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 235-7published at 103 overs

    18 overs left

    Six decent balls but six decent blocks. A maiden for Leach but not much menace there.

    No Stokes yet - Root is bringing himself back on.

    He'll need to bowl much better than that rank over he sent down 10 minutes ago.

  2. Postpublished at 05:47 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Stokes is getting loose at slip, Marcus.

    Leach will continue for now...

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    Get Involvedpublished at 05:46 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

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    Marcus Whitaker: Get Stokes on.

  4. Postpublished at 05:46 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    England have only taken three wickets since 11.30am (00:30 BST), which shows the level of New Zealand's resistance.

  5. NZ 235-7published at 102 overs

    19 overs left

    Wood mixes it up and goes full, Wagner pushes it into the covers but turns down the single on offer. He's happy to take the quick stuff.

    Broad comes up to add another close fielder to the mix. Wagner now has four men in his eyeline either side of the wicket.

    He slashes out to deep point but again the Kiwis don't run and Stokes has to jog out to fetch it.

    A bouncer to finish and Wagner ducks under it. Another maiden.

  6. How's stat?!published at 05:43 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    This is now Sodhi's longest Test innings - he'd never batted longer than 102 balls before.

  7. Postpublished at 05:43 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    Sodhi is handling Leach OK, but slog-sweep at this stage? No.

    Wagner handles the quicker bowling quite well, I think. But New Zealand can't afford to bat loosely - you can't save games that way. Too many mistakes throughout the day.

  8. Postpublished at 05:43 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It looks as though England have about an hour to win the game.

  9. NZ 235-7published at 101 overs

    20 overs left

    Leach goes over the wicket to the right-handed Sodhi, who can just pad away anything pitching outside leg.

    What on earth? Sodhi unfurls a slog sweep and the ball just misses the top edge. Not a time for that, Ish.

    Another maiden for Leach, who might well want to be bowling into the footholes at the left-handed Wagner instead.

  10. Postpublished at 05:39 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Cook looks OK after that glancing blow, but it was a horrible over of long-hops from Root and if you're fielding at short leg, you really don't want that.

    And you don't normally see a silly point that close for a fast bowler.

  11. Postpublished at 05:39 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    There's been some loose cricket from an England side who are probably pretty desperate to get rid of this poor overseas record they keep hearing about.

  12. NZ 235-7published at 100 overs

    21 overs

    Eek. Wagner tries to get on top of a short one and almost plays it straight off the face of the bat to silly point. It drops short though.

    Another short ball to finish and Wagner ducks under it. Any danger of a yorker?

  13. Close!published at 99.3 overs

    Sodhi works a short ball from Wood away high on the bat and it just evades Vince's dive at square leg.

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  15. Postpublished at 05:36 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    You'd hate to be fielding at short leg. That must have hurt Cook - he's turned his back and it hit him on the neck.

  16. ouch!

    NZ 234-7published at 99 overs

    22 overs left

    Root is bringing himself on to rifle through an over.

    Ah. The England skipper drags down a couple and Sodhi whacks both to the fence on the leg side.

    Eek. More awful stuff from Root as he sends down another short one and Sodhi wallops it into Alastair Cook's neck at short leg.

    The former skipper is down but up again soon thankfully.

    A terrible over from Root - Sodhi picks up one more to keep the strike.

  17. Postpublished at 05:34 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on Test Match Special

    The last I heard of Tim Southee was that he was going to bat if required. There's been some lower-order resistance from New Zealand, but if they're honest they'd say they've been clinging to the coat-tails of England throughout this match.

  18. The big manpublished at 05:34 British Summer Time 3 April 2018

    Colin de Grandhomme may have just departed at a terrible time for his side but ends up New Zealand's leading run scorer in Tests this season. He's hit 331 runs - 80 more than any of the top five specialist batsmen - at an average of 55.

    His dismissal might be more memorable if the Kiwis lose this one, though.

  19. NZ 225-7published at 98 overs

    23 overs left

    Wood fizzes in a couple of well-directed short balls at Wagner's arm pits and he just about fends both down off his gloves.

    The physio will come out now to check Wagner's hand.

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