Wickets sandwich New Zealand's stoic batting in morning session

It was a beautiful set up from Nathan Lyon. The first one kicked up, second went on straight, third was short, fourth was an explosion, and the fifth spun into the pads and was perhaps one of the poorer balls he'd bowled all morning. But Tom Blundell opened up to make himself some room to whip it through square leg and ended up with an inside edge that knocked the stumps over. It was how Australia broke the overnight 63-run stand between Blundell and Tom Latham that kept Australia at bay in the final session yesterday.

Australia then picked up two more in the opening session as New Zealand went into Lunch at 141 for 3