Summary

  • Root reaches 50 off 107 balls

  • Stokes gloves short ball from Jamieson behind for 54

  • England chasing 277 for victory

  • NZ 285: Mitchell 108, Blundell 96; Potts 3-55, Broad 3-76

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  1. Postpublished at 15:00 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    Brilliant shots. They are slightly risky but that is Jonny Bairstow.

  2. Eng 63-3published at 19 overs

    Target 277

    And that's the best of the lot, Bairstow cutting it just behind square for the third four of the over.

  3. Eng 59-3published at 18.4 overs

    Target 277

    And another! This time he drives it more in front of the wicket to drill another boundary, following it with two to third off the next.

  4. Eng 53-3published at 18.1 0vers

    Target 277

    That's more like it, Jonny!

    Boult goes wide and Bairstow leans into it to guide the ball to the boundary past point.

  5. Eng 49-3published at 14:54 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Target 277

    Ouch! Jamieson gets one to climb back up the hill and into the under edge of Root's bat and into his inner thigh. That's got to sting.

  6. How's stat?!published at 14:51 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Andy Zaltzman
    BBC Test Match Special statistician

    Ollie Pope has faced 47 balls from left-arm pace bowlers round the wicket in Tests and has been out three times.

  7. Postpublished at 14:50 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Here's how New Zealand got stuck in after lunch.

  8. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

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    Jon: Since when has an innocuous ball outside off, become as vicious & dangerous as an in-swinging yorker? England's 90s batsmen, facing Younis, Akram, Donald & Ambrose must be wishing they could have a bat today.

    David Merson: Did England really think they just had to turn up to beat the current World Test Champions?

    Dan: Ah 46-3, hello my familiar friend.

  9. Postpublished at 14:49 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    If I had bowled a ball like that I'd have done a lap of Lord's.

  10. Eng 46-3published at 14:49 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Target 277

    Second ball in, and Bairstow wafts horribly at a wide one from Boult. It's not a good look at any point, especially after just deliveries.

  11. Eng 46-3published at 14:48 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Target 277

    Michael Vaughan's also just said that was alike a fast Derek Underwood, not many better tributes than that. Pope also may have just got touch to it.

    Here's Jonny Bairstow, but this all has a very familiar feeling to it.

  12. Postpublished at 14:45 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Michael Vaughan
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    That is a peach. Round the wicket and you are expecting it to come down the slope. It is a like a sharp leg-cutter from Boult.

    Pope was looking nice. If you get a ball like that there is not a lot you can do.

    Ollie Pope (right) is bowled by Trent Boult (left)Image source, Getty Images
  13. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 14:44 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Pope b Boult 10 (Eng 46-3)

    Demolished.

    Round the wicket and Boult moves one back up the slope to smash the off stump out of the ground. Magnificent delivery.

  14. Eng 46-2published at 16 overs

    Target 277

    This time it is Pope who repeats the shot Root essayed just earlier. It goes a bit closer to the boundary but yet again Kane Williamson drags it back.

  15. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

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    2 tickets for tomorrow free to a good home. Have a feeling won't be needing them!

    Tristan. Hook Norton

  16. Eng 43-2published at 15.3 overs

    Target 277

    Shot! Root cover drives Jamieson past mid off for three, it wasn't perfectly timed so did not quite have the legs.

  17. Postpublished at 14:39 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Phil Tufnell
    Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

    New Zealand are just relentless - experienced, different styles of bowlers.

    England have to take a leaf out of Mitchell's book. After 30 or 35 overs the ball did get a bit soft. If they could just not lose a wicket for 10 or 15 overs they could get their rewards.

  18. Eng 40-2published at 15 overs

    Target 277

    Boult is now coming round the wicket from the Pavilion End, given the slope and being a left-armer that must be a weird sensation.

    But it doesn't bother him as he zips the ball between Pope's bat and midriff and over the sumps.

  19. Eng 40-2published at 14:36 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Target 277

    Ollie Pope chops down on a wide Boult delivery, squirting the ball towards third to grab a scampered two runs.

  20. Postpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 4 June 2022

    Joe Root comes into this innings exactly 100 runs away from becoming the second Englishman, after Sir Alastair Cook, to score 10,000 Test runs.

    Here are some figures behind the Yorkshireman's career so far...

    Joe Root's Test career: Innings	217 Runs	9,900 Average	49.00 Strike-rate	54.66 Centuries	25 Half-centuries	50Image source, BBC Sport/Getty Images