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. Stick with us and we'll bring up all the reaction to that difficult day for England.

    New Zealand's Henry Nicholls is being interviewed by Bryan Waddle as I type.

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

    I've got nothing but admiration for BJ Watling because he works so hard. He deserves everything he gets.

  3. Well, that didn't go to plan did it?

    England's bowling and fielding was ropey at best and they've squandered a very good position and now have their backs against the wall.

  4. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    That is the end of a day that England will not look back on with any affection at all.

  5. BJ Watling finishes the day on 119 not out with Mitchell Santner on 31 at the other end.

    New Zealand have opened up a 41-run lead.

  6. NZ 394-6

    Ben Stokes send the final ball of the day down the leg side. Fitting really, sums up a lot of England's bowling today.

  7. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    That was sheer fortune that didn't go to hand. Santner had no control over that.

  8. NZ 394-6

    England are continuing to bombard Mitchell Santner with the short ball.

    He fends one into the off side first off - that would have gone straight to silly point.

    The next ball comes off the bat handle and then the helmet.

  9. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    How Joe Denly misfielded that I have no idea. For godness' sake.

  10. NZ 393-6

    Lead by 40

    Sigh, this is pathetic from Joe Denly.

    A cover drive from BJ Watling literally trickles to Denly but he spills it, allowing New Zealand to steal a single.

    That was rubbish.

  11. NZ 391-6

    Stuart Broad - from round the wicket - gets one to straighten and beat the outside edge of Mitchell Santner.

    He's bowled well in this two-over spell at the end of the day.

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    Savage Cabbage: Root is no captain. The pattern was set this morning when he began with the medium pace of Curran and Broad instead of letting Archer have a blast. He seems to lack something as a leader.

  13. NZ 391-6

    BJ Watling moves to 117 with a nudge into the on side. He's rotated the strike brilliantly too.

    Something for England to aspire too when they bat again.

  14. Two overs left...

  15. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    That is the closest Santner has actually come to giving a catch to that trap.

  16. NZ 390-6

    Almost!

    Mitchell Santner fends one just wide of Ollie Pope at short leg. It would have been a brilliant catch.

  17. NZ 390-6

    England are getting funky again.

    They've got no slip but they've got a leg slip, silly leg and a silly mid-on.

    They are trying anything.

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

    Have we seen a single wicket fall from a proper short ball yet in the match?

  19. Joe Root has turned to Ben Stokes now.

    He's got figures of 2-36 from 14 overs so far.

  20. NZ 390-6

    Five dot balls follow the Denly misfield.

    Decent over from Stuart Broad. Three to go.