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 170-4

    Just a single comes off Ben Stokes second over. This is all very subdued at the moment.

  2. Mark Ramprakash
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    It was a tough one for Buttler. He is a very good athlete but even he wasn't able to get down.

  3. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    That is 13 byes for New Zealand now.

  4. Bryan Waddle
    BBC Test Match Special

    The byes are starting to look lucrative for New Zealand now.

  5. NZ 169-4

    Archer attempts a slower ball but gets it all wrong and it slides down leg and past a scrambling Jos Buttler, who had no chance in fairness, and away for four byes.

    BJ Watling squeezes away through point for a couple to end the over.

    Archer is up around 85 mph so far. You feel like he needs to crank it up a bit.

  6. NZ 163-4

    Jofra Archer has decided to go around the wicket to Henry Nicholls but he strays down leg allowing the left-hander to clip into mid-wicket for a single.

    This partnership is up to 36 off 142 balls now. It has been very frustrating for England.

  7. Mark Ramprakash
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand have to almost forget the scoreboard and play what is in front of them. So far it has been good. Their defence has been tight.

  8. NZ 162-4

    A maiden first up for Ben Stokes.

    He got a little bit of movement both in and out during that over but BJ Watling was aware and defended stoutly.

  9. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Stuart Broad's first spell this morning was five overs, four maidens, no wickets for one run.

  10. NZ 162-4

    Stokes gets one to take off first ball but it's too wide allowing BJ Watling to just shoulder his arms.

  11. New Zealand are starting to frustrate England so Joe Root calls for Ben Stokes.

  12. Mark Ramprakash
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    That was almost like VAR in Premier League football.

  13. Not out

    Finally Paul Wilson has decided that's not out.

    A waste of a review from England. That looked pretty clear at full speed.

  14. He's asking for front on angles so the TV producer zooms in and it's a clear inside edge.

  15. There's a clear inside edge on Hotspot but the third umpire is carrying on checking this...

  16. Mark Ramprakash
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    I am not sure this has got a lot going for it. I thought it pitched outside leg stump.

  17. England review

    England and Jofra Archer think they may have Henry Nicholls trapped infront.

    I am not at all convinced. I think he's hit it and it's pitched outside leg.

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  19. NZ 161-4

    BJ Watling looks a very accomplished batsman. He weaves a well-directed bouncer from Jofra Archer really well before steering to the boundary through gully.

    That's angered Archer who follows up with another straight bouncer but again it's played superbly by Watling.

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