That’s all for tonight/today/this morning, here is Ali Martin’s report. See you in 16 hours for day two.
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Whose day is it anyway? It feels like honours are about even after a topsy-turvy first day. New Zealand were on top at 172 for 2, then England took control by reducing them to 231 for 7. But some unfettered lower-order hitting – including a lusty 23 with three sixes from Tim Southee – helped New Zealand past 300. By this time tomorrow we’ll know just how good a score that is.
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81st over: New Zealand 315-9 (Santner 50, O’Rourke 0) Santner gets down on one knee to lash Potts over extra cover for four. This is a gem of an innings from Santner, made even more impressive by the difficulties he had against the short ball early on. He finishes the day’s play in style, slamming Potts over mid-off for six to reach a creative, courageous and highly skilful fifty from only 54 balls.
81st over: New Zealand 303-9 (Santner 38, O’Rourke 0) England lose their last review when O’Rourke survives a big LBW appeal from Atkinson. It was straight enough, a beauty in fact, but it would have bounced over the stumps.
Time for one more over before the close.
WICKET! New Zealand 303-9 (Southee c Carse b Atkinson 23)
Tim Southee falls after a memorable cameo of 23 from just 10 balls. He smeared Atkinson over square leg for a third six, his 98th in Test cricket, then slogged one straight up in the air. Carse ran in from mid-off and steadied himself to take the catch.
80th over: New Zealand 293-8 (Santner 38, Southee 13) There he goes! Southee gets off the mark by smashing Stokes into the crowd at midwicket. That’s the 96th six of his Test career, and No97 follows two balls later with a pull over square leg. Tremendous stuff.
Santner makes it 17 from the over with a deliberate uppercut for four. After bowling tightly in the first two sessions, Stokes has conceded 50 from his last seven overs.
79th over: New Zealand 276-8 (Santner 34, Southee 0) Santner thumps the new bowler Atkinson to the cover boundary, and why not?
78th over: New Zealand 272-8 (Santner 30, Southee 0) England form a guard of honour for Tim Southee, who is playing his last Test. Southee pumped nine sixes in a 48-ball 77 against England on his Test debut; he’d love to go out with a similar bang.
WICKET! New Zealand 272-8 (Henry c Brook b Stokes 8)
Now Santner flat-bats Stokes over mid-on for four. It’s unorthodox, a bit ugly - and extremely useful for New Zealand, who were in all sorts at 231 for 7 and are now merely in some sorts.
Henry hooks over Brook at fine leg for six, then tries again and is marvellously caught. Brook took the catch above his head, threw the ball up in the air ball before falling over the rope, then jumped back into play to complete a one-man relay catch. The boy’s a genius.
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77th over: New Zealand 261-7 (Santner 25, Henry 2) That’s how to deal with the short ball. Santner backs away and swats Carse high over extra cover for six! That’s a remarkable shot, played from a long way outside leg stump.
76th over: New Zealand 254-7 (Santner 18, Henry 1) England are hitting both batsmen with short stuff. Santner jumps across to the off side and top-edges a pull over the keeper’s head for four. A forcing shot through the covers bring him three more runs. They all count.
75th over: New Zealand 245-7 (Santner 11, Henry 1) Santner backs away to Carse, who follows him with a bouncer. Santner ducks underneath it and the ball runs away for four byes.
Santner is looking uncomfortable against the short ball, moving one way and then the other. England review for caught behind when he flicks at a delivery down the leg side. There was a deflection but, as with Williamson, earlier in the day, it was off the body rather than the bat.
74th over: New Zealand 239-7 (Santner 11, Henry 0) A superb bouncer from Stokes hits Santner flush on the helmet as he tries to take evasive action. That was a horrible delivery which gave him nowhere to go.
Santner seems fine but there’s a break in play while he’s tested for concussion.
73rd over: New Zealand 239-7 (Santner 11, Henry 0) Pope appeals for a catch down the leg side when Henry flicks at Carse. Carse isn’t interested and Ben Stokes decides not to risk England’s penultimate review.
