell - have the top six all in form, with the Ashes looming.
Mark: Lyth looks a far more composed and complete player than those who have opened since Strauss - confidence builder ahead of the Ashes.
Eng 215-1 (Lyth 107, Ballance 21)
Craig has come back really well here - he's bowling really well now, putting the ball in a consistently good area and getting serious dip and grip. Ballance plays out a watchful maiden.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"This is like Lord's. Some balls here, if you pitch it up, can do absolutely anything. Lyth has lost a bit of focus here, trying to pull a ball he should have defended."
Eng 215-1 (trail by 135)
Muted appeals from New Zealand as Matt Henry gets one to nip back in sharply and rap him on the pad, but it's too high. The next ball Lyth plays a very curious shot, trying to pull a ball swinging back into him on off stump and getting an under-edge that flies just past the stumps and away to the fine-leg boundary. Lucky.
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Jonjo in Bristol: Met Gary Ballance's brother out in a bar in Bristol slightly worse for wear a few weeks ago. He ordered a drink from the bar, looked the barman in the eye and said 'Ballance by name, Ballance by nature' and put the glass on his head and jumped around the bar without it falling off his head. Absolutely incredible considering I couldn't even do that sober. The best part was, his mates weren't even surprised they just said 'if you think that's good, you should see Gary'. Reckon we'll get to see that live on TV after an Ashes victory this summer?
Outstanding. What party tricks do you reckon the other members of this England XI have up their sleeves?
Eng 211-1 (Craig 18-8-30-1)
A single for Lyth from Craig's first over after drinks. Are New Zealand hanging on for the new ball now? It's due in nine overs.
Record-breaking Cook - Agnew's verdict
"It is probably true that he is England's bravest and most determined cricketer since Graham Gooch," BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew writes of Alastair Cook, who broke England's Test run record today.
"When he retires from playing, you can imagine him walking away from cricket completely. I suspect the only place I will see him is at Melton market, buying sheep."
Read Aggers' full column on the BBC Sport website.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"You cannot bowl short there to Ballance. He gets most of his runs square on the off side. It'll be interesting to see what the Australians do - Mitchell Starc and Mitchell Johnson, both left-arm over, might cramp him for room."
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Eng 210-1 (Lyth 102, Ballance 21)
Matt Henry has bowled pretty well for the first match-and-a-half of his fledgling Test career, but with the ball old and the conditions unhelpful, he is beginning to dish up some rubbish. Two short, wide deliveries are simply helped to the point boundary by Ballance, before a fuller delivery is creamed through the covers. Are England through that sticky patch? Time for drinks.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"Craig's been able to do a job for them at one end. He's bowled a little bit quicker, not flat, but he's bowled well."
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Shaun: How can people criticise the opening pairs scoring rate? They have seen off the new ball, worn down the bowlers and put on nearly 200, England have such aggressive players in the lower order they can now play freely without pressure, it's a 5 day game, and I for one love it.
Eng 198-1 (trail by 152)
Craig, having bowled some pretty ordinary stuff for this first ten overs, is definitely coming into the game here - he almost finds the edge of Lyth with a delivery that turns appreciably out of the emerging footholes.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Of the last 20 England players to hit a maiden Test century, 10 have done so in their first or second Test, and the last five have all done it in their second - Ben Stokes, Gary Ballance, Sam Robson, Moeen Ali and now Adam Lyth.
"Lyth is also only the second Yorkshire player to score his maiden Test century at Headingley, after Joe Root in 2013."
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Conor Spackman: First century by an opener from Yorkshire at Leeds since Boycott drove Greg Chappell through mid-on for the hundredth hundred
Rachel T: Yessss! Adam Lyth! Maiden 100 for England, on your home ground, how good must that feel?
Aaron Trowse: Top knock from Lyth on home soil. Looking in good stead. I still wonder how he will take to the pace of the Aussies though
Eng 198-1 (Henry 13-3-51-0)
What a great moment for Adam Lyth. He struggled in the last Test but has played a really composed, fluent innings here, surviving a probing examination from the New Zealand bowlers in the nervous nineties. Ballance flat-bats Henry through backward point for four.
Lyth hits maiden Test century
Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"He had a couple of failures at Lord's, but you've got to sleep it off and make sure you enjoy the good days."
Lyth hits maiden Test century
Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
"Headingley are on their feet for one of their own. Adam Lyth, a young man from Whitby, has a very well-played hundred. It's an even more rousing ovation than there was for Alastair Cook earlier."
100 for Lyth
Eng 194-1
He's there! Adam Lyth gets to his first Test century on his home ground. He could easily have been out to the first ball of Mark Craig's over, hitting the ball aerially to mid-off, but sub fielder Neil Wagner seemed to lose track of the ball in the evening gloom and went the wrong way. Thus reprieved, Lyth got there with a big slog-sweep over midwicket, to raucous cheers from the Headingley faithful.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"An interesting little period of play since the dismissal of the captain. New Zealand have tightened their line and bowled with decent hostility, and there's 15 overs left to the second new ball, which McCullum should take as soon as possible."
Eng 186-1 (Lyth 94, Ballance 5)
A full-blooded drive down the ground from Ballance earns him his first four. He still doesn't look entirely comfortable though - survival is the main priority for the England number three at the moment.
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Chris Baker: Everyone moans about run-rate, but I can watch blokes smash 6s whenever I like in limited overs. This is pure test cricket!
Ayelet H Lushkov: Purist stuff in Headingley. Stay in, lads!
Jonathan Jackson: Here's hoping we don't lose another wicket this evening, because as a Villa fan, Bell's mind is going to be elsewhere!
Eng 182-1 (trail by 168)
A conga line of Jesuses cavort their way down the steps of the Western terrace as the sun begins to fade in the Headingley evening. Ballance finally gets off the mark after 17 scoreless deliveries, much to the delight of the well-refreshed messiahs.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Adam Lyth and Gary Ballance have batted together 10 times in first class cricket and are averaging 66 as a pair together."
Eng 180-1 (Southee 19-3-50-0)
Southee is hanging the ball out well wide of off stump, trying to tempt Adam Lyth, within sight of his first Test ton, to play a rash shot. Lyth's not having any of it though, and is content to just nudge a single off his hips when Southee straightens up. An excellent piece of fielding by Henry at mid-on keeps Gary Ballance pinned on 0.
Eng 179-1 (Lyth 92, Ballance 0)
Trent Boult sends down a menacing maiden to Gary Ballance. The number three is still stuck on 0 after 14 deliveries. England are treading in quicksand - just three runs off the last seven overs.
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Stuart Mitchell: I can only imagine that Ravi thought that was sliding down leg, it was absolutely plumb though, good foundation laid for England.
Richie Macca: Really poor umpiring, there. Looked out live, so not sure how he couldn't give it? Thank god we have DRS!
Stephen Byrom: Any budding umpires out there, umpire Ravi is showing how not to do it!! Absolutely clueless.
Eng 179-1 (trail by 171)
New Zealand scent blood here. They have a man waiting in the nervous nineties for this first Test century at one end, and a new batsman coming off a couple of low scores at the other. Tim Southee is tearing in with renewed vigour, and he nearly strikes with an absolute jaffa that hoops back in and beats the bat of Lyth.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"Lyth is a relatively late developer who has got there by weight of runs. He made his mark for Yorkshire as a dasher and what I think has happened over the fast years is that his game has become more measured."
Eng 179-1 (Boult 17-3-51-0)
Yes, as we suspected, New Zealand waste no time in bringing back Trent Boult, a man who will have been haunting the dreams of Gary Ballance since dismissing him twice the Lord's Test. Four slips waiting ravenously in the cordon, and they are so nearly thrown a scrap when Ballance is millimetres away from edging a sharply straightening delivery. He remains scoreless from eight balls.
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Seb Gillot: Lyth has played on without dislodging the bails in the 90s looking for his first test 100, just as Strauss did vs NZ in 2004.
Eng 178-1 (Lyth 91, Ballance 0)
So Gary Ballance is the new man. He had a couple of low scores at Lord's, he's looking for redemption here. Will New Zealand be tempted to bring back his nemesis Trent Boult? Lyth adds a single off Southee.
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Sam Rosser: How has he given that not out? Shocking umpire!
Matt Chapman: Another awful decision from umpire Ravi in this test - looked absolutely plumb on live TV.
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Cook lbw b Craig 75 (Eng 177-1)
England's mammoth opening stand is finally brought to an end. The DRS shows the ball pitched on middle stump and was going straight on. Technology rides to New Zealand's rescue, and boy did they need that. Excellent breakthrough for Craig, who hadn't looked especially threatening until then but hung in there well.
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Alastair Cook is hit on the front pad attempting a sweep. The initial verdict is not out, but New Zealand want another look...
Eng 177-0 (trail by 173)
A puff of the cheeks from Adam Lyth as he aims a wild swish at a hooping inswinger from Tim Southee. And then he gets a real reprieve! He's a touch late on a defensive push and the ball bounces at his feet and backspins onto the stumps, but the bails don't move. Something tells me these nineties are going to be nervous for the Yorkshire opener...
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Nicholas Cooper: Huge admiration for Cook, a lot of unnecessary criticism and his record is second to none. Leadership at the highest level.
bROCKerz: Is Alastair Cook not just the best proof that form is temporary and class is permanent?
Eng 177-0 (Lyth 90, Cook 75)
Lyth moves into the 90s with a steered single to cover.
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Alex in Leicester: Noticed how short England's surnames are. 57 letters in total. Very economical. NZ - 72. Are we the 'shortest' team ever?
Eng 176-0 (Southee 15-1-48-0)
Lyth adds a single, before Cook - increasingly deep in his bunker - blocks out the rest of Southee's over.
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But Alastair Cook is home safely. Ran his bat in nicely. Relief for the England captain.
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Now, is this the breakthrough New Zealand have been waiting for? McCullum has thrown down the timbers...
Eng 174-0 (trail by 176)
England continue their slow-paced accumulation, Cook and Lyth adding a single apiece off the increasingly hopeless-looking spin of Craig.
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Kate in London: I was taught Biology at GCSE by the legend Chris Tavare - lessons were slow and methodical!
Zoe: Chris Tavare taught me Biology after his playing career ended. He got a fair amount of stick for his batting style. Good man, great tache.
Piers in Worcester: I was taught English by Tim Curtis and Geography by Phil Newport at school.
Eng 172-0 (Lyth 87, Cook 73)
How do you get Alastair Cook out when he's in this mood? You can't bore him out, and you can't play on his ego by sending down a few juicy ones outside the off stump. You have to make him play, but get too straight and he'll simply nudge you to leg, as he does to Tim Southee again. Lyth then flicks him down to fine leg for four.
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Charlie Rhodes: Whilst Cook and Lyth are batting very well, I feel under 3 an over isn't quite proactive enough.
Andy Hawkes: The pace that England are scoring today proves Lord's was a one off and not a change in philosophy unfortunately.
George Tunstall: Saracens are scoring faster than the England team at the moment.
Eng 166-0 (Craig 12-6-18-0)
Mark Craig has a lush beard to rival his predecessor as New Zealand's spinner, Daniel Vettori but sadly, he doesn't appear to possess any of the same sorcery in his fingers. It's all too easy for Cook and Lyth to block and nudge their way through another over.
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Ian Bradley: Say it quietly, the search for Strauss successor may be over, Adam Lyth exuding class.
Jeffrey Yeung: I hope Lyth gets a big score in his own backyard, and gives him more confidence to show what he can do as opener(need for Ashes)
Eng 164-0 (trail by 186)
Tim Southee takes the ball at the other end. Adam Lyth, who gets nicely side-on to the ball off the back foot, pockets the first runs of the evening with a single to cover.
Eng 163-0 (Lyth 80, Cook 71)
Mark Craig, in his sunglasses, opens the bowling for New Zealand. Cook continues his simple method: block the straight ones, leave the ones outside off. A maiden ensues.
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Rob Stileman: Not a parent but a brother. Gary Butcher (brother of Mark) taught at my school. Good coach and a good man.
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Thank you Mitch. Smiles on the New Zealand faces as they trot down the dressing-room steps, but they have plenty of graft ahead of them...
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And after an entertaining, and may I stress wicketless middle session, it's over to James Gheerbrant to talk you through the last 38 overs of the day. No pressure, James...
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I don't think we talk enough in English sport about what Alastair Cook's talent really is: stubbornness, concentration, the ability to have a real strong gameplan. What's he got in abundance is that inward talent - strength, character - more so than anyone else I played with. Talent comes from within, and there are many ways of producing good performances."
Record-breaking Cook
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Benjamin: When Ali Cook is near his best we can play any team and never lose. When Ali Cook and Jimmy are near their best we can beat all.
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Bedford School head of music Andrew Morris on TMS: "He was a good musician. He had a natural sense of phrase. He understood the music he was performing, particularly as a pianist. His experience as a St Paul's chorister must have given him that power of concentration, no room for the wrong notes, no room for the right notes at the wrong time and I am sure that helped him in his sport."
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Bedford School cricket coach and former England batsman Derek Randall on TMS: "You can imagine as a cricket coach, to have the pleasure of working with somebody like Alastair Cook is very special. The first time I saw him on the bowling machine, I couldn't believe the balance and timing he had. He's a lovely lad, a very special boy."
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Nick Brett: Somehow Cook still gets criticism! A phenomenal individual record and has led the side to historic wins abroad. All time great.
Stewart Mills: These guys complaining that Cook scores too slowly have NO idea about the role of an opening Test batsman.
Joel Fentem: If you think Alastair Cook scores too slowly then you don't understand Test cricket.
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Bedford School director of sport Guy Fletcher on TMS: "He turned up as a slightly frail 14-year-old, but we could see he had an immense amount of talent. He was also a very talented squash player and played fly-half in rugby. We're immensely proud as a school to see him as England captain."
Alastair Cook as you've never seen him before
BBC Sport has tracked down some photos of Alastair Cook from his primary school days.
From looking bored in French class to singing in the choir with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, click here to see a gallery of Cook's career.
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TMS are now hearing from an array of Cook's former teachers and coaches, including ex-England batsman Derek Randall who coached him at Bedford School.
Cook: Choir boy, golden boy, tractor boy
Did you know Alastair Cook, England captain and now leading Test run-scorer, once sang for the Queen?
Find out which reptile he has nightmares about being eaten by - and why he loves spending so much time with sheep...
BBC Sport looks at the different sides of Cook and how they shaped his path to the top.
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And let's not forget, a record has fallen in that session - Alastair Cook is now England's all-time leading Test run-scorer.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"England will be in comfortable frame of mind. Cook and Lyth have driven well, they've cut well, they've punched off the back foot well. The batsmen have had the odd discomfort but generally they've been very well in control. Batting has looked benign."
Tea scorecard
England 163-0 (50 overs)
Batsmen: Lyth 80*, Cook 71*
Bowling figures: Boult 16-3-50-0, Southee 12-1-39-0, Henry 11-3-43-0, Craig 10-5-16-0, Williamson 1-0-5-0.
New Zealand 350 all out (Ronchi 88, Latham 84, Broad 5-109)
England won toss
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Tea - Eng 163-0
Kane Williamson, who will have bowled here a few times for Yorkshire (before he was collared by the ICC for an illegal bowling action), is on for an over of part-time off-spin before the tea interval - and after a single of Cook, a very part-time half-tracker is despatched to the extra cover boundary by Lyth.
England's session - with their openers still together, and another piece in place for the Ashes (an Adam Lyth-shaped piece slotting into the opener's role).
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Phil Acheson: I was taught French by Bob Willis's brother in 1983. Bob was the England captain in Australia on the 1982-3 Ashes tour. He brought Bob to the school and he signed some of my cricket books.
Peter Whipps: I was taught maths by Mike Brearley's father - Mike was a contemporary pupil at the same school.
Eng 158-0 (Lyth 76*, Cook 70*)
A couple of singles banish any pessimistic thoughts of a follow-on, while Boult pings a delivery down the leg side which is signalled as four byes. I'm not sure if keeper Luke Ronchi has any French ancestry, as he gives a very Gallic shrug as if to say "how was I supposed to stop that?" The singles keep flowing, and England have nearly made it to the interval.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"At this ground you look up rather than down. When the skies are clear and the sun in shining, the ball stops swinging."
Eng 150-0
After a single from Lyth, Cook drills Craig for four through the covers towards the White Rose Stand (the artist formerly known as the Western Terrace), that's the 150 partnership. Time for two, or possibly three more before tea?
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Graeme Williams: I was taught maths by Graeme Swann's dad. He was a brilliant teacher but terrifying too! A quality batsman himself.
Kesh in London: I was employed as a teacher by the mother of Adrian and Robert Rollins, Marva Rollins. Adrian had a long county career and Robert played for England Lions. Topically, Adrian is now a maths and deputy headteacher.
Eng 147-0 (47 overs)
Cook edges Boult for four past second slip, while a more full-blooded stroke brings him two to Henry on the cover boundary. England trail by 205.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I don't think it's without little moments to keep New Zealand's bowlers interested. They've beaten the bat a couple of times. But England are batting very well - Cook has evolved so he hardly plays the ball outside off stump at all."
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Sky statistician Richard Isaacs: First time since Feb 1914 that both leading Test run & wicket taker in same game for England - Jack Hobbs and Sydney Barnes.
Eng 139-0
Craig's previously excellent figures take a dent as Lyth helps himself to a three through mid-wicket. He's racing ahead of Cook, who moves to 58 with a single. Tea coming up on the horizon - at 15:40 BST - with a long final session to come.
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Ben Mummery: Cook has batted for England for more minutes than Boycott - didn't think that was possible!
Liam: He's a good player but he scores too slowly, that's what puts people off.
Eng 135-0 (Lyth 70*, Cook 57*)
Boult takes a tumble as Lyth whacks a four back past the bowler, before guiding a three off his legs - Matt Henry makes a good run-saving stop at long leg, pushing the ball back before tumbling over the rope himself. England enjoying themselves too.
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Tom Watkins: Alastair Cook's mother was my chemistry teacher for three years from 2005-7. For one chemistry test, she promised person with the highest mark would be awarded with a signed Cook ODI shirt. Never worked so hard on a science-related subject in my life.
Actually, I was taught maths by Paul Terry's mother for a year. Anyone else been taught by a current or former Test batsman's mother?
Eng 128-0 (Craig 8-5-7-0)
Craig, having only conceded a miserly seven runs in his first seven overs, continues bowling round the wicket to the two left-handers - and a maiden to Cook make his figures look even better. Geoffrey Boycott may have been disparaging about Craig's abilities for the last two Tests, but he's been right on the money for the Black Caps so far today.
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Marko Koning: Cook is the medicine. When he is doing well, England is doing well. Just in time for the Ashes. Bring it on!
Eng 128-0
New Zealand need to put the brakes on here, with four front-line bowlers they've not got a lot of options so turn back to their premier bowler Trent Boult at the Football Stand End. He brings them some control with five dot balls, although Lyth manages to steer the last delivery through the covers for his ninth four.
There's five ODIs and a T20 international for New Zealand to get through after this Test, they'll be home before the end of June and then have a month off before heading to South Africa in early to mid-August.
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Former England batsman Kevin Pietersen: "I was quoted a few years back saying could break Sachin's record. At the age of 30, he still has a chance! Quite brilliant batsman! Well done, AC!"
Eng 124-0 (Lyth 59*, Cook 57*)
Suddenly the shackles appear to be off as Craig lets one go too short and Cook remorselessly square-cuts him for four. Just 27 more needed for England to avoid the follow-on (he said with his tongue firmly in his cheek).
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David Brooks: I think we can do better with bowling wicketkeepers (see 13:59). How about George Brown, the great Hampshire all-rounder who scored 18,000 runs and took around 600 wickets for them with fast-medium but who kept wicket when he played for England. And then there's the great Kiwi John Reid, a true all-rounder who also kept wicket in tests. I'd also add Hanif Mommamad's leg-spin. The more difficult question is who keeps wicket for this team?
Cook 50
Eng 120-0
A flashing four, sliced over the slips, brings Alastair Cook his 41st Test fifty - and as I mentioned, his fifth score in excess of 50 in his last seven Test innings. A single brings Lyth on strike, it's hearts-in-mouths time for the Yorkshire crowd as their opening batsman nearly pops a return catch to Henry but it's just too low for the big Canterbury seamer and bounces just in front of his grasp as he tumbles onto the wicket. Reprieved, Lyth helps himself to a two before an assured square-driven four takes him to 59.
Could Root pass Cook's record?
Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Joe Root has got 2,272 runs in Test cricket, at the same age Alastair Cook had 2,238. So he is on course, almost."
Eng 109-0
Cook is edging, tortoise-like, towards his fifty. Just a single from another Craig over of tempting off-spin.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"Good shot from Lyth to get your first fifty in Tests. Even when he scored seven and 12 at Lord's, he looked like a player, he looked controlled, he looked like he had a game that would match up well to Test match cricket."
Eng 108-0
Henry strays down the leg side and the ball disappears past Ronchi for four byes. Lyth prods the ball towards short mid-wicket and initially sets off for a single before thinking better of it. A maiden over, and the crowd is getting a little restless, which may have something to do with the amount of alcohol consumed so far. We have another 49 overs scheduled to be bowled today.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"This is England's first century opening stand in a home Test since Birmingham in 2011 when Cook and Strauss added 186 against India."
Cook went on to get 294 in that game.
Eng 104-0 (Lyth 53*, Cook 47*)
Now it's Cook just three runs shy of a Test fifty - though in his case, it would be his 41st (with 27 centuries also in the bank). It would also be his fifth score in excess of 50 in seven Test innings. But for now, he's on the defensive as Craig (5-4-2-0) spins down another maiden.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"For the team issues, Adam Lyth scoring runs today is massive. He is playing so well and looking so calm, looking controlled. All the jigsaw puzzle pieces are looking more in place than they did a just a couple of weeks ago."
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Eng 104-0
Cook breaks the run of maidens as he cuts Henry to the cover point boundary for four. A single draws him level with Adam Lyth on 47 - and that's the cue for the Yorkshire left-hander to work a four off his legs to bring up his maiden Test fifty in only his third international innings. It's also the century stand, so smiles all round for the England fans. Having been marooned on 47 for a while, he's shuttling along nicely now with another two through point.
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Luke in Southend: As a proud(ish) Essex Man, it's good to know that my much maligned county will soon be synonymous with both slippery men who sell cars with questionable back histories and classy Test batsmen with unquestionable batting pedigrees.
Dan in Hertfordshire: What's better, Cook overtaking Gooch or Jimmy reaching the 400 club? And whose attributes would you prefer to have between the two men? I would have to say Jimmy for both, although I'd rather have Cook's personality.
Eng 93-0
Craig, bowling in his sunglasses, keeps Lyth tied down again, there's momentary excitement among the fielders when the Yorkshire opener sweeps and misses, but the ball was clearly disappearing well down the leg side. Maiden, the third in succession and the fourth in five overs.
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England 93-0 (35 overs)
Batsmen: Lyth 47*, Cook 42*
Bowling figures: Boult 12-3-29-0, Southee 12-1-39-0, Henry 8-2-21-0, Craig 3-2-2-0.
New Zealand 350 all out (Ronchi 88, Latham 84, Broad 5-109)
England won toss
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"The most amazing thing about Alastair Cook's record is that he's only 30 years of age."
Bryan Waddle adds: "There's a good five or six years left in his game."
Drinks break
Eng 93-0
McCullum is still carefully directing his fielders as a bye advances the score - apart from that last four from Cook, we've had a good couple of dozen dot balls in the last four overs. Another maiden - with the bye not counting against the bowler - and the players have earned some drinks.
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Bryan Waddle
BBC Test Match Special
"This is a nice steady organised partnership. The batsmen are in control of proceedings. New Zealand are finding very little encouragement in good batting conditions."
Eng 92-0
Cook carefully plays out another maiden from Craig. With both batsmen approaching a half century, do the "nervous nineties" have a forties equivalent? Fearsome forties?
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Dan Gaylor: For all his supposed captaincy flaws Cook's tenacity, bloody mindedness, and dedication is second to none... a true great opener and I think it's only in time after he's retired people, will truly appreciate how special this guy truly is!
Sean in Derby: My favourite Cook memory has to be five years ago. I was bed ridden with a nasty bout of tonsillitis. Cook was batting to save his Test career against Pakistan at the Oval. His 110 that day did more to clear the infection than any dose of TCP that my mother had prescribed!
Aussie Fawlty: Poms who live down under will never forget his 766 runs at 127.66 in the 2010-11 Ashes series. May history repeat itself in the next few months.
Eng 92-0 (Lyth 47*, Cook 42*)
Cook moves into the forties, thrashing a Henry full toss for four past the bowler. Boult, now patrolling the boundary, is rapidly signing autographs between deliveries - but every time he turns back to the crowd, there are around 20 youngsters thrusting miniature bats in his direction for him to sign.
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"One chap has come dressed as the Queen, complete with mask. Every time he gets up to get a pint/go to the loo/meet the Prime Minister, the Western Terrace belts out the national anthem. Rousing."
Eng 87-0
In fact, it's a double change as the bearded Mark Craig is on to bowl some off-spin from the Kirkstall Lane End, having sent down that solitary over before lunch. Lyth, perhaps sensing the approach of that maiden fifty, plays out a maiden.
If you're just joining us, you can read all about Alastair Cook the record breaker on the BBC Sport website.
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Rookie error from the ICC, who have misspelt Alastair Cook's name in this congratulatory tweet.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I think New Zealand have bowled pretty well - Southee has improved from the first Test - but the pitch has flattened out and England are sitting pretty."
Eng 87-0 (Lyth 47*, Cook 38*)
A change of bowling as Boult is replaced by third seamer Matt Henry - as we've observed before, New Zealand don't have the greatest of bowling options (four front-line bowlers, one part-time spinner, a couple of non-bowling batsmen and four wicketkeepers). A bouncer to Lyth is deemed an aerial wide, while a single takes him to 47.
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"I never understand the theory that a Mexican wave means the crowd aren't interested in the cricket. The Headingley crowd knew exactly what was going on, halting a wave to acclaim Cook with sustained applause. A banner was unfurled and play was slightly delayed as the appreciation continued. Cook raised his bat a couple of times, but the helmet stayed on. Understated, more work to do."
Eng 85-0
Vintage Cook, cracking Southee to the same point boundary for another four, while Southee has a touch of the Steven Finn (2010 model), falling over after his delivery stride.
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Dave Wilson: Whether you like him as captain or not, there's no doubting that Cook is a world class Test opening batsman, England's best ever.
Hugh Moxon: Walking several miles from the stadium but can still hear Headingley erupt as Cook makes history. Way to silence the doubters!
Matt Chapman: Congratulations Cook. Keep this form up and score a shed full against Australia in the summer please.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"When he's playing well, leaving the ball well, I think Cook is the best opening batsman in the world."
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Graham Gooch has been England's leading run scorer for 7,952 days or almost 22 years. Only two players have been England's leading run-scorer for longer than that: Jack Hobbs and Wally Hammond."
Eng 81-0 (Lyth 46*, Cook 34*)
As the crowd settles down, a wide from Boult advances the score, while Lyth prods a single towards third man. Cook, with those record shackles broken, knocks a single off his legs.
Meanwhile, we'd like to hear from you - forget the captaincy debate for a while, as an opening batsman, where does Alastair Cook rank among England opening batsmen you've seen?And what are your fondest memories of his batting career? (NB if you saw Jack Hobbs play and are able to use the internet, I take my hat off to you!)
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I don't think it's a big milestone in his life. What's more important to him is the hundreds he's got, the matches he's won, and the fact that he's now back in his best form. I'm sure not playing one-day cricket has helped him."
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Alison Mitchell
BBC Test Match Special
"The standing ovation he is getting around Headingley just tells you the ovation and respect the England supporters have for their captain. That is a special moment for a man who has ridden all manner of ups and downs."
That's a record
Eng 78-0
Cook steers Southee through cover point for four - he's done it! Alastair Cook becomes England's highest Test run-scorer with 8,902 runs, ahead of Graham Gooch's 8,900.
A warm ovation from the stands at Headingley, while a large red banner is unfurled, featuring the hashtag #headchef - well done, Cookie. All the more remarkably, in less than 10 years since his debut, he's played nearly as many Tests (114) as Gooch did in a 20-year international career.
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He's like Elizabeth Taylor, Alastair Cook - he's been through a few partners."
Adam Lyth is Cook's ninth opening partner in Tests, after Strauss, Vaughan, Carberry, Trott, Pietersen, Compton, Root and Robson.
Eng 74-0 (27 overs)
Lyth leg-glances Boult for four - whisper it quietly, never mind Cook-watch, his partner is only five away from a maiden Test fifty. You wait for Headingley to erupt for one of their own.
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"He's a terrific fielder McCullum, very athletic. Not all wicketkeepers have traditionally been good fielders but he is superb."
Eng 70-0
Cook squeezes Southee through extra cover for a single - up to 8,898, two behind Gooch. Lyth defends before examining the tape-repair-job on his bat between deliveries. Southee comes round the wicket, but Lyth is not flustered by the change of angle and confidently flicks a three off his legs. Now he gets umpire Tucker to have a look as his bat-tape. (Bat-tape - sounds like something Batman might have in his utility belt if he came to a match).
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Jack Blackburn: I've decided to watch the cricket until Cook breaks this record. He needs 5 runs. Could take one minute. Could take 100.
Jack Ewins: Cook to reach his milestone with a six over cow corner? Perhaps not.
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"There's someone waving a Mexico flag in the Western Terrace. I think I can make out some sombreros, but bringing a flag is a whole new level of commitment. As New Zealand take time over the field, one impatient Yorkshireman shouts for them to 'get on with it'."
Eng 66-0 (Boult 10-3-22-0)
Boult to Lyth, uneventful maiden over, after which the Yorkshire left-hander has to get his bat repaired with some tape by the 12th man.
