Summary

  • NZ close day three on 394-6, leading by 41 runs

  • Watling hits superb unbeaten 119, Santner 31 not out

  • England only take two wickets all day

  • Nicholls falls lbw to Root for 41 and Sibley takes stunning catch to remove De Grandhomme for 65

  • Watling & De Grandhomme put on 119 for sixth wicket

  • Watling dropped on 31 by Stokes

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews and Matthew Henry

  1. NZ 224-5

    BJ Watling picks up a couple with a sweep down to fine leg. He's on 45 and edging towards an 18th Test half-century.

    He blocks out the final two deliveries and that's lunch.

    BJ Watling and Jos ButtlerGetty Images

  2. NZ 222-5

    BJ Watling uses his feet to negate the rough initially before turning one into the on side to get off strike.

    England will sneak another over in before lunch.

  3. He's going to carry on with the old ball for now.

    He's going to go around the wicket to BJ Watling though and bowl into the rough.

  4. Joe Root, Jack Leach and Ben Stokes are having a conflab.

    They're debating whether to let Leach have a go with the new ball I think. Stokes was saying "you might get one to spit".

  5. NZ 221-5

    Just a couple of singles come from Joe Root's latest over.

  6. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    England have bowled 11 overs in 31 minutes since the spinners came on.

  7. Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    I would leave the new ball until after lunch.

  8. NZ 220-5

    Joe Root has just fizzed one through at 71mph and it took off and hit Colin de Grandhomme on the glove. This pitch is starting to misbehave occasionally.

  9. Hmmm Joe Root has decided he's going to continue with the old ball for now.

    Stuart Broad looked interested there.

  10. NZ 219-5

    A maiden from Jack Leach.

    The new ball is now available, will England take it?

  11. NZ 219-5

    Lovely again from Colin de Grandhomme.

    He's known for his power and brute strength but this is all grace as he rocks back and carves Joe Root to the third man fence. Beautiful stroke.

  12. Joe Root will continue.

    The TV coverage just said he got through his last over in one minute 30 seconds. Rapid.

  13. NZ 213-5

    Watling 40, De Grandhomme 8

    Too short again from Jack Leach and Colin de Grandhomme drops onto the back foot and steers through the third man region for his first boundary.

    Two overs until the new ball.

  14. Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It has been an absorbing session. We are getting to the new ball quicker with the two spinners bowling.

  15. NZ 208-5

    BJ Watling gets well forward to smother a delivery that spins a little bit from Joe Root. A maiden as Watling blocks and blocks again.

    The England captain is rattling through these overs. We should definitely see the new ball, if taken, before the lunch break now.

  16. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Watling is an annoying batsman from an opposition perspective. He is stubborn.

  17. NZ 208-5

    Better from Jack Leach as he lands six deliveries on the money. Colin de Grandhomme and BJ Watling - who looks unflustered after being dropped - milk him for four singles.

  18. Jeremy Coney
    Ex-New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    The ball is swinging just a little bit for Root.

  19. NZ 204-5

    Joe Root gets another one to scuttle through but Colin de Grandhomme does well to jab his bat down and keep it out.

    De Grandhomme finally gets off the mark, off his 14th ball, with a tap into square leg.

    Five overs until the new ball now. Things are starting to happen for the spinners though so maybe England won't take it immediately.

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