Summary

  • NZ close day one on 37-3, trailing by 288

  • Robinson removes Latham before Anderson dismisses Williamson and Nicholls

  • England declare on 325-9 after losing four wickets for 27 runs

  • Brook makes sublime 89; Duckett hits sparkling 84 off 68 balls

  • Day two live text will start at 00:45 GMT on Friday

  1. Eng 304-6published at 55 overs

    Stuart Broad is on the charge again, this time swinging like a man trying to swat a fly while wearing a blindfold. Some good work on the boundary keeps him to two.

    Watch out in the deep.

  2. Eng 302-6published at 54.2 overs

    Stuart Broad charges Wagner first ball!

    He gets four leg byes to take England over 300.

    I think the chances of England bowling tonight under the lights are now very high.

  3. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 54.1 overs

    Brook b Wagner 89 (Eng 298-6)

    Harry Brook is not going to get his century today because Neil Wagner's pesky short balls have worked once again.

    Somehow Brook has played back onto his stumps trying to pull.

    The ball has gone off his bottom edge, onto the ground, deflected off his leg and back onto the stumps.

  4. Eng 298-5published at 54 overs

    I am aware people will have been drifting in and out of their sleeping state while following the scores over the past few hours. Does anyone else just end up dreaming about cricket when you do that?

    I've had to bowl the first ball of the Ashes naked before.

  5. Eng 294-5published at 53 overs

    Brook 88, Foakes 30

    We've had a few stoppages today which haven't helped the over-rate. After being checked over, Harry Brook sees off the final ball of Wagner's over.

    There'll be a few more bouncers coming his way now, I bet.

  6. Eng 294-5published at 52.5 overs

    Oooo. Careful there. A run-out may be the only way to dismiss Harry Brook at the moment and a direct hit here and he would indeed have been gone.

    He was called through for a kamikaze single by Ben Foakes.

    Brook is hit in the grille by Wagner a ball later after misjudging a bouncer. On comes the physio.

  7. Eng 291-5published at 52 overs

    Brook 86, Foakes 29

    Like a cat with nine lives, Gilbert Jessop has survived again. He can rest easy wherever he is, for a a day at least before the second innings.

    Brook will have to just make do with a bog-standard century at better than a run a ball.

  8. Eng 289-5published at 51.3 overs

    Two dots to Brook. Boooo.

  9. Eng 288-5published at 51.1 overs

    A four guided through gully by Harry Brook!

    He has four balls to get 16...

  10. Eng 284-5published at 51 overs

    And now Harry Brook has a Test average of 93. Bradman levels.

  11. How's stat?!published at 06:13 Greenwich Mean Time 16 February 2023

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  12. Eng 283-5published at 50.2 overs

    I fear the interval, and the need to play yourself in afterwards, may have scuppered Harry Brook's chances.

    He's now got just five balls to get the 21 runs needed.

    Neil Wagner is banging the ball in halfway down to him. It could be entertaining regardless.

  13. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 06:11 Greenwich Mean Time 16 February 2023

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    #jessopwatch. Worth noting that Jessop hit 17 fours and an all-run five. Many of the fours had well cleared the boundary, but the laws of cricket in 1902 meant that to obtain six runs the ball had to be hit out of the ground. One of these "fours" was caught on the players' balcony. Imagine how fast it'd been with today's laws.

    Anon

  14. Eng 282-5published at 50 overs

    If you could make conditions for bowling in a pink-ball Test they'd probably be these. It's humid, overcast and the floodlights have just taken over the fading natural light.

    The ball is old and the pitch flat, however, and seamer Scott Kuggeleijn is banging the ball into the pitch.

    Ben Foakes gets away with a top edge which loops into an empty space.

  15. Eng 280-5published at 49 overs

    Brook 79, Foakes 28

    You can say it but you'd be categorically wrong.

  16. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 06:02 Greenwich Mean Time 16 February 2023

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    piemontemio: Am going to be the first to say it? If we want Bairstow back, we're going to have to drop Joe Root.

  17. Eng 279-5published at 48.1 overs

    Some lightning has just flashed not too far away but Neil Wagner begins the final session of the day...

  18. What you've missedpublished at 05:59 Greenwich Mean Time 16 February 2023

    Harry BrookImage source, Getty Images

    Just waking up in the UK? England have been Bazballing again in the first Test in New Zealand.

    They are 279-5 from just 48 overs in Mount Maunganui, although it could have been even better.

    After Zak Crawley's brief and action-packed four - he was dropped, bowled off a no-ball and then caught in his 14 balls - Ben Duckett struck a superb 84 from 68 balls.

    He looked on course for a century in the first session before falling just before the break caught at extra cover.

    Since then England have continued to attack on a flat pitch, sometimes to their downfall.

    Joe Root was caught at slip playing his reverse scoop off the seamer for 14 and captain Ben Stokes smacked a pull straight to mid-wicket for 19.

    That left England wobbling a bit at 209-5 but Harry Brook has been sensational again.

    He is unbeaten on 79 from 64 balls at the dinner interval of this day-night match, 21 short of a hundred in a fourth Test in a row.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 05:57 Greenwich Mean Time 16 February 2023

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    As a fairly old England fan looking bleary-eyed at the score, in the Bazball era it now takes me ages to figure out if we're actually doing well. Day one at tea 5 down? Hmm ok. Wait, for 279? In 48 overs?

    Gareth, London

  20. Postpublished at 05:55 Greenwich Mean Time 16 February 2023

    The run map shows Harry Brook scored 79 with 1 six, 14 fours, 1 two, and 15 singles for EnglandImage source, BBC Sport

    Harry Brook has hit a lot through the off side today, helped by some poor bowling from a New Zealand attack that includes two debutants.