Summary

Have your say on England men this summer

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter

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

    New Zealand are looking like they're interested in making runs

  2. Stephan Shemilt
    BBC Sport cricket correspondent at Trent Bridge

    If England are trying to get a catch at deep square leg, why do they not have a better fielder there?

  3. dropped catch

    Blundell dropped on 28

    NZ 433-7

    Tough chance!

    Jofra Archer sends down a bumper and Tom Blundell top-edges his pull, sending the ball looping out towards backward square.

    Shoaib Bashir runs in from the rope and dives forward, but can only get his fingertips on the ball.

    Blundell runs a single to move to 29.

  4. NZ 432-7

    Nicely bowled by Shoaib Bashir, ripping a ball past the outside edge of Tom Blundell's bat.

    A couple of singles off the over.

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    On cricketing literature (13:34), I remember reading 'Mike at Wrykyn' by P G Wodehouse as a child. Inspired me to practice harder...

    Simon, West Sussex

    On the subject of cricketing sagas there is a terrific anthology of short stories called The Faintest of Tickles. My favorite was a dystopian short story of “The Splashes” set in a future where climate change has made Australia a very wet country.

    Phil, North Carolina

    The Cricket Match by Hugh De Sélincourt (written in 1924). Not read it since my youth, but it sticks in the memory as a classic.

    John, Ilkley

  6. NZ 430-7

    A first four of the session, as Tom Blundell gets the better of a Jofra Archer bouncer and sends it away behind square.

    The only scoring shot of the over.

  7. NZ 426-7

    Four runs off the first three balls of Shoaib Bashir's over, with Tom Blundell taking two through backward point to take the run total on Bashir's figures into three figures.

    The spinner goes without conceding in the back half of his over.

  8. NZ 422-7

    Blundell 20, Smith 4

    Four runs off Jofra Archer's first over.

    Ben Stokes and Josh Tongue bowled England's last two overs before lunch, we've got changes at both ends after the interval with Shoaib Bashir coming on for his first deliveries of the day.

  9. Back at it.

    Jofra Archer takes the first over after lunch.

  10. Ben Stokes dismissed Mitchell Santner in somewhat controversial fashion in the morning session.

    Out or not?

    Shall we do one of those thumbs up (out) and thumbs down (not out) polls?

    Stokes controversially dismisses Santner for 250th Test wicket

  11. Anyway, if anyone else read Glory Gardens as a child, or has read, or indeed written, any other great cricketing sagas then let me know.

    An underserved genre.

  12. Having praised Tim as a scholar and an author, my thoughts are turning to cricketing fiction (it is, I'm told, the national year of reading).

    As a child, I was enthralled by the exploits of Hooker Knight and his team in the Glory Gardens series, a set of books about a teenage cricket team with frightening ability and an almost savant level of cricket knowledge.

    While I was happy to get the ball off the square at that age, and would have considered anything other than a ring field elaborate, Hooker and his pals were pulling off powerful late cuts and plotting elaborate ploys to dismiss the opposition.

    Plus more fiction should come with detailed scorebooks.

    I did try and find these books recently at my parents' house, but I fear they may have been purged. A great loss.

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    Re Tom in London. I played for a club called Fiskerton CC in Notts and we had an opener called Kev who looked like Ricky Gervais under a helmet. He once scored an impressive 64 ball duck. Suspect closer to how Ricky Gervais would play cricket than Tom Blundell...

    Ed, Nottingham

  14. Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on Test Match Special

    England have bowled nicely today, they've managed to slow New Zealand down. Better bowling than yesterday. They've changed the game.

  15. On Test Match Special this lunch time we've got Jonathan Agnew interviewing Marcus North, who was appointed England men's national selector in May.

    Tune in at the top of the page, it's a good listen thus far.

  16. Thank you, Timothy. A scholar, author and a gentleman.

    New Zealand added 57 runs in 23.5 overs while losing three wickets.

    England's morning indeed, but 417-7 remains a rather healthy score.

    Here's how WinViz has it.

    WinViz gives England 16% chance of victory, New Zealand 47% and the draw 37%CricViz

  17. Timothy Abraham
    BBC Sport

    England's morning you would say.

    I'm off for a bite to eat myself.Thankfully, Mike Peter is suitably replenished and will guide you through the lunch interval and beyond.

  18. New Zealand 417-7 at lunch

    Tom Blundell manages to negotiate the final three balls of the session from Josh Tongue.

    The England seamer strikes Blundell on the pad with his penultimate delivery, slanted across him and there's an appeal but it clearly would have been going down leg so it's not pursued any further.

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    Some would say it’s not relevant, but have we spoken about how much Tom Blundell looks like Ricky Gervais under the helmet. Uncanny.

    Tom, London

  20. NZ 417-7

    Brendon McCullum pushes the aerial of his walkie talkie against his lips on the England balcony.

    Nathan Smith works Josh Tongue off his pads for a single into the leg side.

    England unhappy with the ball, which does not go through the respective gauge, so we have a slight delay as its changed.