New Zealand vs England, 1st Test - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: England tour of New Zealand, 2018 Venue: Eden Park, Auckland Date & Time: Mar 22-Mar 26, 02:00 PM LOCAL

Boult picked up nine wickets in the game. © Getty

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Here are the post-match quotes -

Neil Wagner: Trying to think not too much about it. Very special feeling. Had to take it deep. Tried to get the game into the night under lights. The ball wasn't doing too much. But the boys did well. The catches were brilliant today. Catches win matches, I suppose. We've done a lot of practice catching pink balls under lights. I'd love to thank the crowd. There are a lot of variables with the pink ball, but we are accustomed to it by now. I summon my strength for the team and the country, and I'm happy that we have come out victorious today. We'd like to summon our energy with a good night's rest and get back to business (practice) tomorrow.

Trent Boult (Man of the Match): Obviously a great finish to the match. I guess you feel great when we got the ball moving around like the way we did. We know how important it is to get twenty wickets and the way the guys stuck around and got those wickets is what makes it all the more significant. The wicket was definitely slower today than I thought and the ball didn't do as much. At different times the ball moves around differently and if can see it consistently moving around from a bowling point of view it surely helps. To see a couple bounce more than expected definitely got my tail up. To get the job done with a bit of time surely feels good.

Joe Root: We weren't good enough on day one, as simple as that. It's never getting back into Test matches after a start like that; we have to learn some lessons quickly. It is difficult to single anything out, more than anything it is just that we have to adapt quicker. The character of the dressing room and the efforts today was a great example of the guy's determination and their desire to play for the country. [On his finger] It is good and should be fine for Christchurch. We need to make sure that we are better, we have a couple of days of practice as we go into it and need to make the most of it.

Kane Williamson: It was a fantastic performance from us. If we go back to that first innings we were very good in the lengths we bowled. But we were also lucky to finsd the edges on all those occasions. Trent was fantastic with the lengths he bowled and so was Tim. We knew we had to work hard against a quality English attack and that showed in the second innings. They fought very hard and they showed how tough an opponent they are when they batted in the second innings. You try and make the best call you can at the toss but you need to make the most of the opportunity. We were very good in executing things in that department. To see their determination with the bat, despite it be slow moving was a superb effort because the bowling was really good. To get the score we wanted on the board was a just what we were asking for. Henry Nicholls was just outstanding. His commitment to his plan, the way he thought through and executed it was just world class.

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Hello and welcome to the live blog of the fifth and final day of the first Test between New Zealand and England. The equation is pretty simple. New Zealand need seven wickets. England need to bat out the day. The visitors lost Joe Root on the last ball of the day and now have to face a stern test of character. New Zealand favourite to take this one.