England vs New Zealand Cricket Match Highlights

Overs27.1 Score95 - 6 Nathan Smith to Harry Brook, Around off, on a back of a length. Brook stays back and plays the late dab. It gets it just past the diving gully fielder, who dives and gets a hand on it. Single taken.

0 Overs26.6 Score94 - 6 Kyle Jamieson to Gus Atkinson, In the channel, on a good length. Gus Atkinson brings his bat out in front but does not push at the ball. He plays inside the line and the ball goes through to the keeper.

Is that a clean catch? Looks like it is by the way the visiting side is reacting. The first replay shows it is a clean take and confirms that this is an absolute stunner, a one-handed catch from Kane Williamson.

W Overs26.5 Score94 - 6 Kyle Jamieson to Ben Stokes, OUT! EDGED AND GONE! A stunning catch by Kane Williamson to send the English skipper packing. Jamieson pushes his length up and keeps it around the off stump. Stokes pushes it out in front of his body with hard hands. The outside edge is found and it goes low towards third slip, where Kane Williamson dives to his right, in front of Tom Latham stationed at second slip. Williamson sticks out his right hand to take the catch. The ball threatens to pop out, but he manages to cling to it close to his right shoulder. End of a 39-run stand. England are now 94/6.

4 Overs26.4 Score94 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Ben Stokes, FOUR! Fine shot. Jamieson looks to bang it in short but this sits up to be hit, on the off stump, just above the waist. Stokes swivels nicely and pulls it behind square leg to pick up a boundary.

2 Overs26.1 Score85 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Harry Brook, A bit too full by Jamieson, on off. Brook brings his bat out in front and firms the drive down the ground. Will O'Rourke dives to his left and gets a hand on it, taking the sting out of the shot. It slows down and Will is able to cut it off. The batters thought about the third run but Brook sent his skipper back. Stokes pulls up a bit while returning. Two runs taken.

0 Overs25.5 Score83 - 5 Nathan Smith to Ben Stokes, Well kept out! Smith bowls it on a slightly back of a length, on middle. Stokes hops back to deal with it. The ball scoots through but Ben does well to pat it down the strip.

4 Overs25.3 Score83 - 5 Nathan Smith to Ben Stokes, FOUR! This will help the English skipper feel a little better. Smith attacks the stumps with a fuller ball. Stokes is standing out of the crease and he takes a couple of steps down the track. He leans across and clips it past mid-wicket for a four.

0 Overs25.2 Score79 - 5 Nathan Smith to Ben Stokes, Keeps it outside the off stump, on a nagging length. Ben presses back to punch it down the ground but the ball keeps a bit low. It goes off the toe end back to the bowler.

4 Overs24.5 Score79 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Harry Brook, FOUR! In complete control this time. Jamieson errs in his length as he dishes out a half-volley, on off and middle. Brook lets the ball come to him and plays it right under his eyes. Eases the drive to the left of mid on for four more runs.

4 Overs24.4 Score75 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Harry Brook, FOUR! Not where Brook intended but he will take it. This is fuller in length, on off. Brook gives the bowler the charge and stays leg side of the ball to force the drive through the off side. Miscues it off the inner half to the left of mid on for a boundary.

0 Overs24.3 Score71 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Harry Brook, Missed out! Width offered by Jamieson, on the shorter side. Brook does not quite commit himself to the cut and goes at it half-heartedly. Ends up chopping it down towards gully.

DRINKS BREAK! The first half of the session has belonged to New Zealand without a doubt. Their seamers have made excellent use of the conditions on offer. What initially looked like a surface on the slower side appears to have quickened up after the rain. England do have two of their best men for a rescue act out in the middle in Harry Brook and Ben Stokes, but with the conditions still heavily favouring the seamers, what follows from here is a crucial passage of play for the home side. Kyle Jamieson is back with a change of ends.

0 Overs23.6 Score71 - 5 Nathan Smith to Ben Stokes, Good length, around off, shaping back into the batter. Ben Stokes goes for a block off his front foot but gets beaten on the inside edge and is hit high on his thigh on an unprotected area. The ball rolls back to gully.

0 Overs22.6 Score70 - 5 Will O'Rourke to Ben Stokes, Around that nagging length, going down the leg side. Ben Stokes gets beaten as the ball skids onto him. The ball deflects off the inside half of Ben's front pad towards point.

2 Overs21.5 Score68 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Harry Brook, This wasn't the best of shot-selection from Brook, but he gets away with it. Slightly short of a length, angling into the batter on middle and off. Harry Brook goes for a lofted punch over the bowler's head but gets it away high off his bat to the left of mid on for two.

0 Overs19.6 Score61 - 5 Kyle Jamieson to Ben Stokes, FOUR BYES! Wayward from Kyle Jamieson as he bowls this on a back of a length and angling way down the leg side. Ben Stokes leaves it and despite diving full stretch to his right, the keeper fails to get anywhere close to gathering it. The ball races to the fine leg fence.