Joe Root’s unbeaten 77 and a half-century from the captain, Ben Stokes, gave England hope of beating New Zealand, despite Kyle Jamieson’s best efforts with the ball
Anyone travelling to Lord’s for the fourth day of this first Test is advised to arrive early. Likewise those tuning in at home. A classic finish awaits and, given a series opener that has lurched one way and then the other, there promises to be more twists to come.
Root was also one half of a fifth-wicket stand of 90 with Stokes that helped England push back against the marauding Jamieson. This owed plenty to a huge slice of good fortune early on, Stokes chopping De Grandhomme’s medium pace on to his stumps just one run into an eventual score of 54, only to discover his fellow all-rounder had overstepped. It could yet prove the decisive moment of this match.
Pope’s pinpoint effort from gully had shown excellent presence of mind, De Grandhomme dozily failing to get back in his crease as England went up for an lbw, but chiefly this was vintage Broad. When Jimmy Anderson then got in on the act, thudding an inswinger into the pads of Tom Blundell on 96 to end his own dreams of the honours board, and the debutants Matt Potts and Matt Parkinson mopped up the tail, New Zealand’s only progress had come via an agricultural 21 from Tim Southee.
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