Tom Blundell reacts after leaving one © Getty Images
Lunch New Zealand 431 and 98 for 0 (Blundell 59*, Latham 36*) lead Pakistan 239 by 290 runs
Tom Blundell and Tom Latham stretched New Zealand’s lead to 290 during a wicketless first session on day four, leaving New Zealand with the question of when to declare and with what sort of lead. While they will be pleased with their openers’ second-innings displays, they will also be a little concerned over how little help the Bay Oval surface offered the Pakistan bowlers, who looked tidy but far from penetrative.
This pitch has so far played like the typical New Zealand strip over the last six years or so: a green seamer that has flattened out progressively with little sign of deterioration.
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Karthik Krishnaswamy is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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