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Daily Express's Gideon Brooks on TMS: "Trevor Bayliss has worked with a lot of Australia's players, he's going to know their weaknesses."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

The Sun's John Etheridge on TMS: "I maintain all the time that the Ashes won't be the bloodbath that everybody expects. There are one or two questions about Australia: Ryan Harris' ageing knees; Mitchell Starc has never done it with the red ball; the captain and the coach don't get on; the captain doesn't get on with a lot of people..."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

The Independent's Stephen Brenkley on TMS: "Poor old Moeen can't string two overs together. The only alternative could be Rashid of Yorkshire. He bowls a lot of bad balls, and he made himself unpickable as the one spinner after that game in St Kitts. But to introduce him into an Ashes series is a big step."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

The Sun's John Etheridge on TMS: "It's the lack of spin which is the biggest concern."

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"England's decision not to pick Kevin Pietersen may have been made when Ian Bell was scoring runs, and numbers three, four and five were all in form. Yet here we are talking about number four - his position."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

The Independent's Stephen Brenkley on TMS: "Players are not going to be jettisoned on the back of three or four bad innings. But on the other hand, is there anyone else around? I'm worried about the seam bowling, I'm worried about Broad, I'm worried about the spinner."

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Daily Express's Gideon Brooks on TMS: "Bell is a massive worry going forward. He has got all the technical ability - the only way he can fail is from a mental point of view. It's showing in all areas of his game.

"England are going to have to take a leap of faith with Bell for the Ashes. I suspect they will because of a lack of credible alternatives - and he has got a lot of credit in the bank."

Matt, on the way to work: All this talk of Bell and Ballance being dropped. Lest we forget, Bell basically won us the Ashes in 2013 and both have scored tons in the recent Windies series. Cook was given two years between tons. I think therefore it's a bit unfair to consider them for the chop.

BBC Radio Test Match Special

The Independent's Stephen Brenkley on TMS: "Ian Bell needs to do something before the Ashes, whether it's playing for Warwickshire or going to work with Gary Palmer perhaps. Gary Ballance is a greater worry, he looks like he's wearing diving boots at the moment. Bowlers do find out about you."

Jonathan Agnew
BBC Test Match Special

"You couldn't get more of a sharp graph than England - Grenada up, Barbados down, Lord's up, Headingley probably down."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

The Sun's John Etheridge on TMS: "It was obvious nonsense from Joe Root last night. It's good to be positive but I largely ignored his comments and focused on the problems of Bell and Ballance."

BBC Radio Test Match Special

Aggers has been joined by Stephen Brenkley from the Independent, John Etheridge from the Sun and Gideon Brooks from the Daily Express.

Former England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: Massive trouble for England in the Test! New Zealand have been aggressive the whole way through. Love this exciting brand of Test cricket.

England put down four catches in the New Zealand second innings. Meanwhile, Chris Jordan, arguably their best fielder but deemed surplus to requirements for the Test series, was taking stunners like this for Sussex to remove Nottinghamshire's Steven Mullaney.

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Stand by on TMS - after a check on the county scores, Aggers has assembled his journalists' panel to chew the fat over England.

England 102-5 (45 overs) - target 455, min 66 overs left

Batsmen: Cook 40*, Buttler 0*

Fall of wickets: 47-1 (Lyth 24), 61-2 (Ballance 6), 52-3 (Bell 1), 62-4 (Root 0), 102-5 (Stokes 29)

Bowling figures: Boult 16-2-43-2, Southee 9-3-25-0, Craig 17-7-23-2, Henry 2-0-9-0, Williamson 1-0-1-1

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Michael Vaughan
Ex-England captain on BBC Test Match Special

"England have just not been at the races. They've not been anywhere near the level they were at Lord's. In the pressure zone that New Zealand are putting them in, they've been nowhere near their best.

"But the way the Kiwis are going about their business, it is a joy to watch."

But let's not take any credit away from New Zealand. They've bowled intelligently, while captain Brendon McCullum's field places and bowling changes have been excellent.

If you missed it in all the clatter of wickets earlier, Ian Bell was caught at leg slip after a fielder had been posted there for that very delivery.

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Craig is swiftly back on at the other end, Cook is hit on the pad and there's a huge appeal for lbw as he played forward, but the impact looked to be outside the line. He survives, but a miserable session for England, in which they have added 58 runs for the loss of five wickets, ends.