New Zealand lost 6 wickets and took lead of only 4 runs, apart from Williamson, other batsmen flopped in front of England bowlers.

New Zealand vs England 1st Test Day 3 Highlights: By the end of the third day of the first Test match being played against England in Christchurch, the New Zealand cricket team has scored 155 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the second innings. With this New Zealand has taken a lead of 4 runs in the second innings. At the end of the day's play, Darim Mitchell remained unbeaten on 31 runs and Nathan Smith remained unbeaten on 1 run.

New Zealand had a bad start in the second innings and captain Tom Latham (3) and Devon Conway (8) were out and returned to the pavilion with a total score of 23 runs. After this, Kane Williamson along with Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell took the innings forward. Williamson scored his second consecutive half-century and scored 61 runs in 86 balls with the help of seven fours. Whereas Rachin Ravindra scored 24 runs in 38 balls.

Chris Woakes and Brayden Carse took 3-3 wickets for England in the second innings.

Earlier, England made a huge score of 499 in the first innings and took a huge lead of 151 runs. In which Brook batted brilliantly and scored 171 runs in 197 balls with the help of 15 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from this, captain Ben Stokes scored 80 runs in 146 balls, Ollie Pope scored 77 runs in 98 balls.

In the lower order, Gus Atkinson played a stormy innings of 48 runs in 36 balls and Braydon Carse played an unbeaten inning of 33 runs in 24 balls.