Summary

  • Bad light ends day four with NZ 42-0

  • New Zealand need 382 to win

  • Would be NZ's highest Test run chase, seventh highest overall

  • Latham dropped by Vince on 23

  • England 352-9 declared (Root 54, Malan 53)

  • Second Test (NZ lead series 1-0)

  1. Postpublished at 02:42 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    If Mark Wood stays in the team there will have to be an adjustment to the batting order. Those are two cracking boundaries.

  2. Eng 312-7published at 99.5 overs

    Shot! Mark Wood pulls Colin de Grandhomme for four and then wanders down the wicket, watching the ball go racing into the ropes.

    He's in decent nick, and proves it with a lovely cover drive that goes racing away for four!

  3. Postpublished at 02:38 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Bryan Waddle
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Bairstow looks in trouble partly because New Zealand are bowling wider and he has to try and score so he's playing and missing more.

  4. Eng 303-7published at 99 overs

    Wood 1, Bairstow 9

    A late cut from Jonny Bairstow brings a single, before it's Mark Wood's turn to be beaten by a Trent Boult delivery that slips past the edge of the bat.

    The telly is just showing the conversation between Stuart Broad and Wood as they crossed paths on Wood's way out to bat. "It's starting to swing a bit" is the main gist of it.

  5. Postpublished at 02:35 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    After being so fluent in the first innings, Jonny Bairstow is struggling out there.

  6. Eng 302-7published at 98 overs

    Lead by 331

    Two singles start the latest Colin de Grandhomme over, although Jonny Bairstow gets beaten again as he looks to drive.

    De Grandhomme goes full and straight and Mark Wood stoically defends.

  7. View from the press boxpublished at 02:33 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Simon WildeImage source, Twitter
  8. Postpublished at 02:31 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It was a return catch of sorts but that would have been one of the great catches had Boult clung on.

  9. dropped catch

    Bairstow dropped on 7published at 97 overs

    Eng 300-7

    Close!

    It's a difficult chance for Trent Boult, but he's taken some screamers of his own bowling. Jonny Bairstow tries to bunt him back down the pitch but doesn't time it, and instead it comes Boult's way.

    Boult is moving to his right as the ball comes to the left and, though he tries to adjust at the last minute and gets a hand to it, he can't cling on.

    Trent Boult fails to take a return catchImage source, Getty Images
  10. Postpublished at 02:31 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    We always think of overcast conditions being good for bowling, and that's what we've got at the moment.

  11. Eng 300-7published at 96.4 overs

    An audible "ooft" from Jonny Bairstow as Trent Boult swings a delivery just past the edge of the bat.

    And again! This is excellent from Boult, just getting the ball to nip around.

  12. Eng 300-7published at 96 overs

    De Grandhomme 23-2-73-3

    Mark Wood, fresh off the back of a maiden Test half-century, sees out the over.

    Looking at that replay, Colin de Grandhomme held the ball back a bit and Broad just went through the shot too quickly. It hit the toe-end of the bat as it bobbled up to Ish Sodhi.

  13. Postpublished at 02:27 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Another wicket for De Grandhomme in the leg trap. Quite a good catch, as he mishit it, and it was hard to judge how quickly it came to him. A slower ball, so we give De Grandhomme credit for a clever piece of bowling.

  14. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 95.5 overs

    Broad c Sodhi b De Grandhomme 12 (Eng 300-7)

    And that's the end of Stuart Broad's cameo!

    Colin de Grandhomme, maybe bristling at being hit for 11 runs by Stuart Broad, bowls a slower ball and Broad guides it straight to a diving Ish Sodhi at mid-off. Broad looks thoroughly unimpressed as he walks off.

    Stuart BroadImage source, Getty Images
  15. Eng 300-6published at 95.4 overs

    England are definitely trying to up the ante, as Jonny Bairstow calls Stuart Broad through for a speedy leg bye.

    That's an absolute slog from Broad, and it's brought him another four!

  16. Postpublished at 02:23 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Broad will know his best bet is to stay aggressive.

  17. Eng 295-6published at 95.2 overs

    Shot! You forget Stuart Broad can actually play some very nice shots - that's a delightful drive off Colin de Grandhomme for four.

    That's, er, not quite so pretty, an inside edge that skims through mid-wicket, but it brings Broad another three.

  18. Eng 288-6published at 95 overs

    Lead by 317

    An edge from Stuart Broad, but it bounces just in front of a tumbling Tim Southee at slip, and he nabs a single.

    Jonny Bairstow then adds insult to injury with a dreamy cover drive that races away for four.

  19. Postpublished at 02:20 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    When the review system first came in, the old-timer umpires didn't like it. Now they hate it when sides run out of reviews, because there's no safety valve.

    Umpires Marais Erasmus and Bruce OxenfordImage source, Getty Images
  20. Eng 283-6published at 94.2 overs

    New Zealand did rather waste their reviews earlier in the innings. There's just the slightest of noises there as Jonny Bairstow just pushed at the ball.

    A wry smile from Kane Williamson, who covers his face with his hat. Bairstow nabs a single to keep things ticking along.