England vs New Zealand, Test 3, Report Day 2: England 264/6 At Stumps, Trail New Zealand By 65 Runs

England last week went 2-0 up in a three-match series with bold and belligerent cricket play under the guidance of their new pair of captains. Ben Stokes and the coach Brendon McCullum.

But England lost six shots over 12 rounds, mostly to the world champions Test bowling well, rather than hit the ball cavalier.

Bairstow and Overton, however, countered in good style, although the Yorkshireman was missed on the 27th when the tempo driver was recalled Neil Wagner vote back for a checked drive.

It was a rare mistake by Bairstow, whose 136 shot has been the cornerstone of England’s successful chase in a five-goal and series win at Trent Bridge.

Overton, chosen before his twin brother Craig in place of the wounded James AndersonShows a series of offensive shots.

His 68-fifty balls have seven fours and sixs, with the 28-year-old following by towing and driving Wagner for six and four consecutive executions.

Brilliant Bairstow

Bairstow, 5th of 51 balls, finished 10th percentile of his 86 career checks by driving Boult in 15th out of 4 of 95 balls faced.

The 32-year-old son of the late England ping-pong goalkeeper David Bairstow sprinted towards the stands where his mother, Janet, was watching before stopping near the line to capture the applause of the crowd.

Before that, left-handed people Alex Lees was thrown off the fifth ball in England’s reply by a superb Boult leg cut before the left arm quickly cleared Ollie Pope and Zak Crawley.

Southee then had England’s ping pong player Joe Root was caught behind for the year to make England reel with a 21-4 score.

Although Stokes countered by driving Southee six, he was only able to handle Wagner in the middle when attempting a similar strike.

Three balls later, Wagner replaced the injured Kyle Jamieson, having a second hit in just his first game when Ben Foakes was heavily ranked for not being able to leave England with a score of 55-6.

New Zealand went on on May 225, with Mitchell turning his winless 78th night into a 109 inning.

In the process, he broke New Zealand’s 73-year-old record for most runs in a series against England, with Mitchell now having compiled 482 of these campaigns – 20 times more than Martin Donnelly managed at the time. in 1949.

Mitchell put in 120 with Tom Blundellwho was 55 years old before he was Matthew Potts.

But Mitchell completed her latest one hundred times in fairy fashion by upgrading Jack Leach too long for six.

Promote

Trying to repeat the shot, however, his 228 innings ended when a shot that missed the spinner was caught well by Stokes, who ran again from midgame.

Leach, whose Experimental career was decimated by illness, injury and bad selection, finished with an impressive 5-100 in 38.3 passes.