13th over: New Zealand 34-2 (Latham 14, Conway 4) Anderson finally takes a break (6-3-14-1). Stokes turns not to himself, not to Parkinson, but to … Broad. To be fair, there are two left-handers out there and he’s good against them. He beats Conway with a beauty, bowled from round the wicket on a. full length, angled in and swinging away.
12th over: New Zealand 33-2 (Latham 14, Conway 3) In comes Devon Conway, who flopped in the first innings but made a double hundred here last year. He gets off the mark with a chunky on-drive for three. NZ lead by 24.
And Matty Potts, after 26 hours as a Test cricketer, has five wickets for 20.
Updated at 12.41 BST
WICKET!! Williamson c Bairstow b Potts 15 (NZ 30-2)
He’s done it again! For the second time in two days, Potts nabs Williamson, caught by Jonny Bairstow at third slip. He was forcing off the back foot and didn’t get on top of the bounce.
Matthew Potts celebrates after taking the wicket of New Zealand’s Kane Williamson Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters
Updated at 12.43 BST
11th over: New Zealand 30-1 (Latham 14, Williamson 15) Anderson continues and repays Stokes’s faith by finding the edge of Williamson’s bat, but the ball lands just short of Zak Crawley at second slip and dribbles away for four. But again the over ends with a bad ball, short and wide and smacked away by Latham. Can’t Jimmy be allowed, in the light of his long service, to bowl five-ball overs?
10th over: New Zealand 21-1 (Latham 10, Williamson 10) And here he is, Matthew Potts, the hero of the first half of yesterday, when he took four for hardly anything (and then got a duck). He starts poorly today, with a loosener that’s too short and wide and is cut away by Latham, but soon finds some nice inswing and raps him on the pad for a strangled appeal.
9th over: New Zealand 17-1 (Latham 6, Williamson 10) Another maiden from Anderson, but the game is going to sleep. Time for Potts. Or Parkinson!
“Five days,” says Rob Moline, picking up on the preamble. “Is that all you’ve got, as someone said in a dire Hollywood movie once. The recent Giro served up its best and most exciting and decisive competition on day 22 (20 days of effort plus 2 rest days).” Good point, but no, five days is not all we’ve got: a full-scale Test series is 25 days, and even this one is 15, in theory. I wonder how long it will take the ECB to decide that NZ are worth a five-match series.
Ben Stokes and James Anderson Photograph: Adam Davy/PA
Updated at 12.40 BST
8th over: New Zealand 17-1 (Latham 6, Williamson 10) A single to each batter off Broad. Come on Ben, time for a change.
In other news, Boris Johnson has turned up at the jubilee service at St Paul’s and been booed by the crowd, which is quite an achievement. If he’s lost the royalists, he’s lost the nation.
7th over: New Zealand 15-1 (Latham 5, Williamson 9) Kevin Pietersen is commentating and he wonders whether Broad and Anderson will be able to summon the same energy today as they did yesterday morning. Anderson answered the question in one way with that early wicket, but now he answers it in another, finishing his fourth over with his first bad ball – a juicy half-volley which Williamson has no trouble off-driving for four. Get Potts on!
6th over: New Zealand 11-1 (Latham 5, Williamson 5) Broad keeps it tight until his fourth ball, which is just what Williamson has been waiting for: a freebie on his legs. He clips it away for two and instantly adds three more with a chop past cover. New Zealand have avoided an innings defeat.
5th over: New Zealand 6-1 (Latham 5, Williamson 0) A maiden from Anderson to Latham, so Broad will have a full over at Williamson.
“I’m hoping,” says Tom van der Gucht, “New Zealand hang on in long enough for Parkinson to be entrusted with the customary over of pre-lunch spin… Might be his only chance of bowling in this Test. Unless they give the over to Root.”
4th over: New Zealand 6-1 (Latham 5, Williamson 0) No dramas in this over from Broad. Test cricket still has its moments of calm, even when it’s batshit crazy.
A good spot on Twitter from someone called The Flying Pasty. “England top 2 scorers 68, Rest 51,” they note. “NZ top 2 scorers 68, Rest 61.” Yes, these teams are peas in a pod in some ways, and more so now that McCullum has changed sides. But there’s one big difference: NZ are the world champions, while England have won one Test in their last 17.
3rd over: New Zealand 5-1 (Latham 4, Williamson 0) So here’s Kane Williamson, on a pair, not that it seems to ruffle his tranquil demeanour. I read somewhere that, when he was playing under the buccaneering Brendon McCullum, he said “I’m the library at the theme park”. A great line.
Updated at 12.06 BST
Wicket! Young c Foakes b Anderson 1 (NZ 5-1)
Here we go! It’s a classic Anderson delivery, shaping away. Young gets a nick and Foakes takes a fine catch, low to his right. The fielding in the Ben Stokes era has been quite something so far.
