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. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    That looked catchable to me.

  2. dropped catch

    Burns dropped on 31

    What has happened there?

    Mitchell Santner completes deceives Rory Burns and the left-hander chips one towards Tim Southee at mid-wicket.

    Southee just about gets two hands under the ball but it pops out.

    Big let off for England.

  3. There are five overs left in the day.

    England really don't want to lose another wicket now.

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

    At this stage, I'd be thinking of throwing in a rogue bowler - somebody like Williamson, who is a reluctant bowler. Or Jeet Raval even.

  5. Eng 53-1

    Shot!

    Neil Wagner is still banging them in short and Joe Denly crunches a swivel pull to the square leg boundary despite the best attempts of a sprawling Mitchell Santner.

    Another six short balls. Wagner is becoming too predictable.

    WagnerGetty Images

  6. That's the first wicket a spinner has taken for New Zealand on home soil from a long time.

    The previous 101 Test wickets were all taken by seam bowling.

  7. Eng 49-1

    Joe Denly has come in rather than asking a nightwatchman to see out the final six overs of the day.

    The 33-year-old gets off the mark first ball as he pushes through point for a single.

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

    That's a loose and disappointing stroke from Dom Sibley.

  9. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    It turned, but it was very wide. He was pushing a long way from his pad.

  10. wicket

    WICKET

    Sibley c Watling b Santner 12 (Eng 48-1)

    Ah, Dom Sibley. You didn't need to play at that.

    Mitchell Santner gets one to spin out of the rough but Sibley is groping forward - well in front of his pad - and gets an edge through to BJ Watling, who takes a good catch behind the stumps.

    The Warwickshire opener slashes his bat through the air in disappointment. It really wasn't a wise shot selection.

    SantnerReuters

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

    I can never understand the idea of a nightwatchman. It's not good from a social point of view - what makes you more important than me? It's not very equal. If you're a number three, it's your job.

  12. The TV cameras have just cut to the England changing room where Joe Denly is padded up with his gloves on ready to come in.

    We're getting into the stage where we're likely to see Jack Leach instead of Denly though, I reckon.

  13. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    England are not going to be safe in this match until the stumps are pulled out of the ground at the end of the day.

  14. Eng 48-0

    Neil Wagner tries round and over the wicket but isn't having any luck.

    Rory Burns tries to hook again at the end of the over but gets a bottom edge on it and it bobbles into the hands of short leg.

    Seven overs left in the day.

  15. Eng 48-0

    I don't think Neil Wagner has landed one in Rory Burns' half so far.

    He bangs another one in half way down the track and Burns just flicks it to the square leg fence. That flew to the boundary.

    BurnsAFP

  16. Eng 44-0

    New Zealand have got a slip, short leg and silly point in for Mitchell Santner but Dom Sibley sees out a maiden.

  17. Eng 44-0

    Down the leg side twice to end the over. If I was Kane Williamson, I would be absolutely furious with this bowling. It's dross.

    There are nine overs left in the day and a maximum of 99 left in the Test. England are slowly ticking them off.

  18. Eng 44-0

    Rory Burns does like to take on the short ball. He got out playing it a couple of times during the Ashes but he looks pretty comfortable so far as he pulls through mid-wicket for a couple before sending one to the fine-leg fence.

    This is poor from Neil Wagner at the moment. Predictable.

    BurnsReuters

  19. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    You've got to be daft to get out to this bowling from Wagner.

  20. Eng 38-0

    Neil Wagner goes round the wicket to Rory Burns but again sends a bouncer harmlessly down the leg side.

    Sigh.