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 01:51 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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    LathamImage source, Getty Images

    People need to look at this from the NZ perspective - they need to bat through 2 1/2 days, just to save the match. Expect a lot of defensive cricket.

    Rob in Coventry

  2. NZ 89-0published at 34.3 overs

    Tom Latham edges James Anderson, but the ball drops just short of Ollie Pope at third slip. That was comfortably short. England probing.

  3. Postpublished at 01:49 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Sir Alastair Cook
    Former England captain on BT Sport

    Ben StokesImage source, Getty Images

    Credit to Conway and Latham, they've had to work really hard. England have maintained their standards. They've been good enough, with a bit of luck, to hang in and then put away the bad balls.

    It's probably the first hour as a captain where Ben Stokes has just let it settle. He hasn't changed it up, done fancy fields. I wonder if in the next hour he will change it up?

    I'm really surprised he hasn't bowled.

  4. NZ 88-0published at 34.1 overs

    Tom Latham has not retreated into his shell and eases on the back foot to cut James Anderson's first ball after drinks for four.

  5. Postpublished at 01:46 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Well played, Mr Stocks.

  6. View from the press boxpublished at 01:46 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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  7. drinks break

    Drinks breakpublished at 01:43 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Quick chance to take stock.

  8. NZ 84-0published at 34 overs

    Wisps of cloud hang low over Wellington as Jack Leach toils away over the wicket to this left-handed pair. Strange we've not see Joe Root on to spin the ball away from them both.

    "Caaatchh-oooohhh" shouts Leach as Devon Conway comes down the pitch to his fourth delivery and aerially clips the ball into the leg side, but safely into vacant turf.

  9. NZ 81-0published at 33 overs

    Latham 39, Conway 42

    James Anderson a fraction too straight to Devon Conway, who is able to trust his defence against England's all-time leading wicket-taker. Is this part of Anderson's set-up, by encouraging him to feel bat on ball?

    Back-to-back maidens.

  10. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 01:37 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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    Lee: Re Rachel's request. It has to be Jack Leach's epic 1 not out 17-ball innings. Headingley 2019. Defensive prowess, steamed up glasses. It had it all!

  11. NZ 81-0published at 32 overs

    Tom LathamImage source, Getty Images

    England are a little frustrated, but worth rembering that Devon Conway has a Test average of 53 while Tom Latham got his career-best 264* on this ground, against Sri Lanka in 2018. There was going to be a period when their batters wrestled back some of the momentum.

    Jack Leach wraps up a maiden.

  12. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 01:33 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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    Iain Jenkins: Gary Pratt running out Ricky Ponting - the greatest moment in the entire history of sport!

  13. Postpublished at 01:33 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    David Gower
    Ex-England captain on BT Sport

    It's moments like that where you need to grab the chance - literally. For me that has carried. It's a chance.

  14. NZ 81-0published at 31 overs

    James Anderson into the attack.

    His fourth ball almost brings England a wicket... but instead New Zealand get a boundary as Devon Conway edges it through the slips.

    Did it carry to the diving Zak Crawley at second slip? It was close.

  15. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 01:30 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

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    Suggestion for Rachel, it has to be the Anya Shrubsole story, a childhood dream age 9 to play at Lord's like her father, came true years later winning a World Cup for England.

    Trevor

  16. NZ 76-0published at 30.0

    Excellent shot from Devon Conway has David Gower purring about his "beautiful high hands". A fraction short from Jack Leach with his penultimate delivery and Conway uses the depth of the crease to time a back foot punch through the covers for four.

    Dua Lipa's One Kiss blares around the Basin Reserve as Ben Stokes prepares to make a bowling change.

  17. Postpublished at 01:26 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    David Gower
    Ex-England captain on BT Sport

    LeachImage source, Getty Images

    No sweep shots from either of these players to Jack Leach.

  18. 6 runs

    NZ 72-0published at 29.1 overs

    Devon Conway saunters down the pitch and, easy you like, lifts Jack Leach back over mid-on's head and into the stands. Trying to throw the England spinner off his length, perhaps.

  19. Postpublished at 01:23 Greenwich Mean Time 26 February 2023

    Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport chief cricket writer in Wellington

    Joe Root getting loose. Off-spin at the two left-handers on a pitch offering some turn.

  20. NZ 66-0published at 29 overs

    Stuart Broad loses his line a little in that over, allowing two balls to slip down the leg side to Tom Latham. Unusually, for a left-hander he's twice not able to glance it to the boundary.

    Four runs off that over.