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. NZ 49-2published at 23:46 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Latham 25, Taylor 6

    England have four slips, a gully and a leg slip for Ross Taylor. And for good reason - Stuart Broad has got him out 10 times in Test matches.

    Taylor gets the first boundary of the day though - driving through vacant mid-on to the fence.

    Ooft! Broad gets one to nip off the seam and beat the outside edge. Maybe a touch of reverse swing there too.

    Taylor the flicks off his pads for two.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 23:42 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

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    Mark Gidman: "I'll just watch the first over before bed". Stuart Broad takes two wickets - all-nighter it is then.

    Trevor Hilton: Great start to the day's play when England take two wickets before the Barmy Army sing Jerusalem.

  3. NZ 43-2published at 25 overs

    James Anderson starts round the wicket to Tom Latham, who has witnessed utter devastation at the non-striker's end so far today.

    And Anderson starts with a no ball, giving New Zealand their first run of the day.

    Anderson follows it with six tidy dot balls.

  4. How's stat?!published at 23:40 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    It's the first time Kane Williamson's got a first-baller in Tests in his 116th innings.

    No-one's ever taken a hat-trick with the first three balls of a day's play, but there was a game in 1936 when a team needed two wickets to win and did it with the first two balls of the day.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 23:37 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

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    Melissa Story: SO WORTH STAYING UP FOR !!

    David Merson: You just couldn't make this up.

  6. NZ 42-2published at 24 overs

    Target 382

    Taylor fends off the rest of the over - a double wicket maiden by Broad. Simply magical.

    And Kane Williamson already back in the hutch means England's chances of victory have vastly improved.

  7. Postpublished at 23:36 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    The first ball was a rank half-volley, but the second was a beauty.

  8. NZ 42-2published at 23.3 overs

    And breathe.

    Stuart Broad goes full and Ross Taylor shuffles across to defend the ball into the leg side.

    Still, what a manically brilliant start to this fifth day.

  9. Postpublished at 23:34 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Here's Ross Taylor to face the hat-trick ball.

    Five slips, every other man in a catching position around the bat.

    Here we go...

  10. How's stat?!published at 23:34 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Nobody's ever taken three hat-tricks in their Test career. Broad's taken two.

  11. Postpublished at 23:34 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Is this going to be one of those Stuart Broad days? Williamson wanted to get bat on ball, credit to him for walking off as he didn't get a massive nick. I'm sure Ross Taylor will not have had his pads on a minute ago. Perfect start for England.

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    WICKETpublished at 23.2 overs

    Williamson c Bairstow b Broad 0 (NZ 42-2)

    OH MY DAYS! What an unbelievable start by Stuart Broad.

    This one is a peach - lifting sharply from just back of a length, fired down the corridor of uncertainty and Kane Williamson fends at it, nicking behind for a golden duck.

    A massive wicket, the Kiwi captain gone first ball.

    Broad is on a hat-trick!

    Stuart Broad celebratesImage source, Reuters
  13. Postpublished at 23:32 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It really was a slow, loopy half-volley, similar to the one Ben Stokes got out to yesterday. The Barmy Army haven't even had time to sing "Jerusalem" yet, which they normally do after the first ball.

  14. Postpublished at 23:32 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

    What an extraordinary start! No-one out there can believe it.

  15. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 23.1 overs

    Raval c Stoneman b Broad 17 (NZ 42-1)

    Gone first ball!

    Stuart Broad sends down a half volley on leg stump and Jeet Raval flicks it straight to Mark Stoneman at square leg.

    What a bonus. It was a really loose delivery by Broad.

    Broad and Anderson zipped several pearlers past Raval's outside edge last night and it's a ball like that that does for him in the end.

    Stuart Broad celebratesImage source, Reuters
  16. Postpublished at 23:30 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    So yes, the first ball of day five will be bowled momentarily.

    It'll be Stuart Broad to Jeet Raval first up...

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    Richard Stoker: Could they not have planned to start the day's play at 10am and delayed it 30 minutes if there was dew?

    It's all down to the playing conditions which both sides agreed at the start of the series.

  18. Postpublished at 23:27 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Graeme Swann
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    Nearly every captain I had was convinced I needed an extra cover rather than a point. If you bowl a big half-volley you're going to get hit for four anyway. But if you have a point, leaving extra cover open might make him drive.

    When you're a spinner, you have three or four "catching" fielders, the others are bluff and subterfuge. I didn't have a mid-off because I expected the batsman to be caught at mid-off - I had one because I didn't want to leave it open to get hit over the top.

  19. Postpublished at 23:25 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    England spinner Jack Leach on TMS: "It's a shame Rooty declared on me yesterday, I was going for my first Test hundred!"

  20. Postpublished at 23:23 British Summer Time 2 April 2018

    Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    It's not a bunsen burner, he's not going to take seven wickets, but if he can contribute to a victory today and take three or four, Leach has the chance to play in the Test side this summer, let alone when they go to Sri Lanka and West Indies. There's scope for him to play in England as the frontline spinner.