Tom Blundell played a record-breaking innings, New Zealand gave a befitting reply to England in ‘baseball’ style

Mount Maunganui: New Zealand scored 306 runs in the first innings on the second day of the Day Night Test on Friday against England (NZ vs ENG) on the basis of a century innings by Tom Blundell (138 runs). Blundell has become the first wicket-keeper batsman to score a century in Day Night Test. He scored these runs in 181 balls by hitting 19 fours and a six. This is his biggest innings in Tests. England had declared their first innings at 325 for nine on the opening day. At stumps, England were 79 for two in the second innings, taking a 98-run lead. Ollie Pope 14 and Stuart Broad are at the crease after scoring six runs. England lost the wickets of Ben Duckett (25 runs) and Jack Crowley (28 runs).

Fifty off Conway’s bat

On the second day in the morning, New Zealand started playing ahead of the score of 37 runs for three wickets. There was no hope of her getting close to England’s score but after finishing the first innings she was trailing England by just 19 runs. Devon Conway converted his 19-run knock on the night into a half-century and scored 77 runs. Stuart Broad dismissed night watchman Neil Wagner in the seventh over of the day to claim the 1000th wicket (together) of his long bowling partnership with James Anderson.

Broad (36 years old) and Anderson (40 years old) thus came close to surpassing the 1001 wickets taken by the Australian pair of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne in 104 Tests. Conway stayed at the crease for 229 minutes but was dismissed by Stokes, leaving the score at 158 ​​for six. With this, the team was 167 runs behind England’s first innings score. Conway shared a 75-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Blundell.

Lower order troubled England

After this, Blundell, playing responsibly, brought New Zealand closer to England’s first innings. New Zealand’s ninth wicket fell when Blundell, who came out to bat at number seven, was on 82 runs. Then number 11 batsman Blair Tickner landed at the crease. At the same time, Blundell started scoring runs fast and was the last man out after scoring 138 runs. He added 53 with Kuggeleijn (20) for the 8th wicket and 59 with Tickner (3 not out) for the last wicket. The first innings became a half-century partnership for the 10th wicket in the Day Night Test.

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