England beat New Zealand by five wickets: second Test, day five – as it happened

Ben Stokes and Ben Foakes celebrate victory. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

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That’s it from us. After four hours of delirium and disbelief, I find myself with a very happy headache. Thanks to Daniel Harris for teeing things up so nicely (and choosing to go first today). Thanks to you for keeping us company – and making Boris Johnson’s Rwanda policy only the second most-read story of the afternoon on The Guardian site.

Thanks to the authors of the many witty emails we’ve received, especially the ones I didn’t have time to open. And thanks above all to two people: Jonny Bairstow, who has given us some magic memories, and Ben Stokes, who has changed the culture of the England team in two Tests flat.

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“Test cricket,” wrote James Walsh a while ago, “is now Bairstow hitting the best bowler in the match for six and the camera cutting, inexplicably, to a man in the crowd dressed as a lobster.

“Surreal experience here in London Bridge – watching the denouement in an old man’s pub with the sound turned off and Magic FM playing. Sixes flying everywhere and me the only one watching – I guess 2005 was a long time ago.”