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. Postpublished at 03:57 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Here's Jimmy.

  2. NZ 164-2published at 60 overs

    Leach ends his latest with a ripper to beat Williamson. The ball was angled in, pitching on off stump and turned sharply to fizz past the edge.

    It comes after Young had got a thick edge between the slip and short leg fielders earlier in the over. Good stuff from England's left-arm spinner.

  3. Postpublished at 03:55 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Loving this picture of Ollie Pope after he took a brilliant catch at bat pad to break that opening partnership between Devon Conway and Tom Latham.

    PopeImage source, Getty Images
  4. NZ 163-2published at 59 overs

    Kane Williamson has not been in the best of nick in this series but shows his class with a pull for four midway through the Broad over. He had all the time in the world as he played that.

    The England bowler responds well, though, and beats Williamson's tentative prod to end the over.

  5. NZ 159-2published at 58 overs

    Trail by 67 (F/O)

    Leach races through the over. A maiden to Young, who is doing his best to get forward and smother the spin - successfully for the time being.

  6. NZ 159-2published at 57 overs

    Trail by 67 (F/O)

    Tidy enough from Broad but nothing to concern Williamson or Young in the over.

    Jimmy Anderson, who I mentioned didn't come out at the start of the session, is back out there now.

    There is another bowling change but it's Leach rather than Anderson coming on. Root hooked after taking the wicket of Latham. Harsh...

    RootImage source, Getty Images
  7. Postpublished at 03:42 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Spin has done the trick for England but it's going to be seam now. Stuart Broad is back after a change of ends.

  8. How's stat?!published at 03:41 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    An impressive opening partnership of 149 by Tom Latham and Devon Conway. But still some way short of New Zealand's highest first-wicket stand against England.

    Steve Dempster (136) and Jack Mills (117) put on 276 for the Kiwis in the second Test in January 1930. The match, incidentally, was also at the Basin Reserve in Wellington.

  9. NZ 156-2published at 56 overs

    Will Young is the new batter and gets off the mark with a single first ball.

    Those two wickets have changed things again, both openers gone and New Zealand are still 70 runs short of making England bat again.

    Spin is doing the trick for the tourists at the Basin Reserve.

  10. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 55.5 overs

    Latham lbw b Root 83 (NZ 155-2)

    RootImage source, Getty Images

    Big wicket! Joe Root removes the set batter.

    Tom Latham went for the sweep - a shot he's used sparingly in the innings - and when he missed, it was always going to be close.

    It was but it was umpire's call on impact and the ball was crashing into off stump.

    England now have two relatively new batters at the crease.

  11. New Zealand reviewpublished at 55.5 overs

    Has Root got another big wicket!? He thinks so and so does the umpire.

    Latham reviews the lbw decision though. Big moment in the game...

  12. Postpublished at 03:36 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    David Gower
    Ex-England captain on BT Sport

    Ben Stokes is forced to ring the changes, so he's gone back to Joe Root. He should have bowled much earlier for me.

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    Get Involvedpublished at 03:35 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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    Ryan in Malta: Great start by New Zealand. You do get the impression they have decided to wear England down and ignore the BazBall factor... maybe the way teams will play against us in the future?

  14. Postpublished at 03:34 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Just a one-over spell from Broad. He's replaced by Joe Root.

  15. NZ 154-1published at 54 overs

    The sun is shining in Wellington now, it makes a change from the overcast conditions we've seen so far in this Test and the fans on the grass banks seem to be enjoying it.

    Two from Leach's over.

  16. Postpublished at 03:30 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    DuckettImage source, Getty Images

    England's players have been only too happy to sign autographs for fans in this Test. Last night, when rain forced the players from the field, James Anderson spent a while signing bats etc, and Ben Stokes did something similar at the end of New Zealand's first innings this morning. England being good tourists...

  17. NZ 152-1published at 54 overs

    We've got a break from those Stokes bouncers now as Stuart Broad comes into the attack.

    Williamson gets off the mark from the last ball of the over, two worked through square leg.

  18. View from the press boxpublished at 03:26 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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  19. NZ 149-1published at 53 overs

    Trail by 77 (F/O)

    So nearly a London buses situation for England!

    Kane Williamson pushes hard at his first ball from Leach and the ball flies off the face of the bat and just wide of Pope at silly point.

    If anyone had a chance of taking that, it was Pope. But that would have topped his grab to remove Mitchell yesterday.

  20. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 52.5 overs

    Conway c Pope b Leach 61 (NZ 149-1)

    LeachImage source, Getty Images

    Breakthrough! Jack Leach gets the wicket that England so desperately wanted.

    Devon Conway pushes forward, the ball grips and turns, a bit of bounce, inside edge onto pad and Ollie Pope dives forward to take the catch.

    An impressive opening stand is broken and out walks Kane Williamson.