England beat New Zealand by 115 runs: first cricket Test, day four – live reaction
Live over-by-over updates from 11am UK time Match report: Atkinson ends Black Caps’ resistance You can email Tim with your thoughts 25th over: New Zealand
Live over-by-over updates from 11am UK time Match report: Atkinson ends Black Caps’ resistance You can email Tim with your thoughts 25th over: New Zealand 77-6 (Conway 26, Phillips 9) Conway, facing Tongue, decides that he may as well come to the party.
First he steers a four to gully’s right, then he tries to leave a lifter, reacts too late, pats it to Harry Brook at second slip – and is dropped as Brook can only tip it over the bar. 24th over: New Zealand 71-6 (Conway 20, Phillips 9) Robinson continues, moving the ball both ways.
Phillips finds the boundary in no time – but only off the inside edge. And again, with his first shot of some authority, punched past cover. “You need to be playing Twenty20 here,” says Stuart Broad, and Phillips, unlike the rest of the Kiwis, seems to agree.
He’s been there five minutes and has already made more runs than Latham, O’Rourke, Ravindra and Mitchell put together. Continue reading...
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