New Zealand has got a target of 254 runs to win in Lord’s Test. After taking a slight lead of 27 runs in the first innings, England was all out for 226 runs in the second innings. Emilio Gay scored 57 runs with a half-century on his Test debut, while Ollie Robinson’s innings of 29 runs helped England post a strong score on the difficult Lord’s pitch.
On the first day of Lord’s Test, England’s first innings was reduced to 140 runs. By the end of the first day’s play, the New Zealand team had lost 6 wickets for 61 runs. The Kiwi team increased its score on the second day and the entire team was all out for 113 runs. In this way the British got a lead of 27 runs in the first innings.
In the second innings, Ben Duckett and Emilio Gay gave a good start to England and added 52 runs for the first wicket. Duckett scored 33 runs, while Emilio scored 57 runs. At one time England had scored 126 runs at the loss of only 2 wickets, but then England lost 4 wickets within one run. The Kiwi team made a comeback, but Jamie Smith’s inning of 39 runs and then Ollie Robinson’s fighting innings took England to the score of 226.
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New Zealand will create history
New Zealand has got the target of 254 runs in the fourth innings. Let us tell you that more than 300 targets have been chased only once in history at Lord’s ground, when in the year 1984, West Indies chased 342 runs in the fourth innings against England. Apart from that, only three times the target of more than 250 runs has been chased here. In such a situation, it will be very difficult for New Zealand to achieve this target.
Whereas in the history of Test cricket, New Zealand has been able to defeat England only once at Lord’s. This victory of the Kiwi team came in the year 1999, but after that for 27 years New Zealand has not got victory over England at Lord’s ground.
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