England v New Zealand: third men’s cricket Test, day four – live
Updates from Trent Bridge, play starts 11am BST Day three report | Read the Spin | Mail James39th over: New Zealand 125-3 (Ravindra 62, Mitchell 29) Archer from the Stuart Broad End, he’s up to the mid to high eighties on the speed gun and gets a nasty ball to lift and smash Mitchell on the hand. The batter wrings it out and briefly resembles Ali G as he does so. Mitchell drops into the leg side and gets off strike. Ravindra clips off his hip to make it two singles off the over.How’s everyone doing out there? England need wickets… Continue reading...
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England v New Zealand: third men’s cricket Test, day four – live
🏏 Updates from Trent Bridge, play starts 11am BST
🏏 Day three report | Read the Spin | Mail James
LIVE Updated 2m ago
James Wallace at Trent Bridge (now) and Tanya Aldred (later)
Key events
25 Jun 2026Third Test Match, Trent Bridge
| Team name | Score |
|---|---|
| England | 354 all out (88.2 overs) |
| New Zealand | 438 & 122 - 3 (36.0 overs) |
| View full scorecard |
Third Test Match, Trent Bridge
Daryl Mitchell of New Zealand defends the first ball of the day. Photograph: Andy Kearns/Getty Images
Daryl Mitchell of New Zealand defends the first ball of the day. Photograph: Andy Kearns/Getty Images
Key events
36th over: New Zealand 122-3 (Ravindra 60, Mitchell 28) Stokes beats Daryl Mitchell with a full ball outside off stump that jags away late. Ooosht! That kept low! A ball of similar length then squirts a few inches off the ground after pitching, we might well see some more misbehaviour from this wicket today. Mitchell collects two runs through the covers and that’s the first over. Here comes Jofra Archer.
Ben Stokes is going to start with the ball for England, cometh the BIG FIRST HOUR…
The players head out to the middle the the strains of Jerusalem. No hangovers out there… you’d hope (!) A fair few bleary eyed folk shuffling around the ground though, which made me feel a lot better about myself.
Andy Bull laments England’s current situation:
Someone’s about to switch the music off, leaving Rob Key without a chair to sit on\ \ Read more
Simon Burnton dipped his quill on Kiwi super sub Zak Foulkes:
Supersub Foulkes key to New Zealand’s day three turnaround against England\ \ Read more
We’ve got about five minutes until the start of play, just enough time to catch up on yesterday’s action. It was New Zealand’s day, that’s for sure:
Ravindra puts New Zealand in dominant position after England fail to take advantage\ \ Read more
Rachin Ravindra looked in ominously good form yesterday, particularly at the start of his innings where he hit some pristine strokes to wrestle any momentum back from England.
Hello and welcome to day four of the deciding Test between England and New Zealand from Trent Bridge. It’s balmy and bright, the players are on the outfield going through their motions. I’m in the press box going through my emotions. Am I late starting this blog because I’m a wee bit dusty this morning. I couldn’t possible comment… but any typos are entirely deliberate, it’s all part of the process.
New Zealand lead by 204 runs with seven second innings wickets in hand.
It’s been said before but… BIG FIRST HOUR this morning*.
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*For all of us
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