By the end of the second day's play in the second Test being played in Wellington, England had scored 378 runs at the loss of 5 wickets. With this, England has taken a lead of 533 runs. Joe Root is unbeaten on 73 runs and Ben Stokes is unbeaten on 35 runs. Earlier, New Zealand was all out for 125 runs. Gus Attinckson and Brydon Case took 4-4 wickets in the first innings for England.
Joe Root remained unbeaten on 73 runs and Ben Stokes on 35 runs.
New Zealand lost the last 5 wickets for 39 runs on the second day The Kiwi team, playing ahead of the score of 86/5 on the first day, was able to add only 39 runs on the second day. Kane Williamson played the biggest innings for the team and scored 37 runs with the help of 3 fours.
Attinckson became the 14th England player to take a hat-trick Gus Attinckson has become the 14th player to take a hat-trick in Tests for England. He completed his hat-trick by dismissing Nathan Smith, Matt Henry and Tim Southee. The English pacer took four wickets including a hat-trick in the innings.
This was the first hat-trick in Test cricket in almost three years. Earlier, the last hat-trick in Test cricket was taken in 2021, which was completed by South Africa's star spinner Keshav Maharaj against West Indies.
Gus Attinckson took four wickets in the innings including a hat-trick.
Four England players scored half-centuries in the second innings Four players scored half-centuries for England in the second innings. Opener Ben Duckett scored 92 runs in 112 balls followed by Jacob Bethwell who scored 96 runs in 118 balls. Apart from these, Harrybook scored 55 runs on 61 balls. Whereas Joe Root is unbeaten after scoring 73 runs on 106 balls.
Jacob Bethwell scored 96 and Ben Duckett scored 92 runs.
England is ahead 1-0 in the series It is noteworthy that England is ahead 1-0 in the three-match Test series. In the first test of the series played at Hagley Oval, the English team won against New Zealand by 8 wickets. Fast bowler Brayden Carse, who performed brilliantly for England in the match, was awarded the title of Player of the Match. Kars took a total of 10 wickets in the match.
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