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Matthew Potts to Devon Conway, Touch fuller and outside off. Matthew Potts to Henry Nicholls, NOT OUT! A big inswinger, fuller and slanting around middle and off. Matthew Potts to Henry Nicholls, Touch fuller and around off. Nicholls punches it to mid off. Conway flicks it past mid-wicket and it races away into the fence. Conway drops it to point.

A case of déjà vu for New Zealand on the opening day of the third dead-rubber cricket test against England at Headingley. Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell ...

Nicholls battled gamely to 19 off 99 balls in 137 minutes after coming to the crease at 62 for three. Young, on 20, was plumb with the first ball. One factor might be Patel's record at Headingley, albeit from a minute sample size. Their application was admirable, resisting the English attack and a number of failed reviews to stitch their resistance together. Henry Nicholls' dismissal summed up New Zealand's mojo to complete the middle session. Mitchell's strength was in disruption, constantly ensuring bowlers struggled for rhythm by hitting spin down the ground and anchoring his stance outside the crease.

New Zealand 225 for 5 (Mitchell 78*, Blundell 45*) vs England. It didn't end up being the day of ascendancy that New Zealand might have envisaged after ...

One notable absence for England was that of Stokes, whose ability to swing the old ball might have been particularly useful in the afternoon session. Latham left his first four balls, but after being drawn forward to block the fifth, he was caught perfectly in two minds by the coup de grace, a length ball on off stump that seamed just enough to take the edge and fly through to Joe Root at first slip. Broad, however, was now primed to return for his second spell, and once again, he struck the crucial blow with the final ball of his initial over. However, with his sidekick James Anderson already out of contention with an ankle niggle, Broad's importance as England's senior seamer was plain to see, right from an exemplary and successful first over that claimed the scalp of Latham for a duck. Blundell for his part reached the close on 45 not out from 108 balls - following directly on from his 96 at Lord's and his 106 at Trent Bridge, in another indomitably solid day's work. Facing up to the spin ofJack Leachin the final over of the afternoon session, Henry Nicholls launched into one of his few attacking strokes in a formless innings of 19 from 99 balls.

One of the most bizarre dismissals in cricket history was followed by an all-too-familiar counterattack by Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell as New Zealand ...

The first, against Nicholls on 4, was turned down on review as the slim possibility of inside edge could not be ruled out. New Zealand had plenty of work to do at 3-65 at lunch, but Devon Conway (26) had only got started when he dragged a seaming delivery from debutant Jamie Overton onto his stumps with a loose drive. They put on an unbroken sixth-wicket stand of 102 to be there at stumps, giving the tourists renewed hope of a consolation victory.

'Never seen anything like it': Poms in disbelief over wicket you have to see to believe.

That’s what it made me think, it’s a stupid game we play. It was very unlucky for Nicholls but very lucky for me.” England’s Jack Leach was left reflecting on a “silly game” after capturing the wicket of Henry Nicholls in bizarre fashion on the opening day of the third Test against New Zealand at Headingley.

England bagged a huge bonus in the last over before tea, Nicholls ridiculously unlucky to be dismissed.

The Surrey bowler had showed glimpses of pace and promise, landing an 88mph bouncer in his first spell and finding some swing off a fuller length. With cloudless, sunny skies overhead and barely a hint of grass underfoot, Williamson did not need to think twice. But neither umpire Marais Erasmus nor Stokes were sufficiently persuaded by the bowler's impassioned appeal. A partnership of 40 had begun to level things out until Nicholls was the victim of outrageous ill-fortune, hammering a lofted drive off Leach only for the ball to ricochet off the middle of non-striker Mitchell's bat and into the hands of mid-off. Broad followed his early dismissal of Tom Latham with the key scalp of returning captain Kane Williamson in the run-up to lunch and might have added to his haul had a couple of inside edges been a little closer to a diving Ben Foakes. In the middle of a busy week for Broad, who announced on the eve of the match that he is expecting his first child with fiancee Mollie King and celebrates his 36th birthday on day two, it was business as usual for the veteran seamer who took two top-order scalps.