2nd over: New Zealand 5-0 (Latham 4, Young 1) From the Nursery end, it is of course Stuart Broad. At the grand old age of 35, he’s suddenly discovered that it’s possible to bowl a full length. An attempted yorker costs three as Latham chips it out to midwicket, so Broad still doesn’t have a maiden in this match. Let’s hope that doesn’t make him revert to bowling too short. NZ trail by four.
“Hi Tim and greetings from Hanoi,” says Phil Keegan. “Regarding David Malcolm’s inquiry about BBC access in South-East Asia, I don’t know what they did to upset the government but here in Vietnam the BBC is completely blocked. You can’t even access the website without a VPN. Best wishes from the tropical heat.”
Updated at 11.55 BST
1st over: New Zealand 1-0 (Latham 1, Young 0) It’s Jimmy Anderson, fresh from his 50,000th not-out and his highest Test score since he last faced NZ at Lord’s, exactly a year ago. He’s on the spot as ever and Tom Latham is so keen to get up the other end that he almost runs out his partner, Will Young. Stokes, swooping in the covers, hits the stumps but Young is home.
Ben Stokes gathers his men into the huddle, arms around each other’s shoulders. We have still had only 82.5 overs, so technically it’s still yesterday.
“May I be the first,” says Brian Withington, “to complain that the superior quality of county championship pitches is not preparing our players for the rigours of two-day Test match cricket.” The gags are flowing today.
“Cartoonish game?” says James Bland. “That‘s all Foakes!” Nice one.
“The WW1 analogy fails,” says Duncan Wilkes, “in that the first two lions over the top lasted rather longer than the donkeys to the rear.” Ha.
So Southee finishes with four wickets, Boult three, Anderson is seven not out and England lead by nine. Their collapse continued – from a high of 59 for none, all ten wickets fell for 82, with a glorious spell of five for eight in the middle there. They remain the masters of Test-match mayhem, though NZ (45 for seven at one point) have given them a run for their money.
Updated at 11.49 BST
England all out for 141! Parkinson c Mitchell b Boult 8
Parkinson reverts to type with a waft to slip. When in Rome… that little innings was just like England’s performance in this match.
New Zealand’s Trent Boult celebrates after taking the wicket of England’s Matt Parkinson Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters
Updated at 11.39 BST
42nd over: England 140-9 (Anderson 6, Parkinson 8) Parkinson gets off the mark in Test cricket with a bunt to leg – and takes England into the lead. As the commentators point out, he may not get a go with the ball, as there hasn’t been a single over of spin so far. He plays and misses as Southee swings one away, but then middles a straight push and times it well enough to pick up four. Trying the same thing again, he mistimes it but collects two. He has eight off just seven balls: you don’t get that from Jack Leach. And eight is what England lead by.
41st over: England 132-9 (Anderson 6, Parkinson 0) Another two for Jimmy, shovelling the ball back past Boult. And the scores are level! So if there’s a wicket now, we can have the Super Over. Anyone seen Jofra?
“Any idea why BBC has blocked the Test Match Special link to the Philippines?” asks David Malcolm. “Have been able to receive it here for years. No obvious rights issues because not many locals follow the sport here and it is not televised. But cricket does interest many expats. Has it also been blocked to other countries in South East Asia?” That, David, is a question for the hive mind.
40th over: England 130-9 (Anderson 4, Parkinson 0) Before the wicket, Jimmy helped himself to a two and a single. And now here is Matt Parkinson, England’s 705th male Test cricketer and very first concussion sub. He plays his first ball with aplomb, a nice solid block.
In 40 overs, New Zealand made 132 all out; in 40 overs, England have 130 for nine. So close to a Super Over.
Updated at 11.25 BST
Wicket! Foakes c Mitchell b Southee 7 (England 130-9)
Yet another one! Southee gets some sharp movement away, Foakes follows it and that’s a simple catch at first slip.
New Zealand’s Tim Southee celebrates taking the wicket of England’s Ben Foakes Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP
Updated at 11.30 BST
39th over: England 127-8 (Foakes 7, Anderson 1) Kane Williamson decides to spread the field for Foakes, which is nearly always a bad idea. Foakes helps himself to a single second ball, showing some trust in Anderson, who repays it with three dots and even takes a single himself off the last ball. Not sure if that’s chutzpah or hubris.
Here’s an email signed “Adrian Goldman (who should be writing a new curriculum for the university of Helsinki)”.
“I loved the analogy of the batting order to the first world war,” he says. Thanks! “Probably explains the injury to Leach on day 1, ‘out of the trenches and…