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Only 13.2 overs have been possible in Brisbane because of persistent rain. Australia’s openers survived the latest trial by Bumrah to reach 28 for 0.
72nd over: New Zealand 236-7 (Santner 8, Henry 0) Henry gets in a tangle with a Stokes short ball and spoons the ball high on the off side. It teases Bashir at backward point but lands well short.
“I’m not quite sure how England are turning this innings round,” says Brian Withington. “At times it feels like it’s an exercise in applied willpower and sheer bloody-mindedness? Mysterious yet effective.”
You can manifest anything these days.
71st over: New Zealand 236-7 (Santner 8, Henry 0) After five dot balls, Carse errs in line and length and is flicked off the hip for four by Santner. That’s the 15th boundary Carse has conceded today in 16 overs, which is not like him at all. I suppose it’s a good sign that he can be below par and still take 2 for 66.
70th over: New Zealand 232-7 (Santner 4, Henry 0) Stokes spears in a yorker from round the wicket that is well defended by the left-handed Santner.
Pope then leaps a long way to his right to save four byes. He’s had such a good series behind the stumps.
69th over: New Zealand 231-7 (Santner 4, Henry 0) That was the last ball of the over.
WICKET! New Zealand 231-7 (Blundell c b Carse 21)
Blundell edges the new bowler Carse short of first slip, then leathers another spectacular boundary through extra cover. Carse grinds his teeth in frustration – and then strikes next ball! Blundell chases a deliberately wide outswinger and spoons it towards cover, where Bethell leaps to take a very good two-handed catch.
New Zealand have lost five wickets for 59.
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68th over: New Zealand 225-6 (Blundell 15, Santner 4) Stokes brings himself back on in place of Atkinson. His first two deliveries are driven stylishly through extra cover for four by Blundell. Santner threads a cover drive for four later in the over as well. After conceding 36 from 16 overs in the first two sessions, Stokes has gone for 13 in a single over.
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67th over: New Zealand 212-6 (Blundell 6, Santner 0) New Zealand have now lost their last four wickets for 40 in pretty good batting conditions. Williamson was unlucky; Ravindra, Mitchell and Phillips all played loose strokes.
WICKET! New Zealand 212-6 (Phillips c Crawley b Potts 5)
The collapse continues. Phillips chases a tempting outswinger from Potts and slices it straight down the throat of Crawley at a deepish backward point. That’s a pretty poor shot in the circumstances.
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66th over: New Zealand 212-5 (Blundell 6, Phillips 5) The cordon appeal for LBW when Blundell is hit on the pad, but the bowler Atkinson isn’t interested. Turns out it was a no-ball anyway.
65th over: New Zealand 210-5 (Blundell 6, Phillips 4) One thing Potts does better than most is make the batsmen play, which is especially important when they are new at the crease. A maiden to Blundell contains nothing he can leave. He played one attacking shot, a back-foot punch that well stopped by the diving Bethell, one of three men on the drive on the off side.
64th over: New Zealand 210-5 (Blundell 6, Phillips 4) Glenn Phillips gets off the mark with a thick edge between gully and backward point for four.
New Zealand were 172 for 2 when Ravindra fell to Carse just before tea. England have bowled better as conditions have got easier for batting.
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WICKET! New Zealand 206-5 (Mitchell c Stokes b Atkinson 14)
Ben Stokes takes a beautiful catch! Mitchell drove Atkinson loosely towards mid-off, where Stokes read the flight of the ball superbly and swooped forward to take an awkward two-handed catch with the minimum of fuss. It felt like a wicket was coming at one end or another; that’s Atkinson’s 50th in Tests, already.
63rd over: New Zealand 204-4 (Mitchell 12, Blundell 6) Another chance goes begging! Blundell edged Potts towards first slip, where Root had his weight on the wrong foot and couldn’t get down quickly enough to his right. The ball sneaked under his right hand and bounced away for four.
