Glenn Phillips pulls off stunner amid New Zealand’s misfields to finish Brook-Pope stand in NZ vs ENG 1st Test Day 2

The wicket got here off the second ball of the 53rd over bowled by the retiring Tim Southee. Pope rocked again and tried to chop via backward level. Phillips dived full-length to his proper, caught the ball whereas being horizontal to the bottom and held on to it with aplomb after making affect. It ended a 151-run stand between Pope and Harry Brook that got here in simply 188 balls.

Here is a video of the catch:

The second, nonetheless, was an outlier in what was in any other case a wretched day within the subject for New Zealand. The Kiwis are identified to be fielding facet, with that side of the sport being central to their historic 3-0 whitewash of India on the latter’s dwelling of their final Test sequence.

Brook was dropped a whopping 4 instances, a lot in order that he remained unbeaten on 132 off 163 balls on the finish of the day. Captain Ben Stokes was on the different finish on 32 off 76 and the fifth wicket stand between the pair was price 97 runs off 130 balls on the finish of Day 2. Stokes himself was the beneficiary of a dropped catch, as was England opener Ben Duckett earlier within the day.

All of it meant that New Zealand have fallen effectively behind within the match regardless of scoring 348 batting first. England ended Day 2 on 319/5 and will probably be trying to put up as large a lead as doable on Day 3, with a declaration of any variety trying extremely unlikely.