Summary

  • New Zealand win fourth successive game

  • Afghanistan lose last five wickets for 14 runs

  • Santner's brilliant one-handed catch highlight of NZ's clinical fielding display

  • Boult and Henry both strike with new ball

  • New Zealand recover from 110-4 to post 288-6

  • Phillips (71) & Latham (68) rebuild for NZ before plundering late runs

  • Afghanistan fielding display littered with dropped chances & missed stumping

  1. NZ 109-1published at 20 overs

    No boundaries from this over but a hint of a stumping chance - Khan beats the bat of Ravindra and the ball bounces off the gut of wicketkeeper Ikram Alikhil.

  2. NZ 105-1published at 19 overs

    The over follows the pattern of the last four, with a single four surrounded by some calm working of the ball around the field.

    New Zealand know they're building a solid platform for some bigger hitting later in the innings.

  3. Postpublished at 11:00 British Summer Time 18 October 2023

    Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    CrowdImage source, Getty Images

    There is an elegance and fluidity with the way Rachin Ravindra plays. It is brilliant to watch.

    This partnership is now a headache for Afghanistan.

  4. NZ 102-1published at 18.1 overs

    Hundred up for New Zealand - another gorgeous drive from Ravindra, cleaving Naveen over the covers. One bounce and then it thuds into the boundary sponge.

    They've scored their last 52 runs off 39 deliveries, having reached their first half century from 70 balls. Motoring on.

  5. NZ 98-1published at 18 overs

    Again Rashid tightens up after conceding a four from his first ball of the over.

    Two more singles from it as New Zealand approach the hundred mark.

  6. 50 runs

    Fifty for Will Youngpublished at 17.1 overs

    NZ 96-1

    Young brings up his fifty with a four!

    He again cuts Khan to the ropes, to reach the landmark from 57 deliveries.

  7. NZ 92-1published at 17 overs

    Ravindra is playing with increasing confidence - he runs two off Naveen into mid-wicket before playing a lovely drive through the covers for four.

  8. NZ 84-1published at 16 overs

    Five dot balls from Rashid Khan after the drinks break, Young will have to wait a little longer for his fifty.

  9. Postpublished at 10:45 British Summer Time 18 October 2023

    Ian Smith
    Former New Zealand wicketkeeper on BBC Test Match Special

    Rashid Khan doesn't bowl many loose deliveries so when he does you have to put it away.

  10. drinks break

    NZ 84-1published at 15.1 overs

    Will Young moves to 48, cutting Rashid Khan's first delivery past a despairing Fazalhaq Farooqi at backward point.

    The opening bowler appears to have hurt his elbow making the dive, and while he receives treatment the players will take drinks.

  11. Postpublished at 10:42 British Summer Time 18 October 2023

    Ian Smith
    Former New Zealand wicketkeeper on BBC Test Match Special

    Rachin RavindraImage source, Getty Images

    New Zealand are coming back at Afghanistan.

    I think Afghanistan won the first two or three rounds but New Zealand have bounced off the ropes and it is Nabi who has been targeted.

  12. 6 runs

    NZ 80-1published at 15 overs

    Afghanistan persist with Mohammad Nabi and Young dispatches him for another six.

    He sends the fourth ball of the over high over long on, nearly taking out a parasol on the boundary's edge. A single to long on then brings up the fifty partnership.

    New Zealand have scored 30 runs from the last three overs.

  13. NZ 70-1published at 14 overs

    We've got a fire drill here in the BBC offices, but I've been granted an exemption and so am here to tell you that New Zealand have scored five singles off this Naveen over.

  14. Postpublished at 10:33 British Summer Time 18 October 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Two sixes in an over. This represents a real sea-change in momentum.

  15. 6 runs

    NZ 65-1published at 13 overs

    A six apiece!

    Will Young sends Nabi down the ground with a lovely sweeping arc of the bat. He takes a single and Ravindra immediately dispatches the Afghanistan spinner to the same area. A confident shot, given he had to wait to get off the mark.

    Ravindra takes a single from the final ball - 15 from it.

  16. NZ 50-1published at 12 overs

    Ravindra gets off the mark from his 13th delivery, pushing Naveen's ball for a single into the covers.

    He then brings up the New Zealand fifty with a drive down to long-on.

  17. NZ 45-1published at 11 overs

    Changes at both ends as Mohammad Nabi replaces Mujeeb.

    Another quiet over - Ravindra runs one into backward square but it's signalled as leg byes. His wait goes on.

  18. Postpublished at 10:21 British Summer Time 18 October 2023

    Geoff Lemon
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    It is so humid out there. It is like having a wet blanket wrapped around you at all times.

  19. Postpublished at 10:21 British Summer Time 18 October 2023

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    RavindraImage source, Getty Images

    Rachin Ravindra doesn't seems like the sort of player who will play a rash shot just because he has yet to score. He is very calm and collected.

  20. NZ 43-1published at 10 overs

    A first change in the Afghanistan attack as Naveen-ul-Haq comes in for Fazalhaq Farooqi.

    One single from the over as Will Young takes one through fine leg. Ravindra then faces four dot balls - he's scoreless from nine deliveries.