England and New Zealand are playing Day and Night Test at Mount Maunganui as part of World Test Championship. They will play their next Test at Wellington. On the Second Day, England have been able to emerge on Top of New Zealand. At the toss, New Zealand elected to field first and that seems to turn out as a bad decision. England have batted at brisk pace to score 325/9 on the first day and under lights they trapped big wickets of New Zealand.
Ben Duckett (84), Harry Brook (89), Ollie Pope (42), Ben Foakes (38) batted well for England on first day. Neil Wagner (4/82), Tim Southee (2/72), Scott Kuggeleijn (2/80), Blair Tickner (1/72) took wickets for New Zealand. Greatest pace bowler of all-time, James Anderson sent back Kane Williamson, Henry Nicholls after Ollie Robinson took Tom Latham wicket. New Zealand have been reduced to 37/3 in 18 overs by England, under lights.
On Second day, New Zealand found resistance from Devon Conway (77) and Tom Blundell (138). Their other saviour Daryl Mitchell got out for a duck. Neil Wagner (27) has night-watchman tried to help Devon Conway to build the innings. It boiled down to Tom Blundell to counter-attack at 158/6 to help New Zealand register 306 on the board. Ollie Robinson (4/54), Jack Leach (1/54), Stuart Broad (1/72), James Anderson (3/36) bowled well for England. Additionally,. James Anderson and Stuart Board as a combination took 1001 wickets as an unit for England in Tests.
In the second innings, England openers scored at pace again. Zak Crawley (28), Ben Duckett (25) have put on 52 runs for first wicket. Ollie Pope (14) and night watchman, Stuart Broad (6) are at the crease and England have scored 79/2 by stumps. They are 98 runs ahead of New Zealand. England will push the scoring rate further tomorrow to put New Zealand under massive pressure in the chase.
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