Summary

Have your say on England men this summer

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter

  1. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Well, that one shot shows us exactly why Ben Stokes has gone out there.

    He is going to go absolutely berserk!

  2. Eng 2-0

    Well, he's not going to hang around.

    Ben Stokes absolutely sears his first ball along the ground to mid-off, then is unable to connect with a lap sweep.

    He gets off the mark from the next, sending the ball down to third for a single to retain the strike.

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    Psychological masterstroke by Ben Stokes. With the series on the line, he knows the guys will go out and play their hearts out for him. Once they've chased down 400 to win, he'll then announce that actually he was only joking about retiring.

    Gary, Cambridgeshire

    Odds on Ben Stokes facing the first ball and getting a golden duck?

    Mark, Aylesbury

    Whats does the future hold. No Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood and James Anderson. Where are the characters coming from? Scary thought.

    Alan, Dunstable

  4. Eng 1-0

    A touch fortunate - Ben Duckett pops a shot aerially into the leg side.

    It clears the two fielders in the ring and lands safely.

    Ben Stokes turns down a second run and will now face...

  5. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Stokes hasn't been in the best of form with the bat but he must have clarity of thought here.

    We know that he will give it everything he has got and leave nothing out there.

  6. Jeremy Coney
    Former New Zealand captain on BBC Test Match Special

    If he feels like he can make a contribution, no problem with that. He has been capable of extraordinary innings in the past so let's see if he's got another one in him!

  7. Daniel Norcross
    Test Match Special commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    This is an extraordinary spectacle, I did not expect this.

    He's bowled 25 overs, it is remarkable.

  8. Eng 0-0

    Ben Stokes won't face the first ball - Ben Duckett is going to take the first ball.

    Nathan Smith, round the wicket to the left-hander from the Radcliffe Road End, has his first delivery spit off the pitch and Duckett fends it off.

  9. Ben Stokes opens

    Well, here we go!

    Ben Stokes is walking out to bat with Ben Duckett.

    He gets a guard of honour from all of the New Zealand line-up this time.

    Like the move or not, the man is box office.

    'This is remarkable' - Stokes gets guard of honour as he opens batting

  10. How's stat?!

    Graham ThorpeGetty Images

    A reminder that the highest fourth-innings run chase in a Test match at Trent Bridge came in June 2022, in the early days of Bazball, when England achieved a target of 299 for loss of five wickets.

    England's next highest at the ground in Nottingham also came against the Kiws when they chased down 284 to clinch a four-wicket win in June 2004.

    The late Graham Thorpe's 104 not out in the second innings of the latter of those matches was key to the win.

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    Why on earth would you declare? Daryl Mitchell was on strike for the next over and can easily strike three or four important boundaries. Time is never a factor with this England side.

    Mark, Swansea

    Loved this innings from Mitchell. Proper Test match innings on a wearing pitch. Hopefully we can show as much character as New Zealand have throughout this series.

    Eddie, Skipton

    So so glad Mitchell got 100 runs. Well played

    Gary, West Sussex

  12. NZ 288-9 declared

    They're calling them in!

    Tom Latham ends the New Zealand innings after Ben Sears faces two more dot balls.

    England will chase 373.

    Ben Stokes sprints off the field... surely not?

  13. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    High class and the celebration was an emotional one because he knows he has played such a good innings.

  14. 100 runs

    100 for Daryl Mitchell

    NZ 288-9

    A battling century!

    Daryl Mitchell turns Gus Atkinson behind square for four to move to 99, then, three balls later, knocks a single to bring up the landmark.

    A remarkably paced innings - 241 balls, he scored 18 off his first 26 balls, was 20 off 60 overnight, was on 63 off 210 at tea today, then added 37 off 31 balls.

  15. NZ 283-9

    Daryl Mitchell sends Jofra Archer's first ball square and hurries through a two.

    He takes a further single from the four ball of the over, and Sears survives the rest of it.

  16. Ashwanth R Kavuluri
    CricViz analyst

    Daryl Mitchell has been hit (on the helmet, glove, or body) 13 times in this innings.

    Only four Test innings in the CricViz database (going back to 2006) have more.

  17. NZ 279-9

    Ben Sears sees out the last three balls of Gus Atkinson's over.

    Daryl Mitchell, on 92 and with one injured partner remaining, will face Jofra Archer.

  18. Steven Finn
    Former England fast bowler on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's been a cracking wicket. Day one was in favour of the batter but now it's different.

  19. wicket

    WICKET

    O’Rourke lbw b Atkinson 0 (NZ 279-9)

    All reds, inevitable.

    But what's this - Ben Sears is coming back out! Evidently they've patched up his finger.

    He resumes with 19 from 32 balls.

  20. New Zealand review

    And that's probably that.

    Gus Atkinson strikes Will O'Rourke plumb in front.

    The big New Zealand seamer takes a cursory review while also walking off in case you wanted to know how confident he is.