BIGGEST CHASE IN HISTORY NEEDED

ENGLAND are likely to need their highest run chase in a fourth innings at Lord’s to win this first Test. New Zealand’s overnight lead is 227, with six wickets to spare. The highest Lord’s fourth-innings chases... 344 — WEST INDIES v England in 1984 282 — ENGLAND v New Zealand in 2004 218 — ENGLAND v New Zealand in 1965 PS THIS is just the third instance of two batters being not out overnight in the 90s... n ENGLAND v West Indies, 1974: Geoffrey Boycott 91*, Dennis

Amiss 92* n PAKISTAN v India, 1983: Mudassar Nazar 92*, Javed Miandad 96* n NEW ZEALAND v England, today: Daryl Mitchell 97*, Tom

Blundell 90*.