Three late wickets have the Black Caps looking at almost certain defeat in the first test against England in Christchurch.
New Zealand were behind by 151 runs on the first innings after dismissing England for 499 including a couple more dropped catches along the way.
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Harry Brook eventually went for 171 caught behind by Tom Blundell off the bowling of Matt Henry while Ben Stokes was out for 80 and Gus Atkinson 48. -
The best of the Kiwi bowlers was Henry taking 4-84, Nathan Smith 3-141 and Tim Southee 2-85. Will O'Rourke was the other wicket taker.
At bat in their second innings New Zealand are 155-6 with Nathan Smith on one and Mitchell 31 with a lead of just four runs and limited batting to come.
Tom Latham was out early for just one, followed by Devon Conway who again struggled to make a significant score. He was out for eight.
Rachin Ravindra again looked comfortable but was guilty of a rash shot when he was on 24.
Kane Williamson did his best to take the game to a fourth day scoring 61 off 86 balls, his 57th half century before he was out lbw to Chris Woakes on an umpires call.
Out-of-form Tom Blundell then fell the next ball before Glenn Phillips survived the hat-trick and then looked positive and was out for 19 lbw, also on the umpires call in the last hour of play.