It would have been a very tough chance even with more precise foot movement from Root. England are at least creating opportunities, and later in the over Blundell flick-pulls fractionally short of Carse at midwicket.
62nd over: New Zealand 198-4 (Mitchell 12, Blundell 0) Close! Mitchell tries to force Atkinson off the back foot and edges the ball just wide of the diving Duckett in the gully. This has been a hard day’s play to assess; it feels like England haven’t been at their best, but with a bit more luck they could have New Zealand seven down.
61st over: New Zealand 193-4 (Mitchell 8, Blundell 0) Potts bowls a maiden to the new batter Tom Blundell. This has been another good day for Potts, who has the very happy habit of dismissing top-class players. He could play an important role against India next summer, never mind in the Ashes.
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60th over: New Zealand 193-4 (Mitchell 8, Blundell 0) Mitchell gets off the mark by driving his 20th ball through mid-off for four, and enjoys the experience so much that he hits the next ball to the fence. The second boundary was an even better shot, a back-foot drive through extra cover.
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59th over: New Zealand 185-4 (Mitchell 0, Blundell 0) Potts has now dismissed Kane Williamson four times in Tests for just 11 runs.
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WICKET! New Zealand 185-4 (Williamson b Potts 44)
Matthew Potts has got Kane Williamson again! Williamson played a soft-handed defensive stroke that bounced back towards his stumps. He snapped round in horror and tried to kick the ball away, but he couldn’t reach it and it dropped slowly onto the stumps. That’s such a big wicket for England because Williamson looked in ominous touch, as he has all series without making a century.
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58th over: New Zealand 181-3 (Williamson 40, Mitchell 0) A maiden from Atkinson to Mitchell, who stays on 0 after 17 balls. Atkinson has been expensive at times in this series; today his figures have been borrowed from Curtly Ambrose: 13-5-20-1.
57th over: New Zealand 181-3 (Williamson 40, Mitchell 0) Williamson rifles Carse straight down the ground for four, a shot of the purest class. We’re still having technical problems – sorry about this.
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56th over: New Zealand 177-3 (Williamson 36, Mitchell 0) Mitchell is beaten, fiddling at a superb delivery from Atkinson that moves sharply off a good length. He’s still scoreless after 11 balls, though he doesn’t seem the kind of player who will let it affect him.
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55th over: New Zealand 177-3 (Williamson 36, Mitchell 0) Carse bowls a good over to Williamson… until the last ball, which is smacked to the cover boundary. Williamson averages 96 in Tests on this ground, but that doesn’t tell the full story. In his last five games here that average jumps to 257.
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54th over: New Zealand 173-3 (Williamson 32, Mitchell 0) Gus Atkinson starts after tea, replacing Ben Stokes. A quiet over yields just a single for Williamson.
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In isolation that was a good session for England, who took three for 79 in 25 overs. Overall you’d still rather be in New Zealand’s position, but there isn’t much in it.
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53rd over: New Zealand 172-3 (Williamson 30, Mitchell 0) The look on Carse’s face when he realised it might have bowled a no-ball was priceless, somewhere between despair and disgust. It would have been his second non-wicket of the series after he bowled Kane Williamson in the second Test.
Carse’s mood isn’t helped when Mitchell backs away at the last minute because of a problem with the sightscreen. A lively over ends with another heartfelt short ball from Carse that thuds into Mitchell’s stomach. Mitchell sniffs and nods respectfully back at Carse.
WICKET! New Zealand 172-3 (Ravindra c Duckett b Carse 18)
Brydon Carse strikes on the stroke of tea! Ravindra drove loosely at a lifting delivery, bowled from round the wicket, and edged to Duckett in the gully. There was a horrible wait while the umpires checked whether it was a no-ball; it was very close but Carse just about had something behind the line.
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52nd over: New Zealand 171-2 (Williamson 30, Ravindra 18) Stokes has already bowled 16 overs, the most in an innings since 2022 and a really encouraging sign ahead of the thing of which we shall not speak.
