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LUNCH UPDATE: England Leads Against New Zealand Amid Rain Interruption<\/strong><\/p>\n As the rain starts to fall, players from both teams have taken a break, bringing Day 3 to a pause. Daryl Mitchell appeared to struggle as droplets landed in his eyes, prompting a decision from the umpires to send both teams off the field. <\/p>\n So far, England has shown impressive performance in this session, taking control of the Test match. They claimed four crucial wickets from New Zealand’s top order, leaving the visitors in a tough position. Having started the day at 378\/5, Joe Root showcased his batting skills, achieving his 36th Test century with a series of elegant shots before being dismissed by William O\u2019Rourke. <\/p>\n England later declared their innings at 427\/6, setting New Zealand a challenging target of 583 runs to chase. Unfortunately for the Kiwis, their chase got off to a rocky start when Chris Woakes managed to bowl Devon Conway in just the third over. As we take this lunch break, England firmly holds the advantage in the match.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LUNCH UPDATE: England Leads Against New Zealand Amid Rain Interruption As the rain starts to fall, players from both teams have taken a break, bringing Day 3 to a pause. Daryl Mitchell appeared to struggle as droplets landed in his eyes, prompting a decision from the umpires to send both teams off the field. So<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1319,395,2711,2712,2634,3122,3207,2637,2709,2636,3124],"class_list":{"0":"post-3453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ben-stokes","9":"tag-joe-root","10":"tag-kane-williamson","11":"tag-new-zealand-vs-england","12":"tag-nz-vs-eng","13":"tag-nz-vs-eng-2nd-test","14":"tag-nz-vs-eng-2nd-test-day-3","15":"tag-nz-vs-eng-live-blog","16":"tag-nz-vs-eng-live-score","17":"tag-nz-vs-eng-live-score-and-updates","18":"tag-nz-vs-eng-updates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}