England set 296 for victory after Blundell 88*

New Zealand set England an objective of 296 to win the Headingley Test after Tom Blundell assisted the guests with expanding their lead with an unfaltering 88*. While he was engaged with one more century stand with Daryl Mitchell, England hit at customary stretches with Jack Leach wiping up the tail to get done with another five-wicket pull, which gave him 10 for the Test match. After a calm beginning to the meeting, both Blundell and Mitchell went past their particular fifties and wound up raising more than 100 for the fourth time in the series. Britain seemed as though they were in for more wretchedness thinking about how the pair had kept on torturing them all through the series yet Matty Potts gave them the truly necessary advancement before long. Having almost taken out Blundell before in the over, Potts figured out how to dispose of Mitchell in the wake of catching him leg-before-wicket. That wicket gave England the initial they required. Michael Bracewell crushed Leach for a six and attempted to rehash the accomplishment, just to confuse one to profound midwicket and Tim Southee couldn't give the necessary firecrackers. In the wake of tidying up Southee, Leach additionally eliminated Neil Wagner in the equivalent over to mollify any apprehensions of New Zealand challenging them. With wickets falling at the opposite end, Blundell had no other decision except for to open up. Furthermore, he did that flawlessly as the wicketkeeper-batsman continued to track down the limit. Subsequent to bringing several limits off Potts, he took on the bowler to add two more in his following over including an impeccably executed scoop shot that took him nearer to the nineties. Be that as it may, Trent Boult couldn't balance in that frame of mind for Blundell to get to one more hundred as Leach penetrated through his safeguards too to leave the set-batsman abandoned. Brief scores: New Zealand329 & 326 (Tom Blundell 88*, Tom Latham 76; Jack Leach 5/66, Matty Potts 3/66) lead England 360 by295 runs