And on the "most keepers in a Test XI" question, Martin Jones (12:32) suggested the Sri Lankan quintet of Dilshan, K Silva, Sangakkara, Chandimal and P Jayawardene - but the ever-meticulous Andrew Samson has checked and they've never all played in the same international match (Test, ODI or T20). So it's just those five Zimbabweans (12:36) that Andrew found earlier.
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Michael Fordham (history teacher, taking a break from marking A-Level essays…): Re: beer and mead (13:46). Beer most certainly was drunk during the middle ages by people from all social classes, including knights.
Consider myself admonished!
Eng 66-0 (Lyth 38*, Cook 28*)
Lyth firmly cuts Southee for three, while a Cook single cranks the rotors around to 8,897, three behind Goochie. Lyth gets up on one foot to force a single to fine leg as the man with a diabolical 666 on his shirt takes England to 66-0.
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Adam: If you need bowling wicketkeepers, how about Australia's Tim Zoehrer, who bowled very respectable leggies? Going back a bit further, AC Smith of Warwickshire and England, who took 131 first-class wickets at 23.46 with his medium pacers.
Another Warwickshire keeper, Geoff Humpage, regularly bowled medium pace in the Sunday League in the early 1980s.
Eng 61-0
Boult, from the Football Stand End, finds Cook in cautious mode, defending assuredly as Boult slants the ball towards his pads. A maiden over, before play is held up while McCullum has to take his left boot off before pulling a protective strapping up over his knee.
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"It's been old-fashioned Test cricket since England have been batting. Lyth's looking for every run-scoring opportunity, but the bowlers have been more or less on target."
Ouch!
Eng 61-0 (Lyth 34*, Cook 27*)
Tim Southee back into the attack after that one over of pre-prandial spin from Craig. Lyth straight-drives, Cook has to get out of the way and they complete a well-run two as captain Brendon McCullum gives chase to the boundary.
Meanwhile, Kiwi keeper Luke Ronchi takes a painful blow on his right hand leaping to take one down the leg side, and this could be a dangerous situation for New Zealand. They only have another three recognised wicketkeepers in their XI...
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"The men that matter will have been impressed by Lyth in this innings. He's looked compact, he's left the ball well, and his instincts are positive and aggressive."
Eng 59-0
Warm applause from the Yorkie crowd as Lyth gets England under way after the interval with a fluent cut for four. A single off the fifth ball of the left-armer's over gives Cook only one ball to have a bash at the record... and he defends it, as some mediaeval knights, carrying a few flagons of beer (it should be mead if they're being historically accurate), take their seats after lunch.
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Trent Boult to take the opening over to Adam Lyth. But stand by on Cook-watch. (Does a watched Cook ever boil?)
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"You don't want these landmarks to loiter for too long. You want to get them out of the way."
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BBC Radio Test Match Special
Comedian and TV presenter Dom Joly on Test Match Special: "I once pushed a pram down some stairs and I am not proud of it and the Guardian said it was a marvellous reworking of Eisenstein's Potemkin, no it wasn't, it was just a stupid joke."
I'm sure you'll be able to listen again to the Dom Joly interview via the TMS podcast page very soon... the Michael Parkinson interview from yesterday is already there.
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Thanks, James. I wonder how Captain Cook has spent the lunch interval - I know how he's said he doesn't notice milestones, but I can't believe he's not aware that at the moment he's on 8,896 Test runs - just four behind his friend and lifelong mentor Graham Gooch's 8,900 at the top of the England run-scoring charts. (For the purposes of comparison, Goochie is currently 13th in the all-time list for all countries, 365 behind 12th-placed Graeme Smith.
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Right, the players are coming back out, time for me to hand over to Mark Mitchener...
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Comedian and TV presenter Dom Joly on Test Match Special: "I think if there was a real problem with Alastair Cook you would sense that, but I don't think there's much dissension. I'm all for Alastair Cook, even though I don't think he makes the greatest captaincy choices."
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Martin, Hull: If it becomes another talking point of whether Lyth should be selected for the Ashes series I would merely point out that had the England setup shown a modicum of common sense, the topic of conversation may not be needed. It was a stupid thing to have Trott opening when we had Lyth in the wings. Lyth should have played all three Tests against West Indies in April.
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Comedian and TV presenter Dom Joly on Test Match Special: "If money was no option, I would be the Mick Jagger of the cricket world. I would just cruise the Caribbean in my own boat watching football and cricket."
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BBC Pakistan correspondent Shaimaa Khalil: "The Pakistani cricket authorities say Sunday's third and final one-day international against Zimbabwe will go ahead despite an explosion close to the stadium where the two teams were playing on Friday. The police initially claimed the explosion had been caused by an electric transformer. Soon after, the Information Minister confirmed it was a suicide attack in which a police officer died, and six others wounded, when he tried to stop the bomber."
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Mike Bell, Ashford: Luke Ronchi isn't the only Luke ever to play Test cricket. I can clearly remember FS Trueman addressing several batters as "Luke Out".
Joan Wood: Can you explain why Fred Trueman's statue is in a Skipton car park and not Headingley?
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Chris: Yesterday I was thinking about this & wondered whether you could put together an XI made up entirely of wicketkeepers (both full time & part time) bearing in mind you need four or five that could bowl as well. My bowling wicketkeepers would be Dhoni, Trescothick, Dravid, AB de Villiers & Kieswetter.
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Harry Woolley: On Monday everyone was praising Cook's captaincy. Oh how fickle England supporters can be...
Benjamin: That was an exhibition of English opening batting. Cook leaving (and thus batting) as well as I have ever seen him do so.
The Cookie Monsters are out in full force today.
Morning review
Well, we thought this would be a good day for batting, and it's proved that way so far.
New Zealand, with two wickets left, began in enterprising fashion with the bat, adding 53 runs in a wildly entertaining slog-fest, before Stuart Broad wrapped up the innings and completed his 13th Test five-for.
With a total of 350 on the board, New Zealand would have had high hopes of putting England under pressure with the ball, but England's openers began in excellent fashion, mixing resolute defence with some well-judged shots.
New Zealand didn't bowl badly, but they just couldn't tempt the batsmen into a rash shot, and Alastair Cook is now just five runs short of beating Graham Gooch's all-time England Test run-scoring record.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"It's been really good cricket - New Zealand continued their enterprising batting early on. England were poor with the ball, but their batting's been excellent. New Zealand have been probing away on off stump, but Lyth and Cook have shown some good application."
Lunch - Eng 54-0 (trail by 296)
Spinner Mark Craig is going to bowl the final over before lunch. Cook almost gives it away with a rather loose swish at one outside off, but he survives the rest, and England are unbloodied at lunch. Excellent work from the openers.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"A good start by this pair, they've been very watchful against some good bowling."
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Kofi in London: Just finished my physics degree yesterday so should really be on the job hunt but I'm going to make the more grown up decision to lie in bed all day listening to TMS - if only I could land a job as a full time "expert" listener.
Eng 52-0 (Lyth 26, Cook 26)
Lyth brings up the England 50 with a deft glide down to the third-man boundary. Glee on the faces of those in the front-row seats as three New Zealand fielders chase the ball vainly to the fence.
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Bryan Waddle
BBC Test Match Special
"I spoke to Luke Ronchi last night and he said he was determined to enjoy himself as it could be his only Test for New Zealand."
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"It's been some good bowling from New Zealand, on this surface you just need to try to hit off stump as much as you can. England will know there will be opportunities later in the day. Adam Lyth needs to hang in there as sometimes his downfall has been his patience."
