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11.45am: Conway out in front
A clip off the pads for two and Devon Conway moved to the highest score by a Test debutant in England - Ranjitsinhji, WG Grace, Peter May and Sourav Ganguly the next four names on the list. Fair effort this.
11.35am: Bowling dry? Nice try
Well, England might have been hoping to "control the game, control the scoring", as Wood put it - but they've not had much success so far, with Conway and Nicholls ticking along at roughly a run a minute during the first half an hour or so. Anderson delivered a maiden but then conceded driven boundaries in consecutive overs to Conway, while Broad and Joe Root seemingly couldn't decide on their plan after another four went down to third man: one fielder went out of the cordon, then was brought halfway in; second slip was moved to midwicket and back again. In the end, not much changed.
Ollie Robinson has now replaced Anderson from the Nursery End, the second new ball still only 14 overs old. But NZ's fourth-wicket pair currently have the sun on their backs and a gentle breeze in their sails.
11.15am: Fifty for Nicholls
A crisp punch down the ground off Broad, the ball rolling gently up the slope towards the pavilion, takes Nicholls to a compact half-century. He has played his part to perfection so far, continuing a run of fine form that began with a career-best 174 versus West Indies in December.
Conway, meanwhile, has pinged a couple of sumptuous drives through the covers off Anderson, and is closing in on the highest score by a Test debutant in England - only WG and Ranji above him, as things stand.
NZ straight back up to cruising speed this morning.
11.05am: You Have to Answer
Henry Nicholls: Kohli or Babar's cover drive?
Conway has survived a maiden from James Anderson, starting from the Nursery End again this morning. Stuart Broad is back in harness, too. Henry Nicholls, meanwhile, resumes in sight of a half-century - both of England's senior seamers will be hoping to ask questions of him, though nothing so fiendish as "Kohli or Babar", you'd imagine.
10.55am: Back to Plan A... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
England's Mark Wood, one of those fast bowlers who's got to strap on the spikes again today, has been speaking before play about the experience of bowling to Devon Conway - the two had a decent scrap, with Wood upping the pace and hitting Conway a couple of times, only for the batter to come through unscathed.
"He played some amazing shots, to play the way he did on debut was outstanding. Was a thorn in my side all day, I never felt we were on top of him. Hopefully he's a little bit tired today, or more tired than we are and we can get him early on. We've got plans in the dressing room, as we do for every batsman, Plan A, Plan B. But unfortunately Plan A, B, C, D and E didn't quite work yesterday, so maybe start on Plan A again and see if that works."
Wood admitted it was "a tough day overall", but said England would be aiming to control the scoring and continue to chip away. Of his own bowling, which saw the speed gun up at 96mph, he suggested that the number in the wickets column was more important.
"If we can get a couple of quick wickets this morning, the whole complexion of the match changes - they could easily have been 300-320 [yesterday] with Lord's being fast-scoring. It was very difficult [to find] the [right] length on this wicket. At Lord's we've talked about being fuller and trying to hit the knee roll, but actually the fuller length seemed to bring Conway [into it], some of his drives were beautiful. So this morning, drag that length back, still hitting the top of the stumps, I think that'll be key.
"When it's clicking you certainly feel it - but I'd rather bowl slower and get five wickets. The key today is not how quickly I bowl but how well I bowl, can I get some wickets and get us back in the game. I'm giving it everything I've got, as the speed gun suggests. If I keep giving it my all, hopefully I'll get the rewards today.
10.35am: Conway Part Deux
Devon Conway: It'll take a few days for debut ton to sink in
Hello, and good morning. Hope you bounced out of bed like a man sitting on 136 not out overnight... rather than a fast bowler who's shortly got to pull their boots on and go again. If a certain Danish brewer made Test debuts, they'd still have had to pull out all the stops for Devon Conway. A century in whites for the Black Caps, almost four years after setting off on the road from Gauteng to Wellington - Conway admitted last night it was more than he could ever had dreamed of. But his fun's not over yet, and England's footsore seamers are going to have to have another crack, with New Zealand already well placed and looking for a first-innings position from which they can dictate the game.
Alan Gardner is a deputy editor at ESPNcricinfo. @alanroderick
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