Just a couple of singles from the over, which is likely to be Stokes’ last before tea.
51st over: New Zealand 169-2 (Williamson 29, Ravindra 17) Williamson swivel pulls Carse very smoothly for four. Potts didn’t pick the ball up at square leg, which led to an angry back-and-forth with Carse for a few seconds.
An affronted Carse rams in a short ball that hits Williamson on the arm. I think he was through his pull shot too early that time.
50th over: New Zealand 165-2 (Williamson 25, Ravindra 17) The pitch is definitely starting to flatten out. Williamson, who averages almost 100 in Tests on this ground, looks in a bed-and-breakfast kind of mood. This is his 13th innings since he last made a Test century, which is worth about 50 for most batters.
49th over: New Zealand 164-2 (Williamson 24, Ravindra 17) Sorry, we’ve having technical problems again. Carse has just returned to the attack and bowled a maiden to Ravindra.
48th over: New Zealand 164-2 (Williamson 24, Ravindra 17)
47th over: New Zealand 160-2 (Williamson 20, Ravindra 17) Ravindra steers Potts to third for four, then drives the next ball gracefully through mid-off for another boundary. He’s raced to 17 from 12 balls.
46th over: New Zealand 152-2 (Williamson 20, Ravindra 9) England appeal for another leg-side strangle, this time against Williamson. It’s turned down on the field and Stokes, the bowler, decides not to review. Ollie Pope was really keen to go upstairs but Stokes wasn’t having it. And he was right: replays show the deviation was off Williamson’s hip.
Stokes remains wicketless but his figures are good: 13-3-29-0.
45th over: New Zealand 150-2 (Williamson 19, Ravindra 8) The new batter Rachin Ravindra gets going with successive boundaries off Potts, a slash over gully and a wristy on-drive. Lovely, silky stuff.
WICKET! New Zealand 142-2 (Latham c Pope b Potts 63)
Cricket: a funny old game. Matt Potts has bowled multiple jaffas without reward, and now he’s struck with a leg-side strangle. Latham tried to flick a very full pads on the pads and could only divert it into the gloves of Ollie Pope.
44th over: New Zealand 141-1 (Latham 63, Williamson 19) While this has been a frustrating day for England, they certainly won’t think they’re out of the game. They beat New Zealand at Trent Bridge in 2022 after conceding 553 in the first innings, so
43rd over: New Zealand 139-1 (Latham 61, Williamson 18)
42nd over: New Zealand 139-1 (Latham 61, Williamson 18) Stokes beats Williamson with a beautiful good-length outswinger. Amid the loose stuff England have bowled some jaffas, which makes me think New Zealand’s score is a fair way above par.
41st over: New Zealand 138-1 (Latham 61, Williamson 17) That Potts over sums up England’s performance today. Two or three deliveries were spot on, demanding good defensive strokes from Latham, but he also speared a couple down the leg side. England haven’t been terrible, just a bit erratic.
40th over: New Zealand 138-1 (Latham 61, Williamson 17) Three singles from Stokes’s over. There’s still a bit happening for the seamers, which is why we haven’t seen Shoaib Bashir, but you’d imagine he’ll be the next bowling change unless England take a wicket.
39th over: New Zealand 135-1 (Latham 60, Williamson 16) A double bowling change, with Atkinson giving way to Potts. A reminder that he has a brilliant head-to-head record v Kane Williamson: three runs, three dismissals.
Williamson makes it seven runs, three dismissals with a fantastic swivel-pull for four. That shot could have been played by Ricky Ponting circa 2002.
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38th over: New Zealand 131-1 (Latham 60, Williamson 12) Apologies, we’re having a few technical problems. Stokes returns in place of Carse and draws a thick edge from Latham that flies past gully for four more.
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37th over: New Zealand 127-1 (Latham 56, Williamson 12)
36th over: New Zealand 126-1 (Latham 55, Williamson 12) For the second time in as many overs, Carse pulls out halfway through his delivery stride. The immediate look over his shoulder confirms that it’s something to do with the footholes.
