Summary

  • Bad light curtails play with England 202-3 (231 ahead)

  • Vince falls for 76 from 128 balls

  • Stoneman (60) reprieved by DRS on 35; dropped on 48 & 57

  • NZ 278 all out - England lead by 29 on first innings

  • Broad (6-54) takes first five-wicket haul for two years; Anderson 4-76

  • Watling 85, Southee 50 (48 balls)

  • Second Test (NZ lead series 1-0)

  1. Postpublished at 05:03 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    Stoneman has scored a lot very square on both sides of the wicket. He's not scored many straight down the ground - so I'd be asking my bowlers to pitch it up a bit straighter.

  2. Eng 141-1published at 05:03 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Stoneman 57, Vince 68

    Stoneman batters it into the covers but a half-stop means he can only pick up one. It's good enough for him to set a new Test best score though.

    He's gone past his previous mark of 56, scored at Perth during the Ashes, which feels like millennia ago.

  3. Postpublished at 05:00 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Bryan Waddle
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    At the moment, batting's looked as easy as it has in the final session of each day.

  4. Eng 138-1published at 05:00 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Lead by 167

    Yeesh. The other side of James Vince's game returns - the wafty drive at a wide one. He doesn't nick it though.

    And here is the eye-catching element once again, Vince punching a Southee inswinger back through long on for a delicious boundary.

  5. Postpublished at 04:56 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    You watch Vince, and if you took his whole innings and just edited out a couple of bad bits, you’d think he’s a remarkable player. It's odd the way that he's moved up the order, despite not really justifying it - they needed a number three for the Ashes, so they took a punt on moving him up there.

  6. Postpublished at 04:56 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    We know Vince can drive a ball, but it’s the hooking I’ve been impressed with, controlling the stroke. I wonder what he’d be like at five or six, to break up the left-handers.

  7. Eng 130-1published at 40 overs

    Stoneman 55, Vince 59

    Vince plays a deft low pull away towards the fence but the ball slows up and he settles for three.

  8. Eng 126-1published at 39 overs

    Vince and Stoneman add a single apiece off the rest of the over.

  9. 50 runs

    50 for Stonemanpublished at 38.1 overs

    Stoneman continues to play loosely after tea as he brings up his fifty.

    It's wide from Southee and Stoneman flashes at it, top edging over the slips and away for four.

    He accumulated well before the break but it's streaky stuff from Stoneman since tea. Can he settle now he's gone past 50?

    That's also the century stand between Stoneman and Vince.

  10. Postpublished at 04:47 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Something's happening since tea - New Zealand are forcing the odd error.

    You look at that mistimed drive from Vince, and you think they should have an extra slip in.

  11. Eng 120-1published at 04:46 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Stoneman makes another error after tea, inside edging one through his legs and away for a single.

    De Grandhomme then draws Vince into a miscued drive but it runs away safely.

  12. Postpublished at 04:44 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    I don't think England will feel comfortable with a lead of less than 400 - we may well be in similar conditions this time tomorrow. And we may not get all the overs in today because of the light. But I think we're going to see some interesting cricket.

  13. Eng 119-1published at 37 overs

    Lead by 148

    Vince can't work Southee away and plays out a maiden.

  14. Eng 119-1published at 36.2 overs

    No evidence that Vince nicked that and, sure enough, it stays with the on-field decision.

    On Vince goes.

  15. Postpublished at 04:41 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    Has the bat got outside the pads? It certainly touched the thigh guard - there's a ruffle of the trousers. There's a mark on the bat, but it's too high, up on the splice.

    Having been given not out, there's got to be enough to overturn the on-field umpire. And I don't think there is.

  16. Postpublished at 04:41 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    It definitely flicks the trousers but not immediately apparent there is any mark on Vince's bat.

    I don't think there is anything there to overturn the on-field decision.

  17. Postpublished at 04:40 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Don't tell me we're going to have another strangle down the leg side...

    Tim Southee appeals for the wicket of James VinceImage source, Reuters
  18. NZ reviewpublished at 36.2 overs

    James Vince chases one that slides down the leg side and New Zealand go up for caught behind.

    Not given but the Kiwis are convinced and Kane Williamson reviews straight away.

    "So woody," says BJ Watling about how it sounded.

  19. Eng 119-1published at 36 overs

    Stoneman wisely just defends the last ball.

  20. Postpublished at 04:38 British Summer Time 1 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    Because Watling likes to stand a little bit deep and take the ball below his knees, that forces first slip back a little - so I don't think that first one would have carried to first slip, had there been one standing there.

    But that second one was a drop. It was a two-handed catch, he went for it one-handed.