Summary

  • England take three wickets in evening session but NZ edge day three

  • NZ openers put on 149 before Leach has Conway caught at bat pad

  • Latham follows soon after for 83, lbw to Root

  • Leach bowls Young with superb delivery

  • England enforce follow-on with NZ 226 runs behind

  • NZ following-on at home for first time since 2010

  1. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 23:37 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

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    FPL Bateman: Re 22:43 entry, Darren Gough's Ashes hat-trick in 94-95 should entertain Rachel's seven-year-old. Gives me tingles thinking about it.

    Jim McPhee: The second Test in Kolkata 2001. Australia vs India. Cricketing perfection!

    Tim Oates: Surely it depends on what type of cricketer Rachel wants to raise. Does she want a batter or a bowler? I’m keen on my son becoming a spinner, he’s seen a lot of Shane Warne, Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar.

  2. NZ 23-0published at 12 overs

    Trail by 203 (F/O)

    Conway decides he has to try and do something different so advances to Broad, only to skew the ball through the covers.

    Not a particularly pretty shot but it brings him three runs.

  3. Postpublished at 23:32 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

    Jack LeachImage source, Getty Images

    It's a late one at the end of the week, so doubtless a few of you are starting to consider hitting the hay as we meander into the early hours of the morning. Rest assured you can keep up to date with all the goings on from the Basin Reserve in Wellington using the BBC Sport app.

    Turn them on so that when you fumbling around in the dark for your mobile phone in the wee small hours you can see the latest wicket to fall right on your lock screen. Clever, eh?

    Find us in your phone's app store, or if you have the app installed head to the notifications section on the menu.

  4. NZ 19-0published at 11 overs

    Trail by 206 (F/O)

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    Perhaps fed up of seeing Conway happily leaving the all, Anderson goes around the wicket to the left-hander and is promptly tucked for a single.

    Just Conway's second run and Anderson knows it, he has a brief word with the batter as he walks back to his mark. Seemed friendly enough.

  5. NZ 19-0published at 10 overs

    Latham 18, Conway 1

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    England keep joining up those dots. Six more from Broad to Latham.

    No scares but no real shot in anger either.

    Talk from the TV commentators is that this pitch will only get flatter. Maybe not what the England bowlers would want to hear but it does raise the prospect of England trying to chase 250 in a session on day five...

  6. NZ 19-0published at 9 overs

    Latham 18, Conway 1

    Another Anderson maiden and a good battle with Devon Conway, who has just the solitary run to his name after facing 22 balls.

    The left-hander leaves a couple on length and is denied a couple of runs when a thick edge is well stopped by fourth slip.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 23:19 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

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    Paul Brooks: Rachel, anything by Geoffrey Boycott.... if you are having trouble getting her to sleep.

    Dave J: She should check out Alan Donald's fearsome spell vs Michael Atherton in 1998 and Andrew Flintoff's famous over vs Ricky Ponting in 2005.

    Andrew Loveridge: If nobody has already mentioned it, for Rachel’s daughter - Devon Malcolm taking 9/57 vs South Africa at the Oval in ‘94 - “You guys are history”

  8. NZ 19-0published at 8 overs

    Broad is quickly back on it and gets the ball to lift sharply from just back of a length.

    Latham plays it well but that is something New Zealand will have to be wary of, we've seen a couple of balls do that now.

  9. NZ 19-0published at 7.1 overs

    Stuart Broad is into the attack and Latham gives his first ball short shrift. Half-volley just outside off and it's driven through mid-off for four.

  10. NZ 15-0published at 7 overs

    Trail by 211

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    After Latham pulls confidently in front of square for four, Anderson respond as you'd expect: a beauty that nips away to beat the edge.

    Devon Conway then has a waft at one later in the over, so close to the edge and the New Zealand opener will be very relieved to have missed it. That was loose in the extreme.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 23:09 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

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    Roberto Colombi: For Rachel’s daughter: Tess Flintoff’s women’s fastest 50 in T20 in the women’s Big Bash; Ellyse Perry’s chanceless double century at North Sydney Oval in an Ashes Test. The women’s game is amazing and only right she should have female role models to look up to.

  12. NZ 10-0published at 6 overs

    Another probing over from Robinson. England are pushing but no joy as yet, time for Stuart Broad soon?

  13. NZ 9-0published at 5 overs

    Maiden over for Anderson but the New Zealand openers are still holding firm.

    The pitch isn't doing anything untoward. Let's see how things look once this ball gets a bit older. England will hope to have taken a couple of wickets by then, of course.

  14. Postpublished at 23:02 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

    I feel like this is the answer, Daniel, but - as with Botham's Ashes - you probably want to build up to an entire Test series...?

  15. get involved

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    Daniel Cochlin: Re 10:43 cricket moments. The entire Ashes 2005 DVD from start to finish. Still the ultimate pinnacle of the drama and skill of Test cricket.

  16. NZ 9-0published at 4 overs

    Latham 8, Conway 1

    Latham and Conway are having to dig in against the new ball but are doing a decent job so far.

    No real scares as yet despite some testing bowling from Anderson and Robinson.

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    Scott Leicester: In response to Rachel's question about her daughter at 10:43, the must go-to for cricketing education has to be Botham’s Ashes.

    Chris Pimlott: I’d recommend showing her Alice Capsey’s 50 v Ireland (pictured).

    Ashley Billington: In response to Rachel, simply has to be Brian Charles Lara: 153* vs Australia.

  18. Postpublished at 22:56 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Wellington

    I make this the first time England have enforced the follow-on since the third Test against Pakistan in 2020, when Zak Crawley made 267 and James Anderson went to 600 Test wickets.

  19. NZ 8-0published at 3 overs

    Trail by 218

    A pair of twos from Anderson's second over, the first of them an edge them bounces short of the slips and sneaks through.

    The next is a pull shot, not timed, that loops safely in front of square.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 22:54 Greenwich Mean Time 25 February 2023

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    Jambarrell: Re Rachel Armitage's question at 10:43. Andy Caddick's four wickets in one over versus West Indies. Look up the video online.