New Zealand’s Mitchell and Blundell ease first Test away from England

• Day two: New Zealand 132 & 236-4; England 141
• Bowlers toil in vain as pair both close on centuries

You have to go back to 1888, the days of WG Grace and the summer when Jack the Ripper was terrorising London’s East End, for the only two-day Test match at Lord’s. This is the 139th Test at the ground since Percy McDonnell’s Australians beat England by 61 runs and for a good while it looked like a second quickfire affair was in the offing.

England’s first innings had fizzled away in the morning, albeit with just enough tail-end fiddling to turn 116 for seven into 141 all out and a lead of nine runs.

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