Summary

  • England slip from 215-1 to 247-5

  • Cook 75, Lyth 107 - maiden Test century

  • Cook now England's top Test run scorer

  • NZ 350: Ronchi 88; Broad 5-109

  • 2nd Test, day 2, Headingley; Eng lead 1-0

  1. Eng 12-0 (trail by 338)published at 12:02 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  2. Eng 10-0 (Lyth 6, Cook 4)published at 11:59 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  3. Email tms@bbc.co.ukpublished at 11:57 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  4. Eng 9-0published at 11:55 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  5. Postpublished at 11:51 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  6. Text 81111published at 11:51 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  7. Eng 9-0 (Lyth 5, Cook 4)published at 11:51 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  8. Postpublished at 11:47 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  9. Eng 5-0published at 11:46 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

    Adam LythImage source, Getty Images
  10. Postpublished at 11:43 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    Adam Lyth to take strike to the first ball. Trent Boult to deliver it...

  11. Postpublished at 11:42 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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?"

    Fancy dressImage source, AP
  12. Postpublished at 11:42 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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...

    New Zealand fielders huddleImage source, Getty Images
  13. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 11:39 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  14. Innings reviewpublished at 11:39 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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...

  15. Text 81111published at 11:39 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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?

  16. Postpublished at 11:35 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  17. WICKETpublished at 11:33 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

    Trent BoultImage source, PA
  18. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 11:32 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  19. NZ 350-9 (Craig 41, Boult 15)published at 11:32 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

    Mark CraigImage source, Getty Images