Eng 46-0 (Henry 5-1-15-0)
Cook works one from off stump through wide mid-on, it's hauled in just short of the fence but brings England three. Five minutes to go to lunch, England's openers closing in on the end of a job very well done.
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Nick Harrison: Love that we never give credit to the other team, NZ swung their willow at the end, this week it worked, last week we won!
Rachel T: Alastair Cook really does run like Woody in Toy Story. Graeme Swann was spot on with that.
Jonny D tudor: Just making a nice brew and the tea bag split, must be Cook's fault. Can be no other reason.
Eng 42-0 (trail by 308)
Alastair Cook record watch: he needs 31 to draw level with Graham Gooch as England's all-time leading run-scorer in Test cricket. He's currently nine away, but at the slightly ponderous rate that England are currently batting, he may not get there before lunch. New Zealand trying to put the squeeze on Adam Lyth, and it almost works when he chips one just short of short mid-wicket.
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lREDACTEDl: England's opening a bit of a snooze-fest so far compared to NZ's gung-ho style of play. Effective though.
Simon Parker: Cook and Lyth doing a good job. Forget the runs. 15 overs of the new ball and no wickets.
Eng 38-0 (Lyth 16, Cook 22)
Don't bowl there to Alastair Cook - he plays short-pitched bowling with the ease of a man in his favourite armchair swatting away a bluebottle with the Sunday newspaper. He hammers an inadvisable Henry delivery to the fence. Bowl there to him - full, on off stump, and Cook edges it just short of Kane Williamson at third slip.
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"Already very partisan on the Western Terrace, ironic cheers coming with every New Zealand appeal that is turned down. If they're this rowdy now, what will it be like come tea time? I'm going to get myself in there, maybe to meet an air hostess. Or a duck. Or one of the Muppets."
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Alastair Cook has now scored 200 runs off Tim Southee's bowling in Test cricket, and Southee is yet to get him out."
Eng 32-0 (Southee 5-1-10-0)
A modicum of alarm in a pretty unruffled session for England as McCullum shies at the stumps with Cook scampering through for a tight single. Southee not looking too dangerous at the moment.
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J Cunningham: Re: 12:36 - I'm guessing Zimbabwe didn't try five wicketkeepers again after losing by an innings and 301 runs?
They certainly didn't try poor old Forster Mutizwa again - scandalously, it was his only Test. So far...
Eng 31-0 (trail by 319)
England's opening batsmen are doing their bit to reassert the traditional virtues of Test cricket after the wham-bam pyrotechnics of the New Zealand innings. Block, block, nudge, block, block, dab. Another good over goes unrewarded from Matt Henry.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I'll be interested to see if New Zealand can hang in there, bowling this line and length. If they can, they'll create chances. Henry's first over was the best over of the match, very consistent."
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Barney, Jersey: Nothing against Lyth or Ballance but I really think that we need an aggressor in the top three, preferably a right hander. Alex Hales, for me, should be opening in the Ashes.
Ben, Hindon: Crazy talk re: Root. Why take your best batter and give him pressure of captaincy? Let the best player play. It's this crazy thinking that did for Botham, Flintoff and set in motion the whole KP disaster!
Eng 30-0 (Lyth 16, Cook 14)
It's not happening for Trent Boult. He's bowling a tight line and getting a bit of movement but he just can't draw a rash shot from this England pair. His seventh over passes without incident, and that could be the end of his spell.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"I've found a Test XI with five wicketkeepers in - Zimbabwe against New Zealand in Napier in 2012 - Tatenda Taibu, Brendan Taylor, Forster Mutizwa, Tino Mawoyo and Regis Chakabva."
Don't tell me you've forgotten Forster Mutizwa!
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Imogen: Nice to see Cook's fans (I like to call us the Cookie Monsters) defending Cook - he seems to be blamed for everything these days.
Eng 29-0 (Henry 2-1-4-0)
Nice shot from Lyth, playing a back-of-a-length delivery from Henry right under his eyes and gliding it down to the third-man boundary. Not much happening for New Zealand at the moment, England are blunting their new-ball spearhead well.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"Boult didn't appeal there. He joined in at the end for the sake of it. A good decision by the umpire."
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Martin Jones: Four keepers in a Test XI isn't a record. I believe Sri Lanka played recently with the following in the team: Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kaushal Silva, Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal and Prasanna Jayawardene. Don't know if Andrew can do better?
Eng 25-0 (trail by 325)
A yelp of frustration from Trent Boult as Alastair Cook flicks him down to the fine-leg boundary. He responds superbly though, cutting the England skipper in half with one that pitches on off and straightens. There's a decent appeal, but McCullum opts against a review, and wisely - replays show the ball flicked the back leg. Another big appeal as Boult raps Cook on the front pad, but there was a little inside edge there. Good over though.
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"In this bowling attack, Boult bowled well at Lord's, then you've got Southee, Henry is full of potential but pretty raw, and the off-spin of Craig who is liable to leak runs. McCullum doesn't have many options. Yet there's four wicketkeepers in the team."
Eng 21-0 (Lyth 12, Cook 9)
Brendon McCullum makes his first bowling change and summons Matt Henry into the attack. Henry bowled pretty well on debut at Lord's and his first two balls are superb, zipping past Lyth's outside edge. Lyth blocks out the rest of the over.
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Darren Hawkins: I wish people would stop saying Root is too young for the captaincy, he's 25! Graeme Smith was 21 that didn't turn out too badly.
Jack Mendel: Stuart Broad should be grateful to the Kiwi tail-enders. I mean, this might be the only time he goes past 100 runs again.
Eng 21-0 (Boult 5-1-12-0)
This is a resolute start by England's openers, leaving the away-swinging delivery well outside off stump. Lyth retains the strike by flicking a single off his pads off the final ball of the over.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"The New Zealand innings was the first time four men have scored at more than a run a ball in a Test innings - McCullum (41 from 28), Ronchi (88 from 70), Henry (27 from 21) and Boult (15 from 11)."
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Daniel Rajan: Death, taxes and Alastair Cook being slaughtered as soon as anything goes wrong.
We're presuming that's the answer to the question "what are the three certainties of life"?
Eng 20-0 (trail by 330)
Luke Ronchi is the man with the gloves for New Zealand on his Test debut. Southee continues the thankless task of trying to draw a loose stroke from Cook, but he's not managing it at the moment - the England captain simply blocks out a maiden.
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"It's a big game for Adam Lyth. He just needs one big score, and he'll start the Ashes series. Two failures here, and there will be a long, agonising debate. It's the sixth opening partnership England have tried since Andrew Strauss retired."
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Kesh Chauhan: I wish everyone would stop slating Cook as captain. He may not be the best but who else can take the reins? Root is not a viable alternative it's too early!
Eng 20-0 (Lyth 11, Cook 9)
Oh goodness me, that really was close - Boult just zipping one millimetres past Lyth's off stump. Lyth responds well with a firm push through the covers that runs away to the fence. Nicely timed. His next shot is loose though, driving airily at a wide one from Boult. Dangerous.
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BBC Sport's Tim Oscroft at Headingley: A gang of air stewardesses seem to have mistaken Headingley for Leeds Bradford airport...
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Harry in Bristol: Refusing to listen to TMS as I'm in the middle of my finals and the last Test cost me a few marks... Just hope I don't see any wicket alerts pop up now England are in.
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Eng 16-0 (Southee 3-0-9-0)
Cook's judgment looks really good here. He shoulders arms to a ball from Southee that zips over the top of off stump. And with his next shot he eases Southee to the boundary with a lovely, bended-knee cover drive that even a commando-rolling Brendon McCullum can't stop.
