Here’s Ali Martin’s report.
Close of play! England trail by 16
36th over: England 116-7 (Foakes 6, Broad 4) While this mayhem has been unfolding, Ben Foakes has played the role of the innocent bystander. Realising there may not be much time left in the innings, he goes on the attack now with a pair of threes, one squirted past the slips, the other shovelled into the covers. And that’s stumps.
What a day. New Zealand started both innings abysmally, but recovered twice – once with the bat, adding a feisty 96 to 36 for six, and then with the ball, turning England’s 59 for none into a collapse that was quite something even by their high standards. And so a dream day for Ben Stokes turned into the same old nightmare. We’ve had 17 wickets already, four of them taken in great style by the debutant Matty Potts, who finds himself playing in a potty match. I do hope you haven’t got tickets for day five.
Thanks for your company and correspondence, and I’ll be back in the morning to see what happens next in this crazy old game. The second-last word goes to Guy Hornsby on Twitter. “Not so much blank canvas,” he mutters, “as blank scorecard.”
The last word goes to Joseph Harvey. “Well that’s Stokes done for,” he says. “Who’s next in line?”
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