Summary

  • Match drawn - NZ win series 1-0

  • Broad takes wickets with first two balls of day five

  • Jack Leach takes his first Test wickets

  • NZ needed theoretical 382 to win

  1. Postpublished at 02:22 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    At the moment, there's barely a cloud in the sky above Hagley Oval. If the weather stayed like this, we'll get most of them in. But I doubt we'll get them all in.

    Hagley OvalImage source, Getty Images
  2. NZ 125-4published at 54 overs

    Broad 14-5-33-2

    Short from Stuart Broad, and BJ Watling cracks it away off the back foot, but a fielder is in place to cut it off.

    Solid defence from Watling, and he sees out the over.

  3. Postpublished at 02:19 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Latham has played very well - he hasn't just battened down the hatches, he's frustrated Leach as he's slog-swept him and slightly disrupted his rhythm. He'll be playing for Durham very shortly.

    Simon Mann adds: This is a bit like playing at Durham - in terms of the setting rather than the temperature.

  4. NZ 125-4published at 53.1 overs

    Latham 66, Watling 15

    Stuart Broad bowls Tom Latham a very similar delivery to the one that did for Jeet Raval this morning.

    Latham plays it much better, mind, clipping it around the corner for a single.

  5. Postpublished at 02:18 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    I do wonder what England are going to do when James Anderson and Stuart Broad call it a day.

    Who can the captain turn to and rely on not just to take wickets, but to keep the pressure on? I have a lot of time for Mark Wood - and he'll be understandably rusty when it comes to the red ball game, but he's not had the best game here.

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    Melody Lee: We have been struggling to take 20 wickets recently with Anderson and Broad playing. It scares me how we will do it without them looking forward.

    Mikey: Surely Hameed should get a recall for the summer to open with Cook.

  7. NZ 124-4published at 53 overs

    Trail by 258

    BJ Watling takes a bit of a blow in the midriff from James Anderson, but hops back into line and plays out a tame maiden.

    There's 27 overs until the new ball is available.

  8. Postpublished at 02:14 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    James Anderson has had a terrific but gruelling winter. He'll have a break after this game - I don't think he'll be playing for Lancashire too soon - and they'll want to make sure Anderson and Broad are available when the new ball is due.

  9. NZ 124-4published at 52.1 overs

    BJ Watling avoids a repeat of the morning session by safely patting away the first ball from James Anderson.

  10. Postpublished at 02:13 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    The players are on their way back out - England are in a huddle, while Tom Latham is giving the sky a firm stare.

    By the looks of things, it'll be James Anderson to start things after lunch.

  11. Postpublished at 02:09 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Right, then. England have a chance to win their first away Test since October 2016, and end what has been a fairly gruelling winter on a relative positive note.

    Marks out of 10 for England's winter? I'd probably give them a 4/10, in terms of Test cricket. The white-ball side has been much more successful.

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    David Grimwood: Whatever the outcome, New Zealand vs England should be a three-Test series in future.

  13. Postpublished at 02:02 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I think, in this last innings, Cook was trying to be a bit more positive in the way he approaches run scoring and his footwork. He's not going to fail for the lack of hard work, and going into the nets and agonising.

    But at the moment, if you mention those three giants - Cook, Anderson and Broad - and thinking about the 2019 Ashes, Cook is the outsider of the trio to last that long.

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    Karl Barrett: I'd still like to see Moeen in the Test team, such a beautiful batsman on his day, just wasn't sure of his role in the team. Want to see him get some first-class games and really get his confidence up.

  15. Vince at five?published at 01:59 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    BBC Test Match Special

    Daily Mirror's Dean Wilson: "I think Mark Stoneman and James Vince have probably done enough to keep going for now. I think Stoneman has found Test cricket quite tough, and I think he's doubting himself more now than he was at the start of his career.

    "He looks, to me, like a player a little bit out of form. But they've chopped and changed so many times. I do think they want to give Stoneman and Vince the absolute most opportunities they can do to see if one of them, or both of them, can go on.

    "Vince makes batting look incredibly easy at times - I just think that if he's a Test match batsman he's a number five, rather than an number three."

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    Andrew Taylor: Bairstow to bat number three or four and a calm, talented keeper to bat around number seven and judge reviews? Just saying...

  17. Postpublished at 01:54 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    I think Broad might have said to us somewhere that he was rubbish in Australia. Most cricketers brush that off, that they're just going through a bit of bad form. But that element of humility, and grim determination to say that this isn't good enough and I'm not going to survive for another year unless I do something, so he's gone away and something's clicked.

  18. 'Broad has transformed from Ashes'published at 01:51 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    BBC Test Match Special

    The Sun's John Etheridge: "Stuart Broad has transformed from the bowler we saw in Australia. It's good to see that someone with over 400 wickets can go back and work and get a feel back for bowling.

    "Kudos to him for making the effort to do that. It's easy to rest on your laurels but no, he's gone back and made significant changes to his action."

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  19. How's stat - First-over hat-trickspublished at 01:48 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Andrew SamsonImage source, Twitter
  20. Postpublished at 01:44 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

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    The Sun's John Etheridge: "Chris Woakes has been dropped, Mark Wood, by and large, has been disappointing in this game, Ben Stokes is just getting back to bowling fitness.

    "Beyond Broad and Anderson, yet again, the question is what is there?"