12.42pm: Jack Leach is on his feet in the England dressing room as his concussion replacement takes his first Test wicket. What a crazy morning session: 12.3 overs, 49 runs and six wickets. Broad's third over of the day completely changed the game, featuring three wickets in as many balls: Mitchell edging behind, de Grandhomme run out by Pope at fourth slip and Jamieson losing his off stump. Blundell was trapped in front for 96 as England's seamers thrived with the new ball and Parkinson's first wicket means that they need 277 in eight sessions...

Shiva Jayaraman: "A wicket fell every 13.71 runs on an average in this Test before the 195-run partnership between Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell for New Zealand's fifth wicket in their second innings. The stand outscored the match average (until the beginning of the partnership) by a multiple of 14.22. In the entire Test history, only five other second-innings stands have outscored the match average before the partnership by a bigger multiple. Incidentally, England were on the receiving end of the most recent of those five instances, in Barbados in 2019, when Shane Dowrich and Jason Holder added 295 for West Indies' seventh wicket after the match had seen a wicket fall every 18.6 runs on an average before that partnership."

Jeffo: "What should we expect when half the batters have just returned from T20. The art of batting has gone!" -- Mitchell spent two months at the IPL with Rajasthan, arrived in England last week and made a brilliant hundred. Better excuses required!

Andrew Miller points out that England chased exactly 277 against Pakistan two years ago - though they will have to do so without Jos Buttler's cool head this time around. They also declined the opportunity to chase 273 in this very Test last summer but barring a huge dump of rain, the draw won't be on the table this time.

Just one slip.