Summary

  • NZ win with five sessions to spare

  • Tourists win two-Test series 1-0

  • NZ chase 38 in 11 overs

  • England bowled out for 122

  • First home Test series defeat since 2014

  • Second Test, Edgbaston, day four

Live Reporting

Jack Skelton

  1. I don't think a change of head coach is going to make England batters suddenly stop nicking off and collapsing in a heap.

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    Should Chris Silverwood continue as the England Manager? This is probably the poorest team for decades. A very poor Winter followed by two inept performances against New Zealand. I would like England to be able to compete in Australia, at the moment we are miles away.

    Ian in Plymouth

  3. Jonathan Agnew
    BBC cricket correspondent

    Olly Stone deserves that wicket. He had a couple of missed chances in the first innings.

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    WICKET

    Young b Stone 8 (NZ 33-2)

    Well that should give Olly Stone a bit of a lift.

    Two balls after a loose delivery he sends it down a little closer to Will Young, who attempts a similiar shot but is cramped for room.

    As a result he mashes it off his inside edge into the stumps.

  5. NZ 33-1

    Need 5 runs to win

    Sigh. Short, wide from Stone and Young smacks it through point for four.

  6. Change of bowling for England.

    Olly Stone into the attack.

    Can he pick up a confidence-boosting wicket?

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Joe Root has gone five Tests without a half-century. It is the first time in his entire Test career that he has had a five-Test sequence without a fifty.

    Prior to that he'd made those three huge centuries, including two double centuries.

    Looking at his home form, since the Headingley Test of 2017, when he declared against West Indies and England lost, he is averaging 31 with just one hundred in 37 innings.

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    I have to admit, Broad and Anderson are absolutely admirable. Still charging in. Still looking threatening. Still a class apart. I feel sorry for them that the rest of this team are incapable of backing up their good work. How they must miss Strauss, Cook, Trott, KP, Bell.

    Sam, London

  9. NZ 28-1

    James Anderson bowls an excellent, testing over. Professional to the end.

  10. Jeremy Coney
    Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Everybody is actually pushing for a place in this New Zealand squad.

    You don't get many chances to play in England. We only ever play two Tests, we don't get the three or four Test series. It is always two. I don't know why.

  11. NZ 27-1

    Target 38

    The Kiwis pick up six runs from the over and everyone at Edgbaston today looks certain to get their money back.

  12. NZ 27-1

    Stuart Broad bowls a tidy over until he strays too short and it's called wide on height. He's not happy with that.

    Tom Latham then scurries a risky single to Mark Wood at mid-on.

    Wood picks it up cleanly and underarms it at one stump...yeesh. So close. Brilliant fielding.

    Latham would've been gone. Oh and that was a no-ball by Broad, because of course.

  13. I think England's elephant was a lot larger.

    New Zealand's elephant may have just been Jimmy Neesham wearing an elephant costume for a laugh.

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

    Both sides came into this series with large elephants in the room. New Zealand were a little bit lucky and fortunate that England are thinking about India and Australia.

    Then the venue for a start, playing at Lord's for a New Zealander is a very important event because you don't get there very often. It is six years since this group came over. That gets rid of any elephants and focuses the mind, and they probably weren't thinking about the World Test Championship.

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    Captaincy is about getting the best out of your team. Root has not consistently done that, plus his batting form has dipped since taking over. It's time for a change, get Buttler in in time for the Ashes.

    Joe M, Esher

  16. NZ 21-1

    Target 38

    Tom Latham pours the salt into England's wound by sweetly driving James Anderson down the ground for four.

  17. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special

    It must be difficult for Joe Root, because after three Tests away from home this winter they'd won all three. Since then it has all gone vertically downwards.

    It is a very young England team against a very experienced New Zealand team. Everything feels strange. England play more Tests than anyone else, but New Zealand look like everyone has been playing for more than 10 years.

  18. Test wicket number 523 for Stuart Broad.

  19. NZ 17-1

    Target 38

    Daniel Vettori scoring over 4,000 Test runs makes me very happy.

    Will Young unleashes a loose drive at Stuart Broad that beats the outside edge.

    Anderson and Broad have bowled really, really well this morning. And yet again it doesn't really matter.

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    Andy Zaltzman
    Test Match Special statistician

    Tom Latham has now scored 4,000 Test runs. He has reached it in his 58th Test match and is the ninth New Zealander to reach the landmark.

    Kane Williamson, Martin Crowe, Ross Taylor, Nathan Astle, John Wright, Stephen Fleming, Brendon McCullum and Daniel Vettori are the others.