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.
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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Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special
Brilliant shots. They are slightly risky but that is Jonny Bairstow.
Target 277
And that's the best of the lot, Bairstow cutting it just behind square for the third four of the over.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here's how New Zealand got stuck in after lunch.
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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.
Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special commentator
If I had bowled a ball like that I'd have done a lap of Lord's.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Target 277
Shot! Root cover drives Jamieson past mid off for three, it wasn't perfectly timed so did not quite have the legs.
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.
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.
Target 277
Ollie Pope chops down on a wide Boult delivery, squirting the ball towards third to grab a scampered two runs.
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