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 replaces Ben Stokes.

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    Stephen Cunningham: I may have watched worse Test matches than this but I can’t recall them at the moment.

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  3. NZ 445-6

    Hmmm what has that come off? The ball flies between Jos Buttler and Joe Root at first slip. Thankfully for England it's come off Mitchell Santner's back thigh pad rather than an outside edge.

    Sam Curran throws down a bouncer, that BJ Watling ducks, to end the over.

    Time for a change from this end, I imagine. The movement that Chris Silverwood hoped Curran would get is pretty non-existent.

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    BBC cricket correspondent

    New Zealand are just batting England out of this while the cracks continue to open up.

  5. NZ 440-6

    Watling 141, Santner 54

    BJ Watling has gone full Jonathan Trott.

    Immense occupation of the crease.

    He sees off five dot balls from Ben Stokes before getting a fraction of width off the last and punching it sumptuously through the covers for four.

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

    Santner was uncomfortable yesterday and got away with it but today I think he's handled things, like the short ball, much better.

  7. NZ 436-6

    Lead by 83

    Sam Curran continues and BJ Watling clips nicely off his pads through mid-wicket for three.

    Mitchell Santner sees off the final three balls, driving the last off the toe end into the ground as Joe Root leaps to take the rebound above his head at first slip, saving a bizarre four.

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    Ben: Sadly, once again, we have been shown by another Test nation how to play Test cricket. It’s like we got bored of it after day one and thought after 90 overs we’d earned the right to ‘have a pop’. Well actually... look at the benefits of batting 164 overs.

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  9. NZ 433-6

    Excellent running again from New Zealand and BJ Watling moves to 134. Their running has been much more positive than England's.

    That's a beauty from Ben Stokes. He gets one to swing into Mitchell Santner but nip away off the seam and it beats Santner's defensive prod and goes through to Jos Buttler. England have beaten the bat on a few occasions today.

  10. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    It's not quite the last throw of the dice but England going to Ben Stokes with the new ball is them hoping he can make things happen yet again.

  11. Ben Stokes is going to share the new ball.

    Erm. This can't have happened many times before.

  12. NZ 430-6

    There wasn't much movement in that first over.

    Curran does get a leading edge but it falls just short of the man at short mid-wicket.

    It's not just happening for England.

  13. Last night, England head coach Chris Silverwood said "we wanted to give Sam the best chance swinging it. This morning we felt he was the right way to go."

    They obviously still think that's the right way.

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    New ball taken

    England have taken the third new ball.

    Once again, Sam Curran is going to bowl with it.

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    Francis Edwards: Day four pitch with cracks and some foot holes and a 115kph bowler in Curran and an exhausted Broad bowling before Leach. As fun as he was in the Ashes as a wall - I can’t name a worse spinner for England in 20 years.

  16. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    I would not have believed you if you'd said Mitchell Santner would get a 50 when he first came in. He looked in so much trouble to the short ball and the spinner. But he's dug in so well.

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    50 for Mitchell Santner

    Well batted, Mitchell Santner.

    He reaches his third Test half-century with a push into the covers for a single.

    When he first came to the crease he looked completely at sea but he's looking more and more assured.

  18. Sam Curran is loosening up so England look like they're going to take the new ball.

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    Marc Sepetowski: I'm not sure where New Zealand are going with these tactics? Are they looking to bat all day and try and skittle England on a pitch that is dead? Or is it, because the pitch is dead, they aren't backing themselves to bowl England out? The game needs to move forward.

  20. NZ 425-6

    A maiden from Jack Leach.

    Going to be honest, I didn't see a single ball in that over because I was writing about the last over still. Leach and Joe Root are rattling through the overs at the moment.

    The new ball is available after this over.