where not much went right for them with the bat, as patrick gearey reports. test cricket is unusual in sport and life in that you get time to think. on friday, rain and no play, sojoe read could carefully plan his innings. first bowl yesterday morning, new zealand gave him a lot more time to ponder. now, instead of watching rainfall, it would be wickets, courtesy of tim southee, he removed ollie pope, than dan lawrence. and poorjames bracey. in the first innings of his first test, gone before his first run. england fans watching a batting collapse, step back to normality. to hold it together, rory burns was going through an ordeal of an innings. dropped at slip, bopped on behalf of twice, and still he batted on, battled on. going through to a street fighting century. not enough to catch new zealand. the bad batsmen added to their leads. they were more than 150 ahead when ollie robinson thought he had kane williamson. no—one else did, really. still, he got the captain to check. as it turned out, the kiwi skipper