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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Live Reporting

Matthew Henry

  1. Eng 153-4

    Root 33, Stokes 49

    The Lord's crowd applauds a sensible single from Stokes at the end of the over. The sixes are good but they like that.

    17 runs came from that over.

    The target is now 124 runs away.

  2. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Well, well, this is counter-attacking from Stokes. It feels a bit perilous. He's hit three sixes off Ajaz Patel and he's only bowled two overs.

  3. Eng 152-4

    This is horrible for my heart.

    Ben Stokes swings once more and the ball misses everything, including the wicketkeeper's gloves. Four byes but Stokes was almost bowled.

  4. 6 runs

    Eng 148-4

    Six more! This one is massive from Stokes.

    Hang onto your hats...

  5. 6 runs

    Eng 142-4

    Ben Stokes does it again! It's the same shot as that previous six and into the stands once more.

    England are now beyond halfway. Woaaahh living on a prayer...

  6. Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It's just got a bit brighter now. The sun's just coming out.

    This partnership has now added 67 and it's strangely mirroring the New Zealand second innings.

  7. Spinner Ajaz Patel is coming on for a bowl. He has only bowled one over in this match and was smashed for six by Ben Stokes.

    Joe Root is getting some treatment from the England physio between overs.

  8. Eng 136-4

    Target 277

    It has been more than two hours since the last wicket...

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    Bentel: If we can keep these two in till we are within 100 runs I think we have a chance.

  10. Eng 135-4

    Root 33, Stokes 35

    Things are just going with England at the moment. Joe Root has an ill-advised fiddle but the ball narrowly misses the edge. Root berates himself while Trent Boult has his palm over his face and Daryl Mitchell at slip his heads on his head.

    England were nicking those on day one.

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    An unbelievably nervous hour for those with tickets for tomorrow.

    Emil, Stroud

  12. Eng 133-4

    Need 144 to win

    Five wides! Jamieson, perhaps unsettled by Stokes' attack, loses his radar completely. England won't care how they get them.

  13. Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    There's an air of unpredictability around Ben Stokes at the moment.

  14. Eng 129-4

    Errrm...

    Ben Stokes is charging Kyle Jamieson and clobbering him to the boundary! There are smiles among England fans in the stands. Is belief rising?

    But a ball later Stokes has a massive swing and a miss! Stokes has a look on his face that looks like a man who has just got away with one.

  15. Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

    It's hard to turn when it hits the ceiling first.

  16. Isa Guha
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    As you know, it's Shane Warne Day and the Tailenders have been encouraging everyone to send in their videos of the 'Ball of the Century.' We've had plenty of great clips so we decided to give it a go in the corridor.

    We had some seeded and unseeded bread roll so I wanted to see which one spun more. I tried to give it a bit of a loop and it hit the smoke alarm.

  17. Eng 124-4

    Root 33, Stokes 30

    Here's that moment from a couple of overs ago.

    All cricket between these two teams is just nice, isn't it?

    Trent Boult and Ben StokesGetty Images
    Ben Stokes and Trent BoultGetty Images
    Ben Stokes and Trent BoultGetty Images

  18. Stop it, Michael...

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  20. Eng 123-4

    Need 154 runs to win

    Joe Root stands tall to Jamieson and pulls for four, bringing up the fifty partnership between the current and former England skipper.

    Sir Alastair has just said "this game is on" on TMS which means it's time for all of us to worry.