Joe Root makes more history but New Zealand close on levelling England series (opens in new tab)

Stand-in captain unbeaten on 75 after Jamieson haulWhat do you get if you pick three debutants, two more with just one cap each, a strike-bowler who is returning to Test cricket after two solid months of sending down four-over spells in India, and hand the captaincy to a guy who has spent the last four years with the job ?Throw in a seasoned opposition side like Tom Latham’s New Zealand and the answer, England have discovered this week, is the need to knock off a monstrous fourth-innings targ...