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35th over: New Zealand 118-8 (Phillips 29, Jamieson 1) So here\u2019s Kyle Jamieson, who top-scored in NZ\u2019s first innings with a buccaneering 38. We\u2019ve only seen three sixes in this Test and Jamieson bagged the lot of them.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a>WICKET! N Smith c J Smith b Atkinson 4 (NZ 116-8)<\/p>\n One brings two! And one Smith sees off another as Atkinson goes wobble-seam and draws a regulation nick.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Drinks: England back on top<\/p>\n 34th over: New Zealand 111-7 (Phillips 27) Conway had just tucked Stokes for four to bring up the fifty partnership \u2013 52 off 10.4 overs. He scored twice as fast with Phillips as he had with anyone else. But then he tried to clip a straight, full ball and edged it off the back of the bat to gully, where Bethell, such a natural in the field, swooped to claim a low catch. So Stokes has his first scalp of the match and England are back on course for a big win.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.07 EDT<\/p>\n WICKET! Conway c Bethell b Stokes 41 (NZ 111-7)<\/p>\n Just when England need something special, Jacob Bethell supplies it with a diving catch at gully.<\/p>\n Brilliant cricket from England to dismiss Devon Conway. Photograph: James Marsh\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a007.12 EDT<\/p>\n 33rd over: New Zealand 105-6 (Conway 37, Phillips 26) Atkinson, bowling to Conway, manages a maiden. England have slowed the run rate in the past two or three overs, though I suspect they\u2019d happily trade a few more fours for the wicket of Phillips.<\/p>\n The next email is short and to the point. \u201cHello Tim. Bring on Bashir! Regards, Matthew Doherty.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32nd over: New Zealand 105-6 (Conway 37, Phillips 26) A ball from Stokes keeps low, as so many have, but Conway is able to get down to it. He has a crabby stance, not easy on the eye but very handy on this track.<\/p>\n \u201cA big shout-out,\u201d says Adam Simpson, \u201cto my old mate Rob in Istanbul (over 27). My wife \u00c7a\u011fla also says a big hello to him and his wife, Nuriye. We have an extremely informal and light-hearted running competition to see if we can both get mentioned on the same OBO. We\u2019ve managed it more than once or twice down the years!\u201d It looks as if you may also have something in common on the marital front. I\u2019d like to know it this is a coincidence or a conspiracy.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 31st over: New Zealand 104-6 (Conway 36, Phillips 26) It\u2019s a double change as Gus Atkinson takes over from Tongue at the pavilion end. Conway tries another stroke in front of the wicket, an off-drive that brings him three. Phillips lives dangerously as Atkinson\u2019s high arm exploits the uneven bounce in this fickle surface, but he survives.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 30th over: New Zealand 101-6 (Conway 33, Phillips 26) Stokes makes his first bowling change of the day, taking Robinson off and bringing himself on. So far in this match, he\u2019s been the only bowler apart from the injured Matt Henry not to be much of a threat. Phillips sizes him up and then plays a classy back-foot flick to the rope in front of the Grandstand. That brings up New Zealand\u2019s hundred. If they\u2019d sent Phillips in as a nighthawk on Friday, instead of O\u2019Rourke as a nightwatchman, they might be cruising to victory.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.44 EDT<\/p>\n 29th over: New Zealand 96-6 (Conway 32, Phillips 22) Conway is now so relaxed that he\u2019s prepared to hit the ball in front of the wicket. Facing Tongue, he plays a straight push back past the bowler towards the pavilion. On most outfields that would be four, but Conway has to settle for three.<\/p>\n Tongue then raps Phillips on the pad with a big inswinger. There\u2019s only a stifled appeal and Rod Tucker, standing in his 100th Test, shakes his head. Stokes, to his team mates\u2019 surprise, calls for a review. Sure enough, it did too much and was missing leg stump.<\/p>\n Devon Conway looks nicely settled at the crease for New Zealand. Photograph: David Rogers\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.45 EDT<\/p>\n 28th over: New Zealand 92-6 (Conway 29, Phillips 21) Robinson, with Smith back up to the stumps, restricts each batter to a single. Conway again tries to withdraw the bat and again isn\u2019t quick enough, but this time the deflection goes downwards and the ball bounces before it reaches the slips.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 27th over: New Zealand 90-6 (Conway 28, Phillips 20) Tongue continues, keeping Phillips quiet for three balls before he manages a square drive for two. It\u2019s been a different game since he came in.