ENG vs NZ: New Zealand tightened the screws on the second day… Glenn Phillips’ century, then England on the backfoot due to the attack of the bowlers.

New Delhi. The second day of the second Test match between England and New Zealand being played at Kennington Oval was also completely in the name of the guests. On the second day of the match, while New Zealand made a strong score in the morning session thanks to Glenn Phillips’ first Test century, in the remaining two sessions the Kiwi bowlers strengthened their hold on the match by taking 6 wickets of England. The play was interrupted for some time in the last session due to bad light and rain, but New Zealand left no stone unturned to put England on the back foot. By the end of the second day’s play, England had scored 222 runs after losing 6 wickets in their first innings and were still 169 runs behind New Zealand’s score.

Glenn Phillips’ maiden test century
The morning of the second day of the match was very wonderful for New Zealand. Middle order batsman Glenn Phillips scored the first century of his Test career. Thanks to his excellent century, the New Zealand team was successful in reaching very close to the 400-run mark in the first innings and laid a strong foundation to take the lead in the match.

England did bad work after a good start
The England team, which came to play its first innings, got a good start, but after getting set, their batsmen started losing wickets. Opener Ben Duckett played a brilliant inning of 36 runs in 25 balls, but he was run out on a throw by Nathan Smith. After this, Emilio Gay continued his excellent form and played a half-century of 53 runs in 114 balls.

Joe Root missed historical records
Joe Root (46 runs) looked in good touch, but he missed scoring a half-century. With this, he remained just 2 runs away from his historical record of completing 14,000 runs in Test cricket. It is expected that he will touch this figure in the next innings of the match. Jacob Bethel (9), Harry Brook (24) and James Reeve (24) could not take advantage of the good start. Till the end of the second day’s play, Jordan Cox remained at the crease after scoring 22 runs and Joffra Archer faced 11 balls and scored 0 runs.

Deadly bowling of Matt Henry and O’Rourke
New Zealand’s bowlers bowled tightly and gave shocks to England at regular intervals. Henry brought New Zealand its biggest successes. He broke the back of England by getting both dangerous looking Joe Root and Harry Brook out LBW. So far he has taken 2 wickets for 57 runs in 16 overs. William O’Rourke also bowled brilliantly and sent set batsman Emilio Gay and wicketkeeper James Reeve to the pavilion. So far he has taken 2 wickets for 61 runs in 17 overs. Smith also bowled economically, giving only 36 runs in 14 overs and taking 1 wicket.

What will be New Zealand’s strategy on the third day?
On the morning of the third day, New Zealand will be eyeing to wrap up England’s innings as soon as possible by taking the remaining 4 wickets, so that they can take a big and decisive lead on the basis of the first innings. At the same time, England’s hopes will rest on Jordan Cox and the tail-enders to get the team out of trouble.