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 325-6

    Mitchell Santner doesn't look at all comfortable. He's struggling against the short ball and the spinner.

    A chest-high bouncer is patted just short of Ollie Pope at short leg to start the over. Could Pope move slightly closer in? Maybe.

    Ben Stokes decides to go around the wicket and Santner takes his eye off another bouncer and it cannons into the Kiwi's chest. That's got to hurt.

    Santner picks up a single off the final ball of the over. England will be delighted with that. They are keeping BJ Watling away from the strike and getting plenty of balls at Santner.

  2. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Apparently the Barmy Army played the Mount Maunganui Old Boys last night and conceded 250 in a 20-over game.

  3. NZ 323-6

    Just a single from Leach's 28th over. England are starting to build pressure.

  4. NZ 322-6

    Jack Leach and England have a slip and short leg in for Mitchell Santner, but could they have more in? He doesn't look at all comfortable as he plays and misses at one outside the off-stump.

  5. NZ 321-6

    Ooh a snorter to finish from Ben Stokes. He bangs one in short and it's well-directed towards Mitchell Santner's throat and the Kiwi gets in a bit of tangle and it ends up hitting him in his left armpit.

    Jeremy Coney did say earlier he doesn't always look comfortable against the short ball.

  6. NZ 320-6

    It's amazing what one ball spinning can do to a batsman's mindset.

    Mitchell Santner comes down the track and has an almighty hoick at one and fortunately for him it dribbles along the floor to mid-wicket.

    Promising signs from Jack Leach.

  7. NZ 320-6

    A beauty first up from Jack Leach.

    He gets one to spin out the rough and it beats Mitchell Santner on the inside edge and also beats Jos Buttler and it runs away for a couple of byes.

  8. Jack Leach is going to bowl from the other end post-tea.

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

    New Zealand's batsmen are vulnerable to the short ball when you get down to Santner.

  10. NZ 318-6

    Mitchell Santner gets off the mark with a drive to mid-off for a single.

    That's just the start that England needed to this session. They need to push on now.

  11. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    It is rare to see a number eight coming out to a field like this.

    It's extraordinary.

  12. England have no slips to Mitchell Santner...

    What is going on?

  13. What a way to take your first catch in international cricket by the way. That was ridiculous from Dom Sibley.

    Think Rory Burns to dismiss Peter Siddle at The Oval in the Ashes - it was very, very similar.

  14. That's brought an end to a 119-run partnership and brings Mitchell Santner to the crease.

  15. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    Phenomenal catch from Dom Sibley. It was behind him almost. A flying catch, low down to his right-hand side.

    That sort of thing can kick start a bit of life into the fielding team.

  16. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Brilliant catch!

    That was a totally innocuous loose ball from Stokes. A long-hop.

  17. wicket

    WICKET

    De Grandhomme c Sibley b Stokes 65 (NZ 316-6)

    FIRST BALL AFTER TEA! AND WHAT A CATCH!

    It's a wide floaty loosener outside off stump from Ben Stokes but Colin de Grandhomme tries to guide it through backward point rather than whacking it and Dom Sibley takes an absolutely spectacular one-handed catch down to his right-hand side at gully. The ball was almost past him as he took it.

    England needed that!

  18. England are going for the short-pitched plan with three men out on the hook.

  19. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    There is an awful lot of work for England to do.

  20. Ben Stokes, who didn't bowl at all in the afternoon session, is going to get us going after tea.