New Zealand vs England

Wicket! Young lbw b Leach 20 (NZ 35-2). Ben Stokes gives Jack Leach an early go and it pays off instantly! His first ball is a slow left-armer's classic ...

Play starts at 11am UK time, 10pm in New Zealand, and I’ll be back 25 minutes before that with news of the toss. If so, it was quite a familiar one: bowl in the channel and wait for the nick. And the Overton window opens – for Jamie, making his England debut, rather than his twin brother Craig, who arrived in the world three minutes earlier and on the Test scene three years earlier. Stokes posts a leg slip, Broad goes straighter than usual, Williamson takes the bait, and the ball flies between Ben Foakes and that leg slip, Ollie Pope. Thereafter Broad reverts to type, bowling fifth-stump, and Williamson watches the ball go by until the end of the over, when Broad produces a beauty, angled in, swinging away and missing the edge. I couldn’t have given a fart in a friary for the Netherlands series.” For a series of mismatches, with many players missing on both sides, it was actually a lot of fun. Yorkshire CCC has had a shocker, as Sky has just shown with a quick guide to the racism scandal. 5th over: New Zealand 13-1 (Young 8, Williamson 5) Undaunted by that near-miss, Williamson glances Broad again and gets a single. A similar delivery brings four as Young plays a cut, but he’s straining to reach it and could easily have got a nick (which might have gone for six over third man). Overton keeps swinging through the whole over, mixing the short stuff with a full length. 8th over: New Zealand 19-1 (Young 10, Williamson 9) Just a single off Pott’s over, which rather passed me by as I was too busy writing the below. The ball isn’t short enough and he gets a bottom edge which might be the end of him if it hadn’t struck the back of his leg. “With all the data these days,” says Gary Naylor, “I’m continually surprised that there’s no proper metrics to evaluate the pace of a pitch or the atmospherics that produce swing or its close cousin, wobble. 12th over: New Zealand 35-1 (Young 20, Williamson 15) Overton continues and Young pulls again, for three.

New Zealand bat first as Neil Wagner, Jamie Overton offer each team a point of difference ... Kane Williamson won the toss for New Zealand and chose to bat first, ...

We're carrying a lot of good momentum into this week, and hopefully we'll entertain a few people as well." Jimmy and Jamie are different bowlers, but it's very exciting to know we've got someone who can bowl with some real pace and aggression." "Maybe Neil Wagner can give us that little point of difference."

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But the hosts have outwitted the BlackCaps to kick-start a new phase under the leadership duo of Stokes and red-ball coach Brendon McCullum. Coming into this campaign against the world Test champions, England had won just one of their previous 17 matches at this level. England vs New Zealand 3rd Test Day 1 Live: England chase a 3-0 series clean sweep against New Zealand as the two teams head into the third Test at Headingley on Thursday. England hold an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and Jamie Overton is set to make his debut after fellow paceman Jimmy Anderson was ruled out owing to an ankle injury.

OVER 15: NZ 40/2 (Williamson 16 Conway 4). Leach has improved no end in the last 10 days and Williamson, guardedly, blocks out a maiden ...

And then Broad completes the over with a wobble-seam beauty, having probed outside off until he found the perfect line. Ben Stokes takes out fourth slip and moves Ollie Pope to leg slip for Williamson and Broad slants the first ball across the left-hander who duly has a tickle at it. Potts loses his run-up a bit and hangs one outside off stump that Young slaps off the back foot through point for four. Big yahoo outside off from Williamson when Potts goes full and a tad too wide and it keeps swinging away. When Broad strays too straight, Williamson flicks it off the bottom strap of his pad for three. Williamson gets his nose over the ball to block and then drives the next ball through mid-off for four. The Western Terrace rises to Jack Leach when he touches the ball for the first time to field the ball at long leg, three years on from his 1*. Young trots a single. Overton is cranking it up in his second over, now reaching 88mph and forcing Williamson to treat him as suspiciously as a Frenchman sniffing a melon. What a bowling change and Young, who managed to see off the new ball pair who bowled well, gets his bat tangled up in his legs and can't reach a straight ball in time. On come the drinks as Conway replaces Young with five balls to go. He alternates short with full and Williamson works the fullest and straightest through midwicket for a single. Conway ends the over by using the swing to turn the ball through square leg for a single.

The Brendon McCullum era has certainly delivered so far. After a run of only one win in 17 Tests England have secured back-to-back victories at Lord's and Trent ...

