Tim Southee, Rory Burns dominate the hard-fought fourth day

Having come into this Check as the Zero. 2-ranked side, and getting ready to contest the inaugural Environment Test Championship final in the future this month, it maybe shouldn't come as a surprise to discover that New Zealand have manipulated this game. Were it not for the fact that the entire third evening was lost to rainfall, they would be well on the way to earning at Lord's for just the next time 18 attempts.

Tim Southee bowled with skill and guile to lay claim a six-wicket haul - the next time he previously done so at this ground - and it took a doughty century from Rory Burns to keep England clinging on by their fingertips.

The visitors even now claimed a 103-run lead on first innings, but Burns' defiance and a couple of fighting stands with the lower order had kept them in the field until tea. Possessed Burns been stumped off Mitchell Santner on 77, England would have been 193 for 7 and New Zealand might have had an authentic window of opportunity.

As it was, New Zealand adopted a circumspect method of their second innings. Devon Conway required his meet tally to 223 works - the virtually all by an opener on Evaluation debut - before staying bowled off an internal border by Ollie Robinson, who as well taken away Kane Williamson lbw for 1. With 62 works being have scored from 30 overs, the chances of either side having the capacity to set up the overall game on time five receded.

Robinson's interventions followed a good essential 42 with the bat, and kept him best found in Conway's slipstream for most-impressive debutant. He became the initial bowler in the meet to find a approach through Conway, and twice pinned Williamson before his stumps with consecutive balls - the primary lbw appeal was given, limited to technology to detect an inside edge; the second wasn't, but England finally found accomplishment with a review, having previously burned two of their three.

England's efforts in which to stay the game were worth compliment, although they have already been outplayed on two days out of 3. Burns produced a commonly gritty knock for his third Test century, and first since November 2019, but a callow batting line-up struggled to deal with the threat of Southee and Kyle Jamieson, with three ducks and a 2 registered among the top seven.

After Friday's washout, and with England even now only two down within their initially innings, this game needed a powder keg positioning under it. Jamieson gave New Zealand an ideal start, taking away Joe Root with the primary ball of your day - England's captain going for walks back again with the clock still exhibiting 10.59am - and Southee did his better to decrease the England innings to rubble with three wickets in as much overs. But Burns and Robinson dug in for a 63-manage stand to narrow the deficit and take time from the day.

Southee accomplished his second Lord's five-for by detatching Robinson with the next new ball and England's position was still a parlous one, as Tag Wood and Stuart Broad fell cheaply. Burns, who was simply also dropped at slide off Neil Wagner on 88, was still nine runs brief of his hundred when joined up with in the middle by James Anderson, but he pilfered seven runs within the next over - and Anderson survived two dot balls from Jamieson - before steering Wagner to third person to attain the landmark.

Burns scored just 13 runs through the morning session, positioning a cost on his wicket seeing as his team-mates came and went, and had added 32 from 127 balls until that the ninth wicket fell. But Burns lower loose throughout a 52-manage stand with Anderson, spending Jamieson for three fours within an over and launching Wagner into the Mound Stand for his first six in Check cricket. He was finally last gentleman out, feathering Southee to BJ Watling.

That passage further delayed New Zealand's progress, after hopes of being in a position to push for victory had been raised by a rip-roaring morning where they claimed four England wickets in bit more than one hour. Any thoughts Root acquired of wanting to guide his workforce towards parity had been banished by Jamieson's starting delivery, which pranced and straightened from a duration, clipping the outside border to be scooped low by Ross Taylor initially slip.

Ollie Pope, a member of family veteran of 18 Assessments, twice edged Jamieson for fours huge of the cordon but stroked three more genuine boundaries in his 22, and then be pinned before his stumps by Southee - though it needed the assistance of DRS after Michael Gough turned down the original appeal. Dan Lawrence, playing his first Test in the home, then edged his second ball to slide and the debutant James Bracey was castled for a duck as England lost 3 for 0 in 21 balls.

Robinson needed an assessment to survive until lunch time after being given out by Gough caught in short leg found in Mitchell Santner's exploratory above, as England went in six down but still short of the follow-on focus on. Santner then must have removed Burns following the interval, limited to Watling to fail to gather the ball. Ultimately the partnership was shattered by Southee, as Robinson chosen long leg trying to defend myself against a bouncer - however, not before he possessed organized New Zealand for nearly two hours.