At 28/1 at the close of play, New Zealand, if they make the required runs, would complete the highest successful run chase in Test cricket at Hagley Oval, beating Australia's 201/3 in February 2016
Sri Lanka is currently playing New Zealand in the first Test match of the two-match series at Christchurch. There is an outside chance that the Lankan Lions play the ICC World Test Championship, as long as Australia win or draw their final Test against India and SL win the Test series by 2-0
While Australia currently trail India 2-1 and have failed to regain the Border-Gavaskar trophy they so dearly crave, they showed plenty of spirit winning their first Test match on Indian soil since 2017 when they registered a comprehensive nine-wicket triumph over their rivals in Indore.
Nortje, who featured in the first Test against West Indies, has been asked to rest as a precautionary measure following an assessment made by the South Africa medical team. Nortje picked 5/36 and 1/48 in the first game which the Proteas won by 87 runs.
Tim Southee will be at the helm of the side which is coming off the high of being the only third team in sports' history to win after following on, winning the second Test against England by one run to level the series after a 267-run loss in the first Test.
Stokes was picked up for Rs 16.25 crore by four-time IPL champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in the auction back in December last year. During England's last year's series with Pakistan, he had expressed his intentions to return to the competition after missing the 2022 edition of the league
Jamieson was originally supposed to make his return to the national side in the first pink-ball Test against England at Mount Maunganui, which started on February 16. England won the match by a massive 267 runs. A suspected recurrence of the injury ruled him out of the series and subsequent
It was yet another clinical team performance from England, who received valuable contributions from almost every member of their side to wrap up the win early on the fourth day of the Bay Oval contest
Harry Brook has also started his Test career with a bang. He has three tons and three fifties in his eight innings in five Tests and has scored 623 runs at an average of over 77.
The pair overtook their Australian rivals when Broad clean-bowled Devon Conway early in the final session of the ongoing first Test between England and New Zealand in Mount Maunganui