Totum: Mitchell & Blundell should set up a business selling flood defences, electric fencing, armour plated doors etc. Anything impenetrable. "If you want to keep something at bay - Mitchell & Blundell it".

Stuart Broad strikes Tom Blundell on the pad, turns and appeals in unison with the rest of the England fielders behind the bat. But it's hit him far too high.

A maiden to start from Broad in this spell.

Time for one more before lunch.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

The crowd is up. A tremendous roar is almost blowing Jack Leach's cap off at fine leg. It must be amazing to be bowling with this support and energy around you.

Tom Blundell crouches low and is muttering to himself as Stuart Broad bounds in, his legs pumping.

Blundell is able to leave the first two on a testing length, before he is beaten on the outside edge which draws plenty of encouragement from the England cordon and the crowd alike.

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Stuart Broad has tucked his shirt into his trousers and looks ready for business.

Jonathan Agnew
BBC cricket correspondent on Test Match Special

I've just seen big Dave Millns ready to bring the new ball out but Jimmy Anderson is choosing it. That's quite interesting. He's not playing but he's picking the ball.

Jack Leach is briskly though a maiden.

Stuart Broad is limbering up.

The final ball of Joe Root's latest over is whipped square by Tom Blundell and Jamie Overton comes bounding round and is able to dive to cut off the boundary.

One more over before the new ball.

Jeremy Coney
Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

You lay the blame for losing this series with New Zealand's top four. This series could have been different if a Williamson or Conway hundred would have occurred.

A maiden from Jack Leach as New Zealand's pair regroup. England's spinners are attempting to prise one of these two out before the lunch break with a mixture of containment and attacking bowling

Jeremy Coney
Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

New Zealand will rue not picking Ajaz Patel. It's just a poor decision.

A couple of half chances for England.

Joe Root gets one to skip on to Daryl Mitchell who turns it round the corner but Ollie Pope, stationed at short leg, is unable to get a paw on one which flies past his head.

Next ball and Tom Blundell spoons one up in the region of mid-on but Stuart Broad it drops just short of Stuart Broad.

England had the momentum coming into the morning but this pair have stoically blunted that - seeing off Stuart Broad and Matthew Potts in the first 40 minutes or so and then seeking to be a bit more aggressive.

Jack Leach rattles through a maiden.

Fox Hat: NZ to declare with a lead of over 400 and put England in to bat with half an hour to go tonight. NZ win by 250, or Bairstow does what he does best.

Daryl Mitchell uses his feet this time and slaps Joe Root back over his head for four. He's not quite timed it so it dribbles over the long-on boundary. Next ball Mitchell, who is trying to throw Root off his length, goes back and punches it the boundary.

Alex Hartley
Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

Blundell and Mitchell have been brilliant when their team has been in a little bit of trouble. Just riding the wave and getting through that difficult passage of play.

Jack Leach is quickly though an over which this New Zealand's pair see off without much trouble. All too easy at the moment.

Andy Zaltzman
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Blundell has set the most runs by a New Zealand wicketkeeper in a series. The previous was 292 by Warren Lees in 1996-97 against Pakistan.

'Rooooot' is the slightly muted deep cry of the Headingley crowd for the former England captain but it's an inauspicious start with the ball.

Daryl Mitchell beautifully reverse sweeps Root's first delivery four. The Kiwi batter repeats the trick to the next ball, and gets a boundary again, although this time via a rather ugly deflection off his gloves.