Prakash Wakankar
BBC Test Match Special

It's amazing how much this game is about confidence. Five wickets in the first innings and you see a different Leach.

Mitchell and Blundell look to build the foundations of another big partnership, working two singles off Leach.

Peter: Well, Lawrence (17:40), they've had some bad luck with injuries, absences, retirements, even Covid you see.

A yorker from Potts! Blundell jams his bat down and just about keeps it out.

Another tight over from the Durham seamer, just a single off it again.

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

What a bowling change! It's not a great dismissal - Nicholls won't want to watch that again.

Jeremy Coney
Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

What a mistake from Henry Nicholls. His first stride was about four inches and then a lunge. That momentum allowed the ball to carry further. The angle of the bat wasn't right as well. Neither a lofted stroke or a defensive stroke. A comfortable caught and bowled.

You have to applaud Stokes for changing things. It's just vibrant out there now. England are clearly and utterly on top.

In comes keeper Tom Blundell. This is they key partnership for New Zealand in this series.

Blundell gets an inside edge but it drops harmlessly into square leg.

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

The close of play is set for 6:49pm. If a shower comes in soon, then we have to be playing again by 6:19pm.

Mitchell denies Potts a maiden as he works the final ball of the over to square for a single.

Just eight runs off the six and a half overs since the rain delay.

I hate to say it, but there's some clouds coming over the horizon once again.

Lawrence Kershaw: I get that NZ have had some bad luck with injuries, absences, retirements, even Covid. But how can such an insipid team have won the Test Championship just one year ago?

Crikey - slightly back of a length from Potts, the ball jags in slightly and Mitchell's bat moves instinctively towards it. No edge, but only a whisker away.

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

That's a beauty. It flew through. When Broad is bowling at 85mph, you should give him another one.

Nicholls plays and misses outside his off-stump at a swift one from Broad - 85mph.

A quick word from Ben Stokes - asking for one more?

Daniel Norcross
BBC Test Match Special

The clouds are bubbling up over the Rugby Stand but we've still got plenty of sunshine bathing the ground. The crowd are predictably boisterous.

Nicholls whips Broad off his legs for four.

Pressure off ever so slightly.

Here's a reminder of the remarkable way Henry Nicholls got out in the first innings. His batting partner Daryl Mitchell played a part in it - Nicholls will be hoping his team-mate only contributes runs this afternoon.

Just one from the Potts's over, a thick edge down into the leg side from Nicholls.

Bit of a funky field with two short men in the covers and Jamie Overton in leg slip.

Simon Mann
BBC Test Match Special

Jonny Bairstow is clapping his gloves together as if they're cymbals.