Jonny Bairstow's swashbuckling innings will live long in the memory and the Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes era is off to a flying start. Here they look to ...

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Matthew Potts to Devon Conway, Touch fuller and outside off. Matthew Potts to Henry Nicholls, NOT OUT! A big inswinger, fuller and slanting around middle and off. Matthew Potts to Henry Nicholls, Touch fuller and around off. Nicholls punches it to mid off. Conway flicks it past mid-wicket and it races away into the fence. Conway drops it to point.

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Under their new leadership duo of captain Ben Stokes and red-ball coach Brendon McCullum, the former New Zealand captain, England were looking to complete a first home clean sweep in a series of more than two matches since defeating India 4-0 in 2011. England vs New Zealand, 3rd Test Day 1 Live Updates: Stuart Broad put England in a strong position heading into Lunch on Day 1 of the ongoing third Test against New Zealand. Broad dismissed Kiwi vice-captain Tom Latham early in the session, before striking on the stroke of Lunch to dismiss the New Zealand captain Kane Williamson. New Zealand recalled Neil Wagner to their side as captain Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat at Headingley on Thursday. World Test champions New Zealand were looking to salvage some pride at 2-0 down in a three-match series. Star batter Williamson returned to the team after missing the five-wicket defeat in the second Test at Trent Bridge due to a bout of Covid-19, with left-arm seamer Wagner given his first game of the series after towering paceman Kyle Jamieson suffered a tour-ending back injury in Nottingham. Matt Henry dropped out of the side, with Michael Bracewell -- who made his debut at Trent Bridge -- preferred ahead of specialist spinner Ajaz Patel. England had already made one, enforced, change to their side with Surrey fast bowler Jamie Overton given a Test debut in place of James Anderson after England's all-time leading Test wicket-taker was ruled out with an ankle injury.

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New Zealand batsman Henry Nicholls was dismissed bizarrely after the bat deflected from his own teammate's bat and flew into the fielder's hands.

READ READ New Zealand batsman Henry Nicholls was dismissed in one of the most bizarre ways that you'll ever see perhaps.

England bagged a huge bonus in the last over before tea, Nicholls ridiculously unlucky to be dismissed.

The Surrey bowler had showed glimpses of pace and promise, landing an 88mph bouncer in his first spell and finding some swing off a fuller length. With cloudless, sunny skies overhead and barely a hint of grass underfoot, Williamson did not need to think twice. But neither umpire Marais Erasmus nor Stokes were sufficiently persuaded by the bowler's impassioned appeal. A partnership of 40 had begun to level things out until Nicholls was the victim of outrageous ill-fortune, hammering a lofted drive off Leach only for the ball to ricochet off the middle of non-striker Mitchell's bat and into the hands of mid-off. Broad followed his early dismissal of Tom Latham with the key scalp of returning captain Kane Williamson in the run-up to lunch and might have added to his haul had a couple of inside edges been a little closer to a diving Ben Foakes. In the middle of a busy week for Broad, who announced on the eve of the match that he is expecting his first child with fiancee Mollie King and celebrates his 36th birthday on day two, it was business as usual for the veteran seamer who took two top-order scalps.

Nicholls is caught by Alex Lees after his boundary-destined effort deflects off team-mate Daryl Mitchell's bat at the non-striker's end.

He was given the benefit of the doubt by on-field umpire Marais Erasmus and the decision review system when it was generously ruled he had got an inside edge on a delivery from Matt Potts. A shot that might have gone for four was instead sent flying to Alex Lees at mid-off via an inadvertent deflection off the bat of Daryl Mitchell who was trying to get out of the way at the non-striker’s end. In a chain of events that had echoes of Ben Stokes’ freak bat deflection in the closing stages of the 2019 World Cup Final, Nicholls was out on the stroke of tea despite middling the delivery from Jack Leach.

HENRY NICHOLLS was dismissed with one of the most bizarre and freakiest wickets in cricket history against England.The New Zealand batter comes out of.

Stokes in the WC19 was unbelievable, but this [is] almost worse." “Daryl Mitchell at the non-striker's end, trying to protect himself and get his bat out of the way, hits it to Alex Lees. “And then he finally gets one out of the middle of the bat.

Nicholls and Daryl Mitchell had put on a 40-run partnership when the former looked to drive England spinner Jack Leach down the ground in the final over ...

