Innings – New Zealand 348 (Williamson 93, Phillips 58*, Carse 4-64, Bashir 4-69) vs England
New Zealand had been greeted by overcast skies and a delicate breeze as they resumed on their in a single day 319 for 8, circumstances that proved way more conducive to swing bowling than had been the case on a sizzling and blustery day one.
Tim Southee took this as a cue to get busy, as he cracked Chris Woakes off his size for a first-over boundary, however he was then undone by Carse’s first ball of the morning. He wound right into a pull from exterior off, and picked out Gus Atkinson at deep sq..
Will O’Rourke, nevertheless, proved a doughty No.11 – aided by Carse’s failure to assault his stumps as he repeatedly left the ball exterior off – and Phillips cashed in briefly to transform his in a single day 41 not out to 58 not out.
He had a scare on 42 when Carse, producing an excellent head of steam, smacked him arduous within the grille by way of a top-edge off the splice, and was then dropped in the identical over by Joe Root at slip, a troublesome diving likelihood to his proper. However Carse ultimately acquired his line to O’Rourke to pluck out his off stump with an outswinging yorker.
