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Have your say on England men this summer

Live Reporting

by Mike Peter

  1. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Tom Blundell looks like he's given it up. He's not off the pitch yet but he's closer to the dressing room.

  2. New Zealand review

    A second wicket in the over for Shoaib Bashir?

    Tom Blundell tries to reverse sweep and is struck low on the pad.

    Up goes the umpire's finger, Blundell is going to review as the last remaining member of the middle-order.

  3. wicket

    WICKET

    Smith c & b Bashir 6 (NZ 434-8)

    Bashir throws ball in air to celebrate the catchGetty Images

    Caught on the second attempt!

    Nathan Smith smacks Shoaib Bashir's delivery back at the bowler at chest height.

    The spinner parries the ball having thrown his hands up, then gathers comfortably as it dropped again.

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

    New Zealand are fighting to get to 450, anything beyond that they'll probably feel happy with.

  5. Simon Mann
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    The crowd are just sensing something here with Jofra Archer bowling.

  6. NZ 433-7

    Having seen Tom Blundell dropped, Jofra Archer bangs his next delivery off Nathan Smith's thigh and bottom hand, with the ball dropping just wide of leg stump.

    Almost, almost...

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

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

  8. 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?

  9. dropped catch

    Blundell dropped on 28

    NZ 433-7

    Bashir looks frustrated after dropped catchGetty Images

    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.

  10. 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

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Back at it.

    Jofra Archer takes the first over after lunch.

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  18. 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

  20. 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.