England look well-set to complete a 3-0 series whitewash over New Zealand after an unbeaten 132-run partnership between Ollie Pope and Joe Root left them needing 113 runs to win with eight wickets still in hand.
England will resume on 183-2 on day five in front of a capacity crowd at Headingley after Yorkshire announced that tickets will be free. And those supporters will surely be treated to a fitting conclusion to what has been a brilliantly entertaining series.
Having put themselves in the driving seat with a late flurry of wickets on day three, England desperately needed to find a way to break the Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell partnership which has repeatedly frustrated them.