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New Zealand's run-rate of 4.84 was the 12th fastest when a team has scored 350+ in an innings in Tests.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"I'd think England should be up with New Zealand by tonight. The pitch isn't doing much, that roller has helped."
Eng 12-0 (trail by 338)
Not too much late swing for New Zealand at the moment, a bit of early shape but none of the last-minute movement that really troubles batsmen. Trent Boult is just struggling to make Alastair Cook play at the moment, and when he does Cook just steers him to mid-off for a single.
Eng 10-0 (Lyth 6, Cook 4)
Brendon McCullum will chase balls with the unstinting alacrity of a border collie that's chewed its way through a packet of coffee beans. He saves four with a superb stop when Lyth drives handsomely down the ground.
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John, Worcestershire: We are in new Test match territory here. Boycott is talking about 200 being par on a wicket like this, but he is thinking in old money. The way NZ and the Aussies are playing Test matches like one-day cricket makes it very difficult to say what is a par score. The Test match norms are all in the melting pot. Can the English players rise to the challenge? I think so. This all has to be good for the public image of the Test format. Four or five days of entertainment. Having cricket on terrestrial or freeview satellite TV would also help to bring back the game's popularity. How many people out there would love to watch some of the game live on terrestrial TV, but don't feel like forking out for a monthly Sky Sports subscription? A great many, I suspect.
Eng 9-0
New Zealand's regular wicketkeeper BJ Watling is in the slips today due to a slight knee injury: no gloves for him, he'll have to make do with his bare hands. A maiden from Boult, with most of the deliveries left outside off by Cook.
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"McCullum has altered the whole attitude of New Zealand cricket since he took over. A lot of the way a team plays comes from the captain - Michael Vaughan changed it with England, Mike Brearley was good, and look at how Imran Khan handled Pakistan when they were a bit of a rabble."
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David: next time somebody questions the flack Cook gets as captain, show them this 1/2 hour. No leadership no ideas & capped off by shouting left when the ball went right of the fielder.
Eng 9-0 (Lyth 5, Cook 4)
As expected, it's Tim Southee who takes the new cherry from the other end. Lyth, who looks to start busily, picks up a couple of twos, driving through the covers on both occasions.
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Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special
"Broad is the leading wicket-taker in the series, with six at Lord's and five already here, but it was a strange five-for."
Eng 5-0
Lyth is off the mark immediately with a single into the covers. Boult's first ball to Cook is a beauty, pitching on off and just shaping away, but Cook shows excellent judgment to leave the ball with conviction. Boult then straightens up too much and Cook squeezes him off his pads for a four down to fine leg. There is movement on offer for Boult though.
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Adam Lyth to take strike to the first ball. Trent Boult to deliver it...
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"On the way to the ground I saw three guys dressed in yellow T-shirts, with red aprons and caps, as if they work at a fast food restaurant. I thought they were going to work, but it turns out that is their fancy dress for the day at the Test. Surely the essence of fancy dress is making it obvious that you're in fancy dress?"
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New Zealand huddle up. They will be desperate for early wickets here. Alastair Cook, in sight of the England all-time runs scorer's record, and Adam Lyth, who wouldn't mind a score of any sort, trot out to the middle. Big phase of the game coming up...
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
On Twitter: "Broad 17.1-0-109-5 = most expensive runs per over 5-for in Test cricket (6.41)."
Here's the full list of the most expensive five-fors.
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Richard Katz: Approach games like this for the rest of the summer and we'll be annihilated.
Darren Pickard: This is a very average England side carrying too many passengers!
Louise Fauduet: On Trevor Bayliss's must-coach list: how to bowl tail-enders out.
Innings review
Well, that looks a pretty decent score for New Zealand, and what will particularly please them, with rain around and victory needed to square the series, is that they've done it in double-quick time.
They got off to a dreadful start, collapsing to 2-2 and 68-3, but they fought back in typical New Zealand fashion, with debutant Luke Ronchi and Brendon McCullum bludgeoning some counter-attacking middle-order runs, while Tom Latham played the anchor role, compiling a cussed 84.
England looked to have wrested back a measure of control at the end of day one, picking up three quick wickets, but they surrendered it again in a rather mad morning.
Now though, the hard work begins for New Zealand, as they try to take 20 England wickets...
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Matt in Derby: Surely, with the ever demanding requirements on cricket as an entertainment in itself, there is a case to be made for NZ getting more than two Tests? They're well on the way to being THE draw in Test cricket under McCullum, who wouldn't want to watch this?
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"It's Broad's third five-wicket haul at Headingley, but it's been very expensive. I think 200 was about par yesterday as it was overcast and murky, and two wickets went down just like that. But they didn't bowl as well as they could yesterday."
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Boult c Lyth b Broad 15 (NZ 350 all out)
A frustrating last-wicket stand is finally ended when Trent Boult skies one up in the air and Adam Lyth collects a simple catch at point. Stuart Broad collects one of the more bizarre five-fors, and England will have a bat.
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Mark Hefter: See those three wooden things stuck in the ground, try aiming at them please.
Jon Dunn: Don't think they've bowled one ball this morning that would have hit the stumps. Shocking performance so far.
Toby Mullins: This is where Cook's captaincy comes into question. He never deals with his bowlers when they are bowling badly.
NZ 350-9 (Craig 41, Boult 15)
Oh yes! Majestic from Craig, spoiling a potential maiden from Ben Stokes with a glorious back-foot punch to get four off the final ball of the over. Stokes boots the turf in anguish.
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Bryan Waddle
BBC Test Match Special
"This is some of the best baseball hitting in the history of this ground. You can't nudge and nurdle this bowling, but there's a stage where it becomes counter-productive."
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Benjamin: New Zealand don't do draws, and it is brilliant to watch. They deserve more than a two-match series.
Ed Mehen: As NZ are intent on playing in a one-day fashion why aren't England bowling in like fashion? Get it in the blockhole!
NZ 346-9
Farcical scenes as Adam Lyth on the boundary completely loses sight of another leg-side swat from Craig. Go right Adam, his team-mates yell, as the frantic Lyth assumes the posture of a man groping in the dark for a lightswitch. Warmer! Colder! It's no use as the ball races away to the boundary. Boult then ramps yet another short ball over the slips for one of the more subtle boundaries of the morning.
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"What on earth is going on? Stuart Broad is bowling to New Zealand's number 11 with five men on the boundary, four of them on the leg side. Is there something wrong with line and length? Have we confused Trent Boult with Brendon McCullum?"
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"How long can you keep going with this attack? Number 11 in, bowl him out. Broad will probably feel he's got two wickets with this method. But sometimes you can get caught up in those methods."
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Denz: They're tail-enders - bowl at the stumps maybe?
Michael Shaw: What are we doing! Pitch the ball up and try and hit the stumps
Ben Walker: Morning session fireworks. What's wrong with yorkers and top of off stump?
NZ 337-9 (Stokes 16-4-66-1)
The average first innings score at Headingley in the last six Tests is 236, incidentally. Craig continues the rampage, carting Ben Stokes back over his head for a huge six.
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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician
"Nobody's ever taken five wickets in more than 15 overs, and gone for more than six an over, as Broad is doing."
Broad's figures after that over: 16-0-100-4.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"With number 11, I think you've got to try to get him out, not come round the wicket and bowl bouncers at him. England have lost their focus on what they should be doing. Why hasn't Anderson bowled this morning? He'd pitch it up, swing the ball and get them out."
NZ 328-9 (Craig 24, Boult 10)
Mark Craig has played second fiddle so far this morning, but no longer. Broad sends one down on a good length outside off and Craig mashes it over backward point. Trent Boult, with the butter-wouldn't-melt grin of a 12-year-old altar boy, then produces a stroke that an axeman would be proud of, brutally swatting a short ball to the mid-on boundary.
