Very classy shot from Ben Foakes. Up on his tip-toes to punch the ball through the covers for his first boundary.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Mount Maunganui

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Getting dark. Can you spot the white dot to the right, a plane taking off into the storm? Lively on that flight.

England still refuse to allow a maiden. Ben Foakes is taking his time to get settled but manages to nudge a single from the last ball of Tickner's over to keep up the maiden-less streak.

Steady stuff from England and, despite the moody-looking clouds lurking around the ground, it remains dry at Bay Oval.

Overs-wise, we're not even halfway through the day's allotted overs. With just 30 minutes until the dinner break, I fancy that the extra half hour will be needed.

I suppose if you're staying up all night to watch the cricket, you might as well go all out and power straight through to the start of the traditional working day.

50 for Harry Brookpublished at 39.1 overs

39.1 overs

Eng 222-5

Ramped for four - and Harry Brook gets to his fifty from 43 balls.

Technically just a second Test half-century for the Yorkshireman, but he does have three tons to go with them.

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Matt R: I think the thing I enjoy most about Bazball is how Stokes is somehow the worst at it.

Harry Brook keeps strike with a single from the last ball, he's four shy of another half-century.

Harry Brook is just playing with Neil Wagner, the unfortunate fielder sweeping on the off-side boundary.

He spanks Ticker's second ball to his left. That's one chase in vain.

Then thumps the next to his right. Another chase for Wagner but it's another boundary for Brook.

Big appeal for a catch behind down the leg side from the last ball of the over.

Has Ben Foakes gone first ball? Nope. Tim Southee decides against a review and UltraEdge shows he was right to do so, nothing doing.

Eng 204-4published at 37 overs

37 overs

Twilight, we're told every time England play a day-night Test, is when it is most difficult to bat.

I'm not sure we're quite there yet but those floodlights might just be making things happen.

Tickner gets one to lift from back of a length to Brook, who tries to leave but the ball flies off the shoulder of the bat and away for four.

Stokes then adds four more, another thick outside edge over the slips. They all count.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Mount Maunganui

The floodlights have just kicked into action.

Scott Kuggeleijn is back on for just his fourth over of the day.

The seamer tries, without success, to unsettle Brook with some short stuff. The England man just watches it sail over his head and the umpire signals a wide.

Stokes nearly gives Kuggeleijn a wicket to end the over, though, steering the ball to the solitary slip - thankfully for England, it bounced just short of Mitchell.

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You take the rough with the smooth with Joe Root's wicket. He has played that shot so many times.

That is the flip side of Bazball. You are going to applaud it when it goes well then occasionally goes wrong.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Mount Maunganui

There's a trainline that runs right by the Bay Oval, probably no more than 30m beyond the boundary at one end. It's used to transport freight from the nearby port. A huge engine has just gone past and acknowledged the cricket with a toot of the horn.

I think Harry Brook might be quite good, you know...

He slaps Tickner through point for the first of two boundaries in the over, jumping on the merest hint of width, and then adds the second with a cut down to third.

Time for drinks. Gives me time to get my head around that whole flying dog thing.

Brook hits Wagner back down the ground again, but with slightly less control this time.

He still just clears mid-off and it's four more but it gave the home fans a moment's excitement first.

Brook and Stokes take singles from the next five deliveries.

Blair Tickner is back into the attack and Ben Stokes calmly guides the debutant's third delivery between the slips and gully for four.

Also - and I may just be imagining this - but I'm pretty sure the TV commentary just said there is a dog in New Zealand with a pilot's license!?

Yet again the spectre of a maiden is repelled - and in some style!

Last ball of the over and Harry Brook stands tall and slaps Neil Wagner's delivery back past mid-off with disdain. Brutal.