Live Report – England vs New Zealand, 1st Test, Lord’s, 1st day

Updates, analysis and colour from the opening day of the English Test summer at Lord’s

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11.15am: Equality street

England’s men’s team and women’s teams will be wearing anti-discrimination t-shirts throughout the summer, “designed to show their collective stance against any form of discrimination in cricket”. Joe Root led his players out in them for the “moment of unity” that preceded play on the first day at Lord’s.

11am: Play ball!

10.45am: Decisions, decisions

Callooh callay! New Zealand are batting first at Lord’s – could be interesting if they get 241. Slightly contrasting takes on the surface in the teams selected, certainly on the face of it. England have gone with four seamers, meaning no hard decision on splitting up James Anderson and Stuart Broad and no room for Jack Leach. Anderson in the process draws level with Alastair Cook as England’s most-capped Test cricketer. Ollie Robinson joins James Bracey in winning a debut, and it looks like Joe Root and maybe Dan Lawrence will share the spinning duties.

New Zealand, meanwhile, have picked their regular spinner, Mitchell Santner, despite his lack of red-ball cricket (even by Kiwi standards) and the fact he sustained a cut to his left index finger during last week’s intra-squad warm-up match. Colin De Grandhomme returns after a year out of the side, during which time he had ankle surgery, preferred to Daryl Mitchell; and Conway, the 29-year-old South Africa-born batter, will be trotting down the steps of the Lord’s pavilion in just a few moments’ time to open the batting alongside Tom Latham.

10.29am: Box fresh

10.15am: Lord’s, ladies and gentlemen…