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But that was enough time for the 32-year-old Robinson to take two wickets for no runs in four balls as New Zealand slumped to 53-5 in their second innings.<\/p>\n
The Black Caps added two more runs before rain, which meant there was no play before lunch, returned at 1310 GMT Saturday.<\/p>\n
The umpires finally abandoned proceedings for the day at 1629 GMT, with a handful of spectators still braving the bad weather as the floodlights pierced the gloom in northwest London.<\/p>\n
At 55-5, New Zealand need 199 more runs to reach a victory target of 254 in what is the 150th Test staged at Lord\u2019s — the most at any ground.<\/p>\n
On only five occasions have the Black Caps successfully chased a higher total to win a Test. Only four sides have made more in the fourth innings to win a Test at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Opening batsman Devon Conway was 19 not out, with wicketkeeper Tom Blundell unbeaten on two at stumps.<\/p>\n
Ollie Robinson of England celebrates dismissing Rachin Ravindra of New Zealand during the 1st Rothesay Test Match between England and New Zealand at Lord’sSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
New Zealand were struggling at 36-3 at Friday\u2019s close after England paceman Gus Atkinson struck twice and fast bowler Josh Tongue dismissed key batsman Kane Williamson.<\/p>\n
England\u2019s strong position in their first Test since a 4-1 Ashes series loss in Australia owed much to debutant Emilio Gay.<\/p>\n
The opening batsman top-scored with 57 in England\u2019s second-innings total of 226 — a valuable contribution in a low-scoring game where the pitch has favoured the fast bowlers throughout.<\/p>\n
New Zealand were bowled out for just 113 in their first innings, with recalled seamer Robinson taking his Test-best figures of 5-39 following more than two years of England exile.<\/p>\n
With grey skies, allied to a lively pitch, once more proving helpful to the pacemen, he was soon back in the wickets again.<\/p>\n
Rachin Ravindra had made just eight when he was undone by a brilliant Robinson delivery that angled in and then nipped away before clean bowling the squared-up left-hander, the ball hitting the top of off stump to leave New Zealand 53-4.<\/p>\n
In his next over, Sussex captain Robinson removed Daryl Mitchell for a duck when the batsman was given out lbw to a full-length ball that pitched on the line of middle and leg stumps.<\/p>\n
Mitchell reviewed but replays confirmed he had been in front of his stumps playing all round an attempt to flick the ball away.<\/p>\n
His dismissal was upheld on umpire\u2019s call, with Mitchell\u2019s exit the 22nd wicket in under three days\u2019 play to have fallen as a result of being bowled or leg before — evidence of the challenging conditions confronting batsmen on both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ollie Robinson continued to prove a thorn in New Zealand\u2019s side, taking two quick wickets, as England moved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,689,348931,348930,740,116758,346234,1208,24160,2057,348929,17071,2105,24161,151589,2022,1736,3583,677,311748,213056,47911,85,348927,60611,348932,3586,339966,348928,348933],"class_list":["post-719806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-challenging-conditions-confronting","tag-conditions-confronting-batsmen","tag-cricket","tag-daryl-mitchell","tag-emilio-gay","tag-england","tag-england-v","tag-europe","tag-full-length-ball","tag-gareth-copley","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-gus-atkinson","tag-kane-williamson","tag-london","tag-new-zealand","tag-northern-europe","tag-oceania","tag-ollie-robinson","tag-opening-batsman","tag-series-loss","tag-sports","tag-squared-up-left-hander","tag-three-match-series","tag-tom-blundell","tag-united-kingdom","tag-valuable-contribution","tag-victory-target","tag-weather-halts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}