Live updates from second day’s play at the Bay OvalAustralia v
Pakistan – live coverage of the first Test!Feel free to email Tanya or tweet @tjaldred 5.34am GMT
50th over:
New Zealand 144-4 (Nicholls 26, Watling 6) And for no reason other than why the heck not, Joe Root bowls the final over of the day. Watling rather unkindly takes a single from the first ball, leaving the battered and bruised Nicholls to play out four balls, before he too scampers a single. And that’s that - the players walk off towards their baths/beers after another intriguing day. 5.30am GMT
50th over: New Zealand 142-4 (Nicholls 25, Watling 5) Nicholls is fit to continue, and Archer follows up immediately with another short ball, then another rapid lifter that Buttler takes high above his head behind the stumps, then another which Nicholls defends on tip-toes with high gloves. Well played.