Swann puts New Zealand in a spin
Graeme Swann took four wickets as New Zealand collapsed on the third
day of the second and final Test at Headingley on Sunday. New Zealand's
latest batting failure saw them dismissed for 174 on the stroke of tea
and that left them 180 runs behind England's first innings 354.
Off-spinner Swann took four for 42 in nine overs after fast bowler
Steven Finn had rocked the top order on his way to three for 36.
But although England captain Alastair Cook was in a position to
enforce the follow-on -- New Zealand needed to reach 205 and be within
150, rather than 200, of the hosts' first innings following Friday's
first day washout to be certain of avoiding it --- he decided to bat
again.
New Zealand had been shot out for just 68 in their second innings
during a crushing 170-run defeat in the first match of this two-Test
series at Lord's last week.
But they made almost as many for the first wicket Sunday until Peter
Fulton, trying to turn Finn legside, got a leading edge and was caught
and bowled by the fast bowler for 28 to leave New Zealand 55 for one.
Then a superb over to Hamish Rutherford, the other opening batsman, saw
Finn beat the left-hander three times in a row outside off-stump.
Rutherford did not heed the warnings and a loose drive saw him edge Finn
to Ian Bell in the gully for 27.
Finn had taken took two wickets for one run in 16 balls to leave New
Zealand 62 for two at lunch.
Ross Taylor, nought not out at lunch, fell for six after playing on
to a fast Finn delivery that cramped him for room as he tried to defend
off the backfoot.
And 72 for three became 79 for four when Swann, who returned to Test
cricket at Lord's following an elbow injury, struck with his sixth
delivery on Sunday.
He bowled Dean Brownlie for two, a sharp off-break beating the
batsman between bat and pad. Martin Guptill managed just one before he
fell in similar fashion to Brownlie, with Swann, turning the ball in the
footmarks created by New Zealand's left-arm seamers.
Two balls later Kane Williamson (13) was lbw to Swann on an England
review.
Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum and Tim Southee staunched the
flow of wickets with a seventh-wicket stand of 37 in 41 balls.
But Stuart Broad, whose Test-best seven for 44 was key to New
Zealand's second innings slump at Lord's, accounted for both batsmen.
New Zealand were 122 for nine before a last-wicket stand of 52
between Neil Wagner (27) and Trent Boult, who hit Swann for three sixes
in his 24 not out, boosted the total.
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SCORECARD
England 1st Innings (overnight: 337-7)
A. Cook c Brownlie b Bracewel l34
N. Compton c Brownlie b Southee 01
J. Trott c McCullum b Wagner 28
I. Bell c McCullum b Williamson 30
J. Root c McCullum b Boult 104
J. Bairstow c McCullum b Boult 64
M. Prior c Taylor b Southee 39
S. Broad c McCullum b Boult 00
G. Swann not out 26
S. Finn b Boult 06
J. Anderson c and b Boult 00
Extras (b9, lb7, w5, nb1) 22
Total (all out, 99 overs, 449 mins) 354
Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Compton), 2-67 (Trott), 3-67 (Cook)
4-146 (Bell), 5-270 (Root), 6-279 (Bairstow)
7-286 (Broad), 8-345 (Prior), 9-354 (Finn)
10-354 (Anderson)
Bowling: Boult 22-4-57-5 (2w)
Southee 26-6-76-2 (2w)
Wagner 23-4-73-1 (1nb, 1w)
Bracewell 19-3-83-1
Williamson 9-0-49-1
New Zealand 1st Innings
P Fulton c and b Finn 28
H. Rutherford c Bell b Finn 27
K. Williamson lbw b Swann 13
R. Taylor b Finn 06
D. Brownlie b Swann 02
M. Guptill b Swann 01
B. McCullum c Prior b Broad 20
T. Southee lbw b Broad 19
D. Bracewell c Bell b Swann 01
N. Wagner b Anderson 27
T. Boult not out 24
Extras (lb5, w1) 06
Total (all out, 43.4 overs, 211 mins) 174
Fall of wickets: 1-55 (Fulton), 2-62 (Rutherford), 3-72 (Taylor)
4-79 (Brownlie), 5-81 (Guptill), 6-82 (Williamson)
7-119 (Southee), 8-122 (Bracewell), 9-122 (McCullum)
10-174 (Wagner)
Bowling: Anderson 7.4-2-34-1
Broad 15-2-57-2 (1w)
Finn 12-3-36-3
Swann 9-1-42-4
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