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LAWRENCE BOOTH’S 2ND TEST RATINGS

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ENGLAND

ALEX LEES 7

SHOWED signs of greater fluency in the second innings at Lord’s and took his mood into this game, with scores of 67 and 44. Now he needs to turn a start into a hundred.

ZAK CRAWLEY 1

TRENT BOULT was all over him, having him caught in the cordon for four and nought. His average is now 27 and tumbling fast. How much longer will England persist with him?

OLLIE POPE 8

WITH any luck, his first-innings 145 will be the start of the next phase of his Test career. Got a good ball in the second innings from Matt Henry when he was starting to settle in once more.

JONNY BAIRSTOW 10

WHO cares if he made only eight in the first innings? His 92-ball 136 yesterday afternoon instantly became

JOE ROOT 8.5

BATTED like a dream to make 176 in the first innings but could not repeat his Lord’s heroics in the second. Skipped about the place like a newborn lamb — he is loving life back in the ranks. one of England’s great Test knocks and ensured Bairstow will be around in this team for a while yet.

BEN STOKES 9

LED from the front by pummelling 46 off 33 on the third day, then added 75 not out from 70 while Bairstow went berserk on the fifth. Bowled a tireless 10-over spell, too. Easy lark, this Test captaincy.

BEN FOAKES 8

HIS best Test since a debut hundred against Sri Lanka nearly four years ago. Batted with class and ease, kept wicket immaculate­ly.

MATT POTTS 6

BACK down to earth in the first innings after his dreamy Lord’s debut but took the big wickets of Henry Nicholls and Tom Blundell in the second. Cost Foakes his wicket in the first innings with poor running.

JACK LEACH 5

SUFFERED a couple of dropped catches but concerns are

STUART BROAD 6

FIVE wickets in all but was unusually expensive: 3.84 runs an over was his highest economy rate for nearly three years. Effective with the bouncer on the final morning. growing over his lack of variety. Now averages 80 in the first innings of Tests. Moeen Ali and others are waiting in the wings.

JIMMY ANDERSON 8

TICKED off 650 Test wickets and had match figures of five for 82. Underused in the second innings.

NEW ZEALAND

Tom Latham 3, Will Young 7.5, Devon Conway 7, Henry Nicholls 4, Daryl Mitchell 9, Tom Blundell 8, Michael Bracewell 6, Tim Southee 2, Matt Henry 3, Kyle Jamieson 4, Trent Boult 8.

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