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. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Runs aren't neccessarily cruical any more - New Zealand have got so many. Now, it's about keeping England out there a little longer.

  2. NZ 602-8

    Shot!

    Stand and deliver stuff from BJ Watling as he just lofts Jofra Archer over mid-on and it races away for four.

  3. Jofra Archer, who has already bowled 41 overs, is coming back on.

  4. Steven Finn
    England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    That was a bizarre ending. Southee has hit everything so aggressively and agriculturally but here he's stepped away and just played a straight drive back to the bowler. It was almost like catching practice.

  5. wicket

    WICKET

    Southee c & b Leach 9 (NZ 598-8)

    Soft, very soft.

    Tim Southee gives himself a little bit of room but literally just chips one straight back to Jack Leach who completes a simple catch.

    England have taken two wickets for 21 runs.

  6. 6 runs

    NZ 596-7

    Six, first ball after tea. Tim Southee just takes a step down the track and lofts Leach over mid-off.

    If you're an England fan you might want to the next passage of play from behind the sofa.

  7. Jack Leach is the unfortunate bowler who's been thrown the ball.

    How long will New Zealand bat for?

  8. There has no declaration at tea.

    England are trudging back onto the field again.

  9. There are still 33 overs left in the day too.

    This could get very, very messy for England.

  10. England have been OK for the majority of today but you feel like the wheels were starting to come off slightly with some of the bowling from Sam Curran and Joe Root late in that session.

    After 198 overs in the field, the fatigue is understandable.

  11. Thanks Jack.

    Remember when England were talking about getting a lead of 100-150? It's all gone wrong in the last five sessions.

  12. Callum Matthews is back to guide you to the close.

    What will England end on? Dare you stay awake to find out?

  13. How's stat?!

    Andrew Samson
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    BJ Watling's double century came up in 653 minutes and 460 balls with 23 fours and one six. It is the first double century by a NZ wicketkeeper and the 10th overall by a keeper.

    It's just the third double hundred for New Zealand against England after Martin Donnelly's 206 in 1949 and Nathan Astle's 222 in 2002.

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

    I think they'll come back after tea.

  15. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special

    BJ Watling, quite rightly, is leading the players off at tea.

    WatlingReuters

  16. Tea - NZ 590-7

    Lead by 237

    Another brutal session for England ends with a Sam Curran maiden. Little victories, eh?

    Another masterful session from New Zealand, in total control.

    When will the declaration come?

  17. Sam Curran to bowl what is likely to be the last over before tea.

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    David Wallace: Poor Dom Sibley - first Test match and he faces a nigh impossible task opening the second innings. I wonder what's going on in his head right now.

  19. Mark Ramprakash
    Ex-England batsman on BBC Test Match Special

    England will look to Rory Burns and Dom Sibley for them to play their natural game. They are used to batting time.

  20. NZ 590-7

    Nothing on hotspot or snicko that would've seen that decision overturned.