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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor: "The challenge is, 'How do we create that normalising of women's sport in the media, in chats in the pub, at school, so that women can fulfil their dreams, whether that's at professional or recreational level?' The commercialisation of women's sport is growing, and for team sports, that's new territory. It's breaking new ground and numbers are growing at every level."

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Stewart, Halesowen: With the debate around a fourth-innings highest score being needed (and also looking at each innings total from the first Test at Lord's) are we increasingly beginning to see a subtle merging of the one-day batting style of play with the traditional Test style? Perhaps many of the New Zealand players are a fine example of this blend which others will do well to observe?

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor, on the scheduling of the women's Ashes: "The men's and women's Ashes this summer will be going on simultaneously, but there will be no clashes. We knew that we would get great support from BBC Radio and Sky television if we scheduled them in that way, so that the media can really tell the story. Sky will broadcast its first women's Test match. It shows how far we've come that we've been able to do that."

Will in London: Re: Henry Ellison. The suggestion that Bell is or should be under pressure is ridiculous. He's our second most experienced batsman, has four tons against the Aussies and has only had about three bad Tests since his last hundred. Plus the only alternative in the middle order who has any real experience is a certain South African. And we all know how the ECB feel about him!

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor: "It's great that Sport England and the government are challenging sports to think differently. We've done some really ground-breaking at the elite end with the England women's team, but we have to make sure that as a governing body we're growing a really robust grass-roots landscape for women and girls."

Paul Lancashire: If everyone gets their Test average we'll get 432. Such a long batting line-up and plenty of time left - this isn't over yet.

Stuart Mitchell: Whilst this scoring rate is brilliant for England (so far) it only takes one wicket to set off an England collapse.

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ECB head of women's cricket Clare Connor: "Cricket has to think differently about how it presents its offer to women. They want fun, they want sociability, they want small-sided quick competitions. So the traditional offer with a hard ball, isn't always appealing. So we are trying to present cricket in a different way and expand the reach of the game."

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This lunchtime, Test Match Special are speaking to ECB's head of women's cricket and ex-England captain Clare Connor to mark the inaugural Women's Sport Week.

Frank Foley: If England score 454 & are all out with the last ball of the match, is that regarded as a tie? Has there ever been such a tie?

Something for Andrew to work out.

Well, that was a ragged session from England. Their hopes of restricting New Zealand to a chaseable lead were torn to shreds in a manic hour of gloriously frenzied tail-end batting.

Mark Craig and Tim Southee did the damage as New Zealand got up to 454-8, with lower-order shotmaking, not for the first time in this series, reducing bowlers' best-laid plans to rubble. Brendon McCullum called his men in with half an hour left in the session, and England set about the Herculean task of saving, or even winning, this match.

They did at least get off to a good start, with Adam Lyth and Alastair Cook keeping Tim Southee and Trent Boult at bay with some resolute, positive batting.

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Duncan Bradshaw: McCullum well within his rights to bat on this morning as his tail were scoring freely, plenty of time still in this game.

John Carver: Re. Alan Strawford 12:51 why would McCullum have declared any earlier? Cook had less than a day to bowl them out, McCullum 2!

England 32-0 (9 overs) - target 455

Batsmen: Lyth 15*, Cook 15*

Bowling figures: Boult 5-0-17-0, Southee 3-1-13-0, Craig 1-0-1-0.

New Zealand first innings 350: Ronchi 88, Latham 84; Broad 5-109

England first innings 350: Lyth 107, Cook 75, Broad 46; Southee 4-83

New Zealand second innings 454-8 dec: Watling 120, Guptill 70; Wood 3-97

Full scorecard

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Charlie in London: This situation has England at 100-0 and then 150 all out written all over it. Classic hope and then desolation situation for us England fans.

Keith: But seriously if we are only 2 down tonight it will be game on.

Ryan: I'm only a recent follower of cricket but I get the feeling that if England do somehow manage it the Twitterati will still criticise them for getting into that position in the first place.

Cook is batting with real authority here and plays a superb flick-pull off one leg to dispatch Boult to the boundary. So far the New Zealand seamer hasn't looked at his venomous best, and England's opening pair have survived to lunch.

Chris, Leeds: What is the highest unsuccessful fourth-innings run chase? I think we could be record breaking losers today.

The highest losing score was New Zealand's 451 all out, chasing 550, against England in Christchurch in 2002, when Nathan Astle smashed 222 from 168 balls. The highest fourth-innings score of all time, external was England's 654-5 (chasing 696) against South Africa in the famous Timeless Test in Durban in 1939 which was abandoned as a draw at tea on the 10th day so England could catch their ship home.

Time for a bit of tweak before lunch, as Brendon McCullum introduces Mark Craig, who has had a brilliant Test match so far. He'll have plenty of work to do in this fourth innings. His second ball is a beauty, turning sharply out of the footholes and beating the bat of Cook. More problems for Cook as he props forward to another sharp off-break and is struck on the back pad - he survives a half-hearted appeal.

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At lunch today, Test Match Special will be marking the inaugural Women's Sport Week, external by speaking to ex-England captain Clare Connor, who is now the ECB's head of women's cricket.

You can read more about Women's Sport Week on the BBC Sport website - where there's also a quiz.

Ooh, that's a dangerous game to play from Adam Lyth, following an away-swinging delivery for Trent Boult, but he plays it well, riding the bounce and forcing through the off side for three. This is a good, solid start by England.

Richard, Bromsgrove: The big problem we have is that England will need about a month to score 455 runs. Who do we need to speak to about extending the match?

Toby FG in London: Well done and thank you New Zealand for providing such a fabulous advertisement for Test cricket. Administrators - please take note and give them more than two Tests next time!

Alan Strawford, a frustrated Essex fan: What a different a week makes, last week when positions were reversed TMS 'experts' ridicule Ali Cook for not declaring, this week, with bad weather looming not a word against golden boy McCullum.

New Zealand didn't bowl that well with the first new ball in England's first innings - they'll want to make better use of the shiny cherry this time around. Southee is getting some decent shape, but it's predominantly back in to the left-handed Alastair Cook, rather than moving away to draw the edge. Cook blocks and leaves his way through a maiden.