Day 3.
Bloody hell! 142-2 at lunch. Burns 76* Root 50*.
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Second Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day four of five):
New Zealand 375 (Latham 105) & 96-2
England 476 (Root 226, Burns 101, Pope 75; Wagner 5-124)
New Zealand trail by 5 runs
Scorecard
Captain Joe Root made a double century on day four of the second Test but England’s hopes of winning the match and drawing the series with New Zealand may be hampered by the weather.
Root’s painstaking 226 from 441 balls and 75 from Ollie Pope helped England to 476 and a first-innings lead of 101.
The Black Caps fell to 28-2 but Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor guided them to 96-2, trailing by only five runs.
Heavy rain is forecast to fall in Hamilton for much of the final day.
And on a pitch that is still good for batting, New Zealand will be confident of seeing out what play is possible from 21:30 GMT on Monday.
Oh my. Joe Denly’s dropped chance: