ENG 116/7 (36 ov, Stuart Broad 4*, Ben Foakes 6*, Tim Southee 2/40)
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6.55pm: That’s it from us for tonight. Remember, no early starts in Tests in the UK, so we’ll start at 11am local time on Day 2 despite losing overs tonight. Thanks for your company and see you tomorrow.
Matthew Potts is speaking to Sky: “It was a great debut. Nice to get some wickets early on to settle the nerve. We bowled aggressively and looked to take wickets. It’s a massive thing. A lot of my success is down to my family and I’m over the moon with it. Little bit of a tear in the eye early on this morning. It’s best to get the nerves out of the body really early. The first ball was actually fine, it was the second ball where I bowled a half-tracker where I was like ‘I’m not sure I’m in here’. [Williamson] Honestly, it was just trying to bowl it hard on a nice line with a bit of wobble on the seam. [Lord’s] It started two weeks ago when Durham had a first-class game here. I’ve translated that into my prep, speaking to Jimmy and Broady about the different lines, different lengths from each end. [Lengths] The main thing we’ve looked at is being aggressive and trying to take wicket. We assessed the lengths well early on. It helps to have the start we did. That allowed us to put it up there. [Leg] It was just a bit of cramp. The nerves took the better of me. They’re fine now, it’s just a case of looking after them tonight.”
6.30pm: And that will be that on a harum-scarum day of Test cricket. 248 runs, 17 wickets… it’s been lively! England were brilliant with the new ball with the old stagers, Anderson and Broad, rolling back the years before the debutant Matthew Potts announced himself as an international cricketer with four wickets, including the key wicket of Kane Williamson. They started well with the bat, too, with Crawley and Lees adding 59 for the first wicket – but New Zealand fought back in style, bringing about a dramatic collapse of 7 for 41 (and 5 for 8 at one stage). Kyle Jamieson started it, but the wickets were shared across the whole seam-bowling unit as England imploded.
Simon: “When was the last time 17 wickets fell on day 1 at Lord’s? And what’s the record?” — The answer to both is the 2019 England vs Ireland Test: 20 wickets on Day 1.
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