And that, folks is us done for the day.

If you're just waking up and wondering what you've missed then the report is over here.

Play starts at 23:00 BST tomorrow, and we'll be back bright and early (if that makes sense) around then. Thanks for your company - until tonight!

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Vince bats gorgeously - but then misses straight balls or nicks them, and there's only so long you can go on with that. And Alastair Cook will be scratching his head - someone with 12,000 Test runs shouldn't have got out to a ball like he did.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Stoneman and Vince are both Test-class players in there somewhere, but I don't think they believe they think they are. If Vince had gone on and got that hundred in Brisbane, he might have believed it. Stoneman especially, I feel everyone's losing faith in him, but I like the way he bats - I thought this was the day he'd go on, but then he got out.

More from Jonny Bairstow: "I'm coming in on different surfaces, against different attacks and have got to play in different ways so it's case of gauging the scenario. I've done it a few times now - sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong. I wouldn't be on 97 not out without what the guys at the other end did today.

"Naturally I wanted to get to the century but I'm in a position to come back tomorrow and Leach showed he can hold up an end so who knows how many we could make.

"It's difficult to rate our score until we've bowled on this pitch. The skills we've got will hopefully suit this pitch, it's a bit more English in style, with some lateral movement."

Michael Wright: England’s batting at crisis point. Can’t see how the answer is to bring in Vince?

Jonny Bairstow, speaking to Sky Sports: "My head is fine, it serves me right for getting in the way of it.

"It didn't go to script for the first half of the day but the fightback and the determination in the back end was something we can really build on.

"When you're rebuilding you don't think too much about it. If you overthink it you can get yourself into trouble. The discipline that Ben Stokes showed outside off stump was exceptional and then Mark Wood's cameo - what a character, it's always fun batting with him and he played some magnificent shots.

"He wants to impress because he's back in the side and once things go right your adrenaline gets up and it can tip you over the edge. It was just a case of keeping him going ball by ball."

Matt Chauhan: Good knock from Bairstow & team improvement... main worry is consistency of getting in & getting out of all top/mid order.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Jonny Bairstow has been such a good player for England over the last couple of years, I was so pleased he didn't get out in the last over as it wasn't what the team needed. There's no need, with Jack Leach around, that he couldn't press on tomorrow and take the score to 350.

Sam Roberts: Nice to see Neil Wagner knows how to target the batsman’s stumps. I’d be surprised if he bowled a total of six balls that would have hit them.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

I don't think Bairstow could ever go to three or four - as he likes that drive early on. Against an oldish ball as the bowlers get tired, he's very effective. Ish Sodhi overpitched once to him - and he hit him over extra cover for six.

Bernard, London: Certainly need to move Bairstow up the order, but surely we wouldn’t need a specialist keeper? Alec Stewart opened, kept, and at times captained?

Graham in Thailand: I think it's time to let Cook go he is no longer up to the job. I watch a fair bit of county cricket and I really think Luke Wells has the ability to step up to Test match cricket. He has a good technique and is capable of batting for long periods and has a strong mind.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

When it was 94-5, England's best two players at the moment were in the middle - Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes. And at 164-7 it really was New Zealand's day, but then Mark Wood joined Bairstow. He really made the New Zealanders chase his wicket, got to 30 and then cut loose. A lot of batsmen could look at him and see how he played the spinner. Jack Leach played really well, and Bairstow's still there - so the game's finely poised.

Welcome if you've just woken up - here's a recap of the day.

New Zealand won the toss and put this vulnerable, uncertain England batting line-up in, with Alastair Cook bowled for just two by Trent Boult.

The recalled James Vince looked good but got out cheaply - as you may have read elsewhere this winter - before Joe Root and Mark Stoneman combined to take England to 93-2.

The tourists then shipped three wickets for just one run in nine balls, with Ben Stokes and Jonny Bairstow leading a brief recovery before the former flicked at one down leg and was caught.

Stuart Broad then departed with a dire shot, batting at number eight for the first time in five years, and England were in trouble again at 164-7.

Enter Mark Wood, who hit a thrilling maiden Test fifty in support of the superb Bairstow to rescue England's day.

Wood finally fell for 52 but debutant Jack Leach has looked compact and organised, getting through to the close with Bairstow, who ends unbeaten on 97 overnight.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

Jonny Bairstow's been exceptional all day. I'm very impressed with Jack Leach on debut, and it was a brilliant maiden fifty from Mark Wood after a very weak dismissal for Stuart Broad. A pretty good day in the end, pretty even stevens.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

I've enjoyed the day. The conditions were set up for batting but we know what England's confidence is like at the moment and New Zealand decided to prey on that.

No century before the close for Jonny Bairstow as he punches off the back foot to cover, playing out a maiden on 97.

A terrific knock from the England keeper, ably supported by Mark Wood's 52 to rescue England from yet another ropey collapse.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special commentator

It looks as though he's taking Graeme's advice here.

Yet another short ball and Bairstow ducks under it. Final ball coming up...

Wagner drops short again and Bairstow sensibly sways away.