Carse’s expensive day continues when Williamson pulls emphatically for four to move into double figures.
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35th over: New Zealand 121-1 (Latham 54, Williamson 8) Latham reaches his fifty with a gorgeous drive through mid-off when Atkinson overpitches. He barely celebrates at all, just a quick raise of the bat, and he’ll be desperate to convert this into a first Test century in two years.
That dream almost dies when he is dropped by Duckett for the second time today. It was a really tough chance, diving low to the left at third slip, and Duckett couldn’t hang on.
34th over: New Zealand 116-1 (Latham 49, Williamson 8) A better over from Carse. Williamson is beaten by a lifter, then hit in the youbetchas by a nasty nipbacker. He responds with a pristine off-drive for four. Carse has been for nine fours in his eight overs so far.
“I’d like to claim that I entirely missed the first session in sympathy with Guardian journalists,” says Brian Withington. “In truth I was distracted by an episode of Dalgleish featuring the quiet unshowy intelligence of Bertie Carvel, the Chris Woakes of investigators. Speaking of whom, do we know why he has been suspended on full pay for this one?”
If it was a series decider I’m sure he’d be playing, but in the circumstances it’s a good chance to have another look at Potts. While I still dream of a nice big penny dropping in the vicinity of Ollie Robinson, there’s a fair chance that either Woakes or Potts will take the new ball with Gus Atkinson at the start of the Ashes.
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33rd over: New Zealand 112-1 (Latham 49, Williamson 4) A quiet over from Atkinson to Latham, who stays on 49. The only runs were a couple of leg-byes.
32nd over: New Zealand 110-1 (Latham 49, Williamson 4) Carse, who has hardly bowled badly at Williamson himself in this series, continues. He’s been nowhere near his best today, though, and Williamson jumps all over a long hop with a slap through extra cover for four.
31st over: New Zealand 105-1 (Latham 48, Williamson 0) The new batter is Kane Williamson. It’ll be interesting to see whether Ben Stokes hooks Brydon Carse after one over to get Matt Potts on. He had a remarkable record against Williamson in the 2022 series: 32 balls, three runs, three dismissals.
WICKET! New Zealand 105-1 (Young c Brook b Atkinson 42)
Finally an edge goes to hand. Young pushes with hard hands at an excellent outswinger and edges low to second slip. Brook, who as well being the No1 batsman in the world is among the most reliable slippers, crouches to take a very good catch at boot height.
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30th over: New Zealand 105-0 (Latham 48, Young 42) Latham brings up the century stand with two boundaries off Carse, a drive through mid-on and a clip through midwicket. Before this game the eight opening partnerships in the side, four per side, has produced a tiotal of 67 runs.
Latham gets his third boundary when an edge scuttles past the diving Bethell in the bully. Carse stomps back to his mark smiling wryly.
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29th over: New Zealand 93-0 (Latham 36, Young 42) Atkinson returns to the attack after lunch with a maiden to Will Young. It takes him a few deliveries to find his line; when he does, Young is beaten on the inside by a dangerous nipbacker. England have simultaneously been unlucky and slightly under-par.
“Putting Australia in at the Gabba?” says Tom Hopkins. “When has that ever gone wrong?”
Ha, quite. I suppoe it helps when you have Jasprit Bumrah.
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The third Test between Australia and India has just got underway at the Gabba. India won the toss and put Australia into bat. You can follow that with Martin Pegan.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to live, belated over-by-over coverage of the third Test between New Zealand and England in Hamilton. As you may be aware, Guardian and Observer members of the National Union of Journalists have been on strike for the last 48 hours, hence the late start to our coverage. If you’d like to know more about that, click here.
Right, to the bin my friend the cricket. New Zealand had an excellent morning, reaching 93 without loss after being put in by Ben Stokes. Tom Latham (36) and Will Young (42) needed some luck, particularly against Matt Potts, but overall they played really well.
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