Summary

  • England slip to 76-7 & 121-9

  • Wood & Stone avoid innings defeat

  • Henry & Wagner three wickets each

  • NZ 388 - first-innings lead by 85

  • Taylor 80, Broad 4-48

  • 16 wickets fall in day

  • Second Test, Edgbaston, day three

  • Two-Test series level at 0-0

  1. Postpublished at 15:59 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Here is how Dom Sibley got out.

  2. Postpublished at 15:57 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    This beach ball has genuinely been one of the most entertaining things today.

    I started the day by saying day three is often a moving day. This game could move on so much that Monday won't be needed.

    Beach ballImage source, Getty Images
  3. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 15:55 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    #bbccricket or text 81111 (standard message rates apply)

    SafcPete: Surely we have seen enough of Sibley and his dodgy technique.

    Arjun: Thankfully there is no meaning to this series. It’s silly having to “learn” from the opposition how to play in our own conditions. Poor from England.

  4. Postpublished at 15:52 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Here's how Rory Burns was dismissed.

    He has been in form this summer. But is this a wise shot to the second ball of an innings when you're starting with an 85-run deficit? Is it heck.

  5. Postpublished at 15:50 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Thanks Jack.

    It felt like the inevitability of England doing this was slowly eeking away. They had made progress during 2020, in South Africa and against West Indies and Pakistan at home. They were starting to mould themselves into the team that Chris Silverwood and Joe Root wanted - a consistent platform of 400-plus in the first innings and then create pressure with the ball.

    The tours of Sri Lanka and India this winter have left scars. Scars that are deep. Scars that are still haunting England.

  6. Postpublished at 15:49 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Callum Matthews will take you through to the close.

    Joe Root century in a session, yeah?

    Thanks for reading all, catch you later.

  7. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 15:47 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    #bbccricket or text 81111 (standard message rates apply)

    Russell: The bonus of this position is that we either see the Zak Crawley innings that rescues his Test career ahead of the Ashes, or the one that consigns him back to county cricket for a while.

    John: Huge innings for Crawley. Class batsmen that we need to cement his place at number 3.

    Jay: Fingers crossed that Crawley remembers that he scored 267 against the best bowlers in the world.

  8. Postpublished at 15:46 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    If instructed to set up a new England fan group, I'd call it '50-3'.

    I may revise that first number down.

  9. Postpublished at 15:44 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Alison Mitchell
    BBC Test Match Special

    England have it all to do.

  10. Tea - Eng 18-2published at 6 overs

    Trail by 67

    Zak Crawley picks up a single and Joe Root sees off Trent Boult to survive until the tea break.

    England trail by 67, with two wickets down.

    New Zealand might think they left some runs out there, but those two wickets should assuage most worries about that for now.

  11. Postpublished at 15:42 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    I love Jeremy Coney. As well as being a fine broadcaster, I admire his total refusal to get too confident in New Zealand's position in the game.

    They are battering England here.

  12. Postpublished at 15:41 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Jeremy Coney
    Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    This is a good mini session for New Zealand.

  13. Postpublished at 15:41 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    England captain Joe Root arrives, yet another rescue job on his hands.

    He's such a nice guy but he must really hate this by now.

  14. Postpublished at 15:40 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Jeremy Coney
    Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Could he have left it? He fenced at it a little bit, and he was squared right around. A little bit more bounce from Henry - and well taken by Mitchell.

  15. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 4.5 overs

    Sibley c Mitchell b Henry 8 (Eng 17-2)

    If you edge it, New Zealand will catch it.

    Matt Henry is a very fine bowler - a bit of movement and bounce has Dom Sibley playing down the wrong line, the ball takes a healthy edge and Daryl Mitchell snaffles it at third slip.

    The Kiwi slip cordon is better at sweeping up anything loose than the vacuum cleaner you own.

    Both England openers back in the hutch.

  16. Postpublished at 15:36 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Century at Lord's. A composed 81 in the first innings here.

    Then a duck.

    Cricket the great leveller.

  17. Eng 17-1published at 3.4 overs

    Shot! Zak Crawley mashes a beautiful straight drive down the ground for four.

    You watch that and you know why England are picking him.

    You watch his first-innings dismissal and think the opposite.

    Is every young England batter just like this by law now?

  18. Postpublished at 15:33 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Think Rohit Sharma would fare alright against any spinner. And Dean Elgar's record is really good against spin if I recall correctly.

    But yep, tempting Zak Crawley and testing Dom Sibley's technique with Ajaz Patel could be a good shout here.

    Trent Boult continues for now...

  19. Postpublished at 15:32 British Summer Time 12 June 2021

    Jeremy Coney
    Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Openers don't like facing spin early in their innings. There's nothing to be lost by giving Patel a couple of overs.

  20. Eng 13-1published at 3 overs

    Dom Sibley deftly glances it through vacant third man for four, the first boundary of the innings. Nice touch.