Summary

  • Conway 136* on debut, Nicholls 46*

  • Conway & Nicholls rally from 114-3

  • Two wickets for Robinson on debut

  • Latham 23, Taylor 14, Williamson 13

  • Keeper Bracey makes England debut

  • England pick four seamers; no spinner

  • First Test, Lord's, day one; NZ won toss

Live Reporting

Amy Lofthouse and Matthew Henry

  1. NZ 87-2

    Conway 44, Taylor 2

    Williamson almost middled the ball down into the ground before it bounced onto off stump. Really odd.

    Ross Taylor is the new batsman. He's good.

  2. Vic Marks
    Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    He was playing very late and trying to run it down on the off side, but he played a bit too late... England have got a big wicket.

  3. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    That is a breakthrough that England desperately wanted after lunch. It was a rather innocuous ball. It went into the ground flicked the off bail.

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    WICKET

    Williamson b Anderson 13 (NZ 86-2)

    Anderson gets Williamson! A big, big moment as New Zealand's skipper is out to his first ball after lunch.

    It's an odd dismissal - Williamson playing a straightforward ball late but deflecting it down onto his stumps.

    England don't care. Jimmy is delighted.

  5. NZ 86-1

    Conway nabs a single to get the scoreboard ticking over.

  6. NZ 85-1

    I see players wandering back out to the middle.

    Will England miss a spinner in this afternoon session? They'll want wickets to halt New Zealand's progress.

    It looks like it'll be James Anderson to bowl.

  7. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    I'll try to put some meat on the bones of England's selection.

    Without Ben Stokes (and Chris Woakes and Sam Curran) there was no option to have a bowler in the top seven of the batting line-up.

    Once Stuart Broad was named vice-captain, that was one of the four bowling spots taken. One of Ollie Robinson or Craig Overton was always likely to bat at eight, so we're down to two.

    It would have been a very big call to omit James Anderson, leaving one spot for either extra pace or spin. England have gone for the former.

  8. I'm not sure I believe that one.

  9. I dismissed an England cricketer

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    I tucked up Joe Root (aged 17) third ball of the innings, caught short leg. He left the field, threw off his pads and cried in the centre circle of the adjacent football field for 30 minutes.

    Big Jonno

  10. Quite right too, Josh.

  11. I dismissed an England cricketer

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    I dismissed Ben Duckett when he was at school. I was hungover and had thrown up on the way to the ground. He had scored a double hundred the day before. I got him to a peach that moved across him and was caught at first slip. Haven't stopped going on about it since

    Josh from Oxford

  12. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport at Lord's

    The last time England went into a home Test without a specialist spinner was the 2012 Headingley match against South Africa, when Graeme Swann was left out. That match is famous for Kevin Pietersen's incredible century and his post-match comments of "it's tough being me" in the England dressing room.

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  13. I'm not sure you've got the hang of this 'I dismissed an England cricketer' theme, Joe. You didn't dismiss Rhodes, and he's not an England player.

  14. I dismissed an England cricketer

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    I caught Will Rhodes at extra cover some 10 years ago when playing a school cricket match in Yorkshire. He opened and scored a century off seven overs.

    Joe in Yorkshire

  15. New Zealand's debutant Devon Conway was in an entertaining battle with Mark Wood before the lunch break.

    Wood, bowling rapid, hit the opener with a couple of nasty bouncers but Conway got a few blows of his own in.

  16. Meet Ollie Robinson

    Ever wondered who Ollie Robinson is and what he's like? Our own Stephan Shemilt got a sneak peak inside his home...

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  17. Watch: Robinson takes first Test wicket

    New Zealand had the better of an entertaining morning session but there was a landmark moment for Ollie Robinson.

    Four overs into his Test debut he claimed his first wicket...

  18. I have been enjoying these stories. Keep them coming. I think I'd dine out on dismissing Ramps forever.

  19. I dismissed an England cricketer

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    Rob VDS: I dismissed Mark Ramprakash while I was playing for Hampshire schools, him for Middlesex. Felt very happy with myself as even at that age he had quite a reputation. The fact he'd got a big hundred by the time I had him caught on the boundary is not important!

  20. Spiders in Zimbabwe, champagne in Southend

    During the lunch break on TMS you can listen to a Chris Silverwood special as Stephan Shemilt charts his rise to the top of English men's cricket.

    You can read more here too.

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