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"I remember Tim Southee making his debut in that game at Napier [when Southee took 5-55 and scored 77 not out], Stuart Broad was playing too and I wrote at the time about how these two young cricketers could be playing against each other for many years to come. But both their batting has gone backwards since then."
NZ 317-9
So Trent Boult is the new man. He's partial to a few shots too, and after a textbook forward defensive to his first ball, he clubs his second through the off-side. New Zealand motoring here, even though the tank has almost run dry.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"New Zealand will want as many runs as they can as quickly as they can, to give themselves time in this Test to take 20 wickets."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"There is no fast bowlers' union any more, but there is an area in the laws saying you should not bowl fast short-pitched deliveries at tail-end batsmen, so I was pleased to see the umpire step in there."
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Henry c Buttler c Broad 27 (NZ 310-9)
A wicket entirely in keeping with the tempo of this Test match so far. Henry bludgeons his second boundary of the day, a ginormous flat six in front of square leg, and then tries the same shot next ball and gets a tickle behind. Runs and wickets continuing to flow, and Broad in sight of his 13th Test five-for.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
On Twitter: Full house... Nice weather... Horses... Where's Wally... Her Majesty... And the Teletubbies... Saturday of the Headingley Test!
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Chuck: No internet or TV at home so told my parents I was off to the pub to revise for my 3 exams this week. Cricket on the laptop with calculator strategically placed in sight just in case they check on me. This better be a good day of cricket.
NZ 304-8 (Craig 16, Henry 21)
Matt Henry is a bit late on a defensive stroke to the first ball of the day and nearly chops it onto his stumps. He then gets New Zealand up and running with a two to deep square leg, and brings up the New Zealand 300 with a spectacular stroke, giving himself room and walloping Stokes over mid-wicket for four. He tries the same shot next ball and gets one for it via a meaty top-edge into his helmet. That will have woken him up. Seven off the first over, New Zealand picking up where they left off.
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Jeremy Coney
Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special
"I'm willing to say that if the swing was there for James Anderson yesterday, it will be there for Trent Boult."
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Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special
"Chris Gayle's a great character, he's always very approachable. The only thing he's lacking is that deep, rumbling voice like a Roger Harper or a Clive Lloyd. For a tall man, he's got quite a high voice. I've heard there are some 'restricted view' tickets available today - it could be the best batting conditions of the match."
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We're almost ready to go. Matt Henry and Mark Craig at the crease, Ben Stokes with the ball. Will New Zealand continue to bat positively?
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
In his "other" persona as Somerset's chairman of cricket, reflecting on Chris Gayle's 92 for Somerset against Essex last night, after Gayle admitted he had not practised since coming to the UK, but instead "done some mental stuff":
"We like our players to do a little 'mental stuff'. There's a probability we would have sent Chris some 'data' on the Essex bowlers and he would have taken it on board! There are a handful of cricketers in the world who can put bums on seats, and I'm looking forward to seeing him at Taunton to see if he can clear those 'massive' boundaries!"
BBC weather forecast
BBC Weather's Louise Lear on TMS: "Could be a lot worse today - it will stay dry, though the cloud will build up and there's potential for some poor light by the end of the day. First thing tomorrow, it's going to be a wet start, so there may be a delayed start, with sunny spells and scattered showers in the afternoon. If you've got tickets for tomorrow, wrap up warm. Monday looks fine and bright."
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"There's not really a stock bowler in this attack who can keep control. Ben Stokes was quite economical yesterday, but he's an up-and-at-em fourth seamer, not a holding fourth seamer, and Moeen Ali didn't bowl particularly well yesterday so the balance isn't quite right. Stuart Broad was bowling bouncers from round the wicket with three men out last night, and the Kiwis were still going after the ball. England almost got carried away with the excitement of the day."
England didn't bowl well - Agnew
England may have taken eight wickets yesterday, but their bowling didn't impress BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew.
"England's problem was bowling too short, not full enough to get maximum assistance from the Headingley pitch," Agnew writes in his BBC Sport column.
"Even if England are committed to playing aggressive cricket, there has to be a time when they can slow the game down, bowl maidens, dry up the runs and they were unable to do that."
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Geoffrey Boycott
Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special
"New Zealand are placed OK, but not special. If England had bowled really well and caught their catches, they could have bowled them out for 200. Groundsmen have to produce a pitch which allows people to express themselves, they did it at Lord's and they've done it here."
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BBC Radio Test Match Special
New Zealand opener Tom Latham on Test Match Special: "To be eight down with nearly 300 on the board, I think we are in a reasonably good position. I think it's pretty even. It is not an easy wicket.
"Towards the end, I struggled a little bit, the lengths they bowled and the lines they bowled, were a lot better after tea. I felt like a cat, there were a few lives there, but that's cricket."
Cool Hand Luke
Anderson may have stolen the headlines with his milestone wicket, but Day One belonged to a man with 103 fewer Test caps: New Zealand wicket-keeper Luke Ronchi. At 34, he's had to wait longer than most for his Test debut, but boy did he make the most of it.
The former Australian international played a brilliantly refreshing innings of 88 off just 70 balls, mixing superb timing with outrageous panache.
He was eventually dismissed twelve runs short of what would have probably been the fastest ever century on Test debut, with Shikhar Dhawan's mark of 85 balls firmly in his sights.
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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special
"It was exciting cricket yesterday - in the six days of the series so far, you've got two teams playing with an aggressive nature, especially New Zealand and their captain. After a nought in the second innings, he comes out and hits his first ball for six. England didn't bowl well - if you keep hitting off stump at Leeds, something will happen. That's the sort of line and length you require at Headingley."
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Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at Headingley
"Much more pleasant in Leeds today. Cool, but no imminent threat of rain. Plenty buzz around the city centre, looking for a way to get to the cricket. No fancy dress spotted yet, but Headingley will be like a zoo. I promise it will be lively."
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BBC Radio Test Match Special
England pace bowler James Anderson on Test Match Special, reflecting on his 400th Test wicket: "I think it makes you think about all the hard yards you put in over the years, makes all that hard work seem worthwhile. To be among guys I looked up to and watched as a kid, in and around those great players is a bit surreal, but great at the same time."
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Jimmy 400
Jimmy Anderson is ticking off landmarks like a tourist on a moped at the moment. In the West Indies, we saw him overtake Ian Botham to become England's all-time leading wicket-taker, then yesterday, he knocked over Martin Guptill for Test wicket number 400.
That brought him high praise from most quarters, but not from his colleague Stuart Broad, who rather uncharitably tweeted: "He's talking me through his 400th Test pole. Wobble seam I think, he's says 'effort ball.'"
Weather forecast
After one of those frustratingly stop-start, rain-affected days yesterday, I'm sure you're all anxious to know what the weather gods have got in store for us today.
Well, it's good news, with the forecast accurately described by my colleague Mark Mitchener as "not quite scorchio but not far off".
Sunshine is the order of the day so, fingers crossed, we should see a full day's play today.
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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special
"I've just spoken to the great Dickie Bird, who knows everything about Headingley, and he said there's a lot of runs out there. There's a little bit of green grass left on the pitch, but it's dry."
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Hello and welcome to live text commentary of day two of the second Test between England and New Zealand at Headingley.
As we mentioned, honours are fairly even after day one, with New Zealand closing on 297-8.
We will resume with Mark Craig and Matt Henry at the crease for the tourists, Stuart Broad chasing a five-for, and England looking to get batting as soon as possible.
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