<\/p>\n Meanwhile an email arrives that has a lot going on it. \u201cHow\u2019s the weather looking at Lord\u2019s?\u201d asks Rob Lewis. (Grey, but dry.) \u201cIt\u2019s a glorious day here in Istanbul. Shame I\u2019m conducting oral exams for Cambridge University.<\/p>\n \u201cA shout out to my wife Nuriye, who is picking tea 1,100km east of here on the Black Sea coast in her parents\u2019 fields, probably dodging showers like they were in London yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n If there was a prize for the most interesting mention of tea in a cricket email, Rob would have won it.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.30 EDT<\/p>\n 26th over: New Zealand 87-6 (Conway 27, Phillips 18) Phillips, not bothering to move his feet, clubs a length ball from Robinson past mid-off. He adds a single, so does the newly liberated Conway, and this partnership has raced to 29, which makes it the equal highest of the innings. Jamie Smith retreats to stand next to the slips, as if to concede that New Zealand have seized the initiative. Phillips celebrates with another crunching drive. This is more like it!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 25th over: New Zealand 77-6 (Conway 26, Phillips 9) Conway, facing Tongue, decides that he may as well come to the party. First he steers a four to gully\u2019s right, then he tries to leave a lifter, reacts too late, pats it to Harry Brook at second slip \u2013 and is dropped as Brook can only tip it over the bar.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 24th over: New Zealand 71-6 (Conway 20, Phillips 9) Robinson continues, moving the ball both ways. Phillips finds the boundary in no time \u2013 but only off the inside edge. And again, with his first shot of some authority, punched past cover. \u201cYou need to be playing Twenty20 here,\u201d says Stuart Broad, and Phillips, unlike the rest of the Kiwis, seems to agree. He\u2019s been there five minutes and has already made more runs than Latham, O\u2019Rourke, Ravindra and Mitchell put together.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.17 EDT<\/p>\n 23rd over: New Zealand 63-6 (Conway 20, Phillips 1) Glenn Phillips, so unfazed in the first innings, starts purposefully again with a clip for a single. But he\u2019s coming in very low in the order\u2026 Conway needs to stay with him.<\/p>\n Josh Tongue spoke to Sky this morning and revealed one of the secrets of his success: at his mark, he has a smiley face, \u201cin case I get a bit down\u201d. Not that he\u2019s needed in this match.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>WICKET! Blundell LBW b Tongue 4 (New Zealand 58-6)<\/p>\n Here we go! Tongue nips one back down the slope, Blundell is pinned on the crease and although he discusses it with Conway, he doesn\u2019t bother to review.<\/p>\n Josh Tongue strikes early! Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a006.35 EDT<\/p>\n 22nd over: New Zealand 55-5 (Conway 19, Blundell 2) Robinson is on the spot but Tom Blundell keeps the first three balls out easily enough, even with Jamie Smith breathing down his neck.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The players are out there. And the ball is in the hands of Ollie Robinson, who has an over to finish.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n The first email of the day comes from John Starbuck. \u201cGood morning. In the Preamble you aver that England\u2019s three main seamers will get the job done.\u201d I\u2019m not a betting man, but I\u2019d like to know what the odds may be on Shoaib Bashir getting an over or two?\u201d<\/p>\n Good question! Almost as long as the odds on an email including the word \u201caver\u201d.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n By the way, if you make the minimum 50 wickets rather than 80, Robinson is no longer the best in the last 100 years. He\u2019s not even the best in this England dressing-room: it\u2019s Gus Atkinson, with Josh Tongue just behind him. And, rather more surprisingly, Brydon Carse is in the top four.<\/p>\n What about Jimmy Anderson, or Ian Botham? Not even in the top 20. Full list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n On Sky, Mike Atherton has been chairing a chat about the papers. With actual printed copies! Good to see that they still have a role to play.<\/p>\n Atherton homed in on a great finding in the Sunday Times. Ollie Robinson is now England\u2019s best bowler, by Test strike rate, since the first world war (min. 80 wickets). Robinson has a wicket every 47 balls, two fewer than the late, great Fred Trueman. If only Fred were here now, on the radio, to tell us how much harder it was in his day and he just doesn\u2019t know what\u2019s going off on Stats Guru<\/a>.<\/p>\n