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. Postpublished at 11:28 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  2. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 11:28 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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!

  3. NZ 346-9published at 11:28 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  4. Postpublished at 11:23 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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?"

  5. Postpublished at 11:23 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  6. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 11:23 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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?

  7. NZ 337-9 (Stokes 16-4-66-1)published at 11:23 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  8. Postpublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  9. Postpublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  10. NZ 328-9 (Craig 24, Boult 10)published at 11:19 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  11. Postpublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  12. NZ 317-9published at 11:14 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  13. Postpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  14. Postpublished at 11:10 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  15. WICKETpublished at 11:08 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

    Stuart BroadImage source, Getty Images
  16. Join the debate at #bbccricketpublished at 11:04 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    Michael Vaughan
    Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    On Twitter:, external Full house... Nice weather... Horses... Where's Wally... Her Majesty... And the Teletubbies... Saturday of the Headingley Test!

  17. Text 81111published at 11:04 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

  18. NZ 304-8 (Craig 16, Henry 21)published at 11:03 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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.

    Matt HenryImage source, Getty Images
  19. Postpublished at 10:59 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."

  20. Postpublished at 10:59 British Summer Time 30 May 2015

    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."