Is this the strangest wicket EVER in cricket history? But Nicholls' on-drive forced team-mate Mitchell to take quick, evasive action in his attempts to get out of the way and ensure the ball went to the boundary. Nicholls and Daryl Mitchell had put on a 40-run partnership when the former looked to drive England spinner Jack Leach down the ground in the final over before tea on the first day of the third Test at Headingley.

New Zealand 225 for 5 (Mitchell 78*, Blundell 45*) vs England. It didn't end up being the day of ascendancy that New Zealand might have envisaged after ...

One notable absence for England was that of Stokes, whose ability to swing the old ball might have been particularly useful in the afternoon session. Latham left his first four balls, but after being drawn forward to block the fifth, he was caught perfectly in two minds by the coup de grace, a length ball on off stump that seamed just enough to take the edge and fly through to Joe Root at first slip. Broad, however, was now primed to return for his second spell, and once again, he struck the crucial blow with the final ball of his initial over. However, with his sidekick James Anderson already out of contention with an ankle niggle, Broad's importance as England's senior seamer was plain to see, right from an exemplary and successful first over that claimed the scalp of Latham for a duck. Blundell for his part reached the close on 45 not out from 108 balls - following directly on from his 96 at Lord's and his 106 at Trent Bridge, in another indomitably solid day's work. Facing up to the spin ofJack Leachin the final over of the afternoon session, Henry Nicholls launched into one of his few attacking strokes in a formless innings of 19 from 99 balls.

Kiwi batter Henry Nicholls was dismissed in one of the strangest ways possible and English bowler Jack Leach celebrated the wicket.

Talking about the clash, Nicholls had 19 runs to his name after facing 99 balls. They stated the law with regards to the incident and wrote. Soon after, Nicholls was given out and his inning of 19 runs came to an end. The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) soon took to Twitter to clarify the rules. Could be called one of the unluckiest dismissals, Nicholls got out after the ball deflected from his own teammate's bat and flew into the fielder's hands. During the ongoing third and final Test between New Zealand and England at Headingley, something weird happened on Day 1.

Wicket! Mitchell c Stokes b Leach 109. Leach gets his man! An excellent innings is brought to a close as Stokes sets a trap, Leach tosses one up, invites the ...

The DRS system needs to be turned off and turned on again, prompting a brief delay to the start of Potts’s over. 97th over: New Zealand 246-6 (Mitchell 82 Bracewell 0) Bracewell is on the front foot to a rare pitched-up ball from Overton but an elegant cover drive goes straight to mid-off. 105th over: New Zealand 260-6 (Mitchell 83 Bracewell 12) Bracewell swipes a shorter ball from Broad through midwicket for two, prompting the bowler to give the ball another disapproving stare. 99th over: New Zealand 252-6 (Mitchell 83 Bracewell 5) Broad replaces Overton at the Kirkstall Lane, and as if responding to the introduction of the celebrappeal king, DRS cranks back into gear again. 100th over: New Zealand 252-6 (Mitchell 83 Bracewell 5) England could do with preventing Bracewell getting too set here – a wild swish and a miss outside off gives Potts some encouragement, though the batter is subsequently watchful. A less adventurous field is set for Bracewell, who clobbers the fifth ball of the over high over the bowler’s head for four. “This attempting to get the ball changed is a bit tiresome,” writes Nick Parish. “Any reason there couldn’t be a DRS-style approach to this – you get two or three unsuccessful attempts to get the ball changed per innings, and that’s it. He bashes down another single through midwicket to put Mitchell on strike, and he greets Broad with a really elegant controlled pull through midwicket for four, finding the gaps with precision. 112th over: New Zealand 317-7 (Mitchell 106 Southee 30) Overton’s radar is a bit awry here, and Mitchell confidently bunts a low full toss over the bowler’s head for four. A single square on the leg takes Mitchell into the nineties, which gives him a new record for runs by a New Zealander in a series against England. An incredible achievement in a losing campaign. 114th over: New Zealand 320-7 (Mitchell 107 Southee 30) Leach has a strained shout for caught-behind, thinking Mitchell might have flicked off glove to keeper, but he’s turned down and Stokes declines a review. Which ends a lively old session, which England began well but saw two catches go down, and New Zealand were able to score with ease in the second hour.

England will look to complete a 3-0 series win against Test world champions New Zealand in Leeds. Fast bowler Jamie Overton will make his debut for the ...

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