Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

It's a good contest when Wagner is bowling - he's trying to make something happen all the time.

Shot!

You can't bowl there at Ben Stokes, Neil Wagner.

He goes to the short ball for the first time since tea, but it's only chest height and Stokes crunches a pull shot to the fence.

Meanwhile, Pakistan have lost two quick wickets against Australia over at the Gabba.

After a fine 75-run opening stand in Brisbane, openers Shan Masood and Azhar Ali have fallen to Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood respectively.

You know what the old cliche is - one brings two...

Follow that scorecard here.

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BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra will also have commentary from the final session once we're done in Tauranga.

Ben Stokes doubles his score with a quick single into the covers. Good positive running from England.

Tim Southee gets one to seam off the pitch and rap Joe Denly on the pads. Too high and probably going down leg though.

Another tight over with just a single coming off it.

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England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

I wonder how somebody like Ben Stokes manages the expectation - how do they manage the emotions when they're not feeling as good, and knowing they've produced special feats in the past.

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A full-blooded drive from Joe Denly is well stopped in the covers by Mitchell Santner before he sees out the final couple of deliveries.

England have added just two runs in three overs since tea. New Zealand are building pressure.

Ben Stokes gets off the mark from his 15th ball with a tap off his hip into the on side.

Bang on the money from Tim Southee as Joe Denly blocks out for a maiden.

The run-rate is down at 2.10.

Tim Southee will get us going from the other end and he gets one to seam past the outside edge of Joe Denly first up. A cracker.

Steven Finn
England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

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It's been a determined effort from England, but it's also been an excellent bowling display from New Zealand too. It's been pretty relentless. The scoreboard has not really gone anywhere.

Joe Denly gets England going after the interval with a trademark cover drive. He doesn't quite time it but it takes a smart sprawling dive from Kane Williamson to restrict him to one.

Ben Stokes lets one go through to BJ Watling before blocking solidly to end the over.

Tidy enough from Wagner after the break. No short ball tactics yet.

The hostile and increasingly angry Neil Wagner will get us going after the break.

Joe Denly is on strike. Will the Kent batsman take on the short ball again this session?

Kane Williamson has got his troops in a huddle on the boundary edge while Ben Stokes and Joe Denly collect their gloves from the edge of the outfield.

This mammoth evening session is about to get under way.

Will England be 250 for four/five down at close? Or will they collapse to 200 all out?

Hopefully the former with the new patient England that's been all the talk in the build-up.

Get the kettle on or reach for that energy drink, we're in for the long haul tonight.

Perhaps predictably - it always seems to the way in Test cricket these days - we're going to need the extra half an hour with 34 overs still to be bowled in the day.

Anyone got any words for that Joe Root shot?

Abysmal wasn't it?

He and the country have longed for him to come in with a foundation and for him to fall so tamely after coming in during the 46th over is disappointing.

Thanks Jack.

Honours even? For all of England's hard work in the first three hours of the day it was undone slightly in the last hour with the wickets of Rory Burns and Joe Root.

New Zealand will think a couple of quick wickets in the evening (or middle of the night to us) session will put them in control, which after losing the toss they'll be delighted with.

I have managed to not fall asleep at my desk. Success.

Here is Callum Matthews to guide you through to the close.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

I think New Zealand will be reasonably happy with what they have produced on a day when it's been a bit of a grind for the bowlers.

First session: Eng 61-1.

Second session: Eng 60-2.

Make that one session each so far today - which side will claim the final one?