Summary

  • England end day four 207 runs behind NZ with just seven wickets in hand

  • Santner stars for NZ with maiden Test century and three late wickets

  • Watling hits 205; sharing in 261-run seventh-wicket stand with Santner

  • First Test in two-match series

Live Reporting

Callum Matthews

  1. Jofra Archer is sat down during the drinks break, with Saqib Mahmood giving him a shoulder massage.

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  2. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    This partnership has been an outstanding show of resolve. To be able to reign themselves in and to be able to understand, in the context of the game, that this partnership was so big when they came together.

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    Steve Johnson: This is the meekest England performance and the most boring Test match I’ve ever seen!

  4. NZ 515-6

    Mitchell Santner moves on to 91.

    Time for drinks.

    We often make the joke that England should get gin in a drinks break when things aren't going well. But they really should this time.

    Mix it with a sports drink.

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    Think I'll turn off the updates received when England get a wicket. Really not needed.

    Marv in Verwood

  6. NZ 512-6

    Ben Stokes owes Jos Buttler a drink.

    He bangs down one so short and wide that Buttler has no chance of stopping it running away for five wides.

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  8. NZ 507-6

    Mitchell Santner follows that six with an easy single to rotate the strike. Textbook.

    New Zealand playing immaculate Test cricket against a touring side here.

  9. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That is a big hit. He's got such a languid swing of the bat. We haven't seen it too often in this innings but he's starting to open up now.

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    NZ 505-6

    Mitchell Santner levers a booming drive back down the ground for six.

    A fine way for New Zealand to bring up the 500.

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    This is all too familiar, isn't it? While the bowling will be under scrutiny, our bowlers should rightly point out that we scored 353 on an absolute road, when we should have scored 553! How many times have we said, go abroad, score big and put pressure on? 353 is a great score in England but elsewhere is well below par. Had my rant, thanks.

    Adam in Norfolk

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  12. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    I do think the England bowlers have stuck at it well today. They've had a good basic plan, they've beaten the edge a couple of times, had a couple of shouts.

  13. NZ 499-6

    Lead by 146

    Ben Stokes sends down a leg-side wide and Jos Buttler has to leap to prevent it streaking to the boundary. Buttler has been given a tough workout by his bowlers in this Test.

    BJ Watling pushes through extra cover for a couple more.

  14. A colleague has 'kindly' just reminded me that as I got up to make a tea at the end of yesterday's tea break and missed Dom Sibley's stunning catch, I've not seen a live wicket in over 24 hours now.

    Cheers, mate.

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  15. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    He's been itching to come down the wicket and do that.

  16. Bryan Waddle
    BBC Test Match Special

    I think Mitchell Santner has been looking to do that for his whole innings.

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  17. 6 runs

    NZ 496-6

    Mitchell Santner skips down the pitch and launches Jack Leach over long-off for six.

    A man in a natty old-school New Zealand shirt juggles the ball but pouches the rebound safely.

  18. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    In reality, this wicket looks like an absolute feather bed. It's one of the flattest wickets I've ever seen.

  19. NZ 490-6

    Watling 164, Santner 77

    BJ Watling continues serenly on, playing late to punch through point for four. Immaculate timing.

  20. Is sticking to your guns a good thing if your guns are actually potato guns?