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    "editor1": "<p>A fearless Harry Brook slammed an unbeaten century to give England the upper hand in the first Test against an error-strewn New Zealand on day two in Christchurch on Friday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-livescore\/scorecard\/13072000210\/england-tour-of-new-zealand-1\">SCORECARD<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>At stumps Brook was 132 not out with the visitors recovering from 71-4 to be 319-5, trailing the hosts by 29 runs and with five wickets in hand.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Captain Ben Stokes was unbeaten on 37 after being dropped by Tom Latham on 30 -- New Zealand&#39;s sixth dropped catch and the third by their skipper.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>After England&#39;s woeful start the 25-year-old Brook, in partnership with Ollie Pope, went on the attack.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Aided by luck from poor fielding and several edges sailing just wide or over slips, the pair belted 151 off 171 deliveries for the fifth wicket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Brook was dropped four times -- on 18, 41, 70 and 106 -- with the last detected by television replays after the umpire ruled the ball spilled by wicketkeeper Tom Blundell was byes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>England&#39;s batting onslaught came as the cloud cover which aided the New Zealand seamers in the first session gave way to blue skies.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>- Stunning Phillips -<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>New Zealand, 319-8 overnight, were all out for 348 and then reduced England to 45-3 by lunch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>When Ben Duckett went for 46 after lunch England were on the ropes at 71-4, but it would be 30 overs before New Zealand claimed their next wicket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Pope was on 77 with eight fours to his credit when he slashed at a wide delivery from Tim Southee and a diving Glenn Phillips grabbed a stunning one-handed catch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He threw his arms in the air in celebration, in stark contrast to when he put his head in his hands earlier after Devon Conway dropped Brook off his bowling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In the early cloudy conditions the New Zealand seamers were in their element with plenty of movement.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A Matt Henry delivery that nipped in trapped Zak Crawley lbw without scoring.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Debutant Nathan Smith followed with an angled delivery to Jacob Bethell which was edged to Blundell and England&#39;s debutant was gone for 10.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Four balls later, of which two were no balls, a similar angled delivery cramped Joe Root -- in his 150th Test -- for room and it deflected off his pads and on to the stumps for nought.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Duckett refused to be subdued and chanced his arm at anything loose.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He was dropped by Latham on 23 and survived two inside-edges before he pulled a rising Will O&#39;Rourke delivery to Conway waiting on the boundary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In the following over Brook was dropped for the first time and momentum began to shift in England&#39;s favour.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The partnership with Pope galloped along at five an over and Brook brought up is seventh Test century steering a Tim Southee delivery past backward point to the boundary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>New Zealand had added a further 29 runs to their overnight 319-8, the bulk of them by Phillips.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>He ended unbeaten on 58, his fifth half-century and the second-highest New Zealand score behind Kane Williamson&#39;s 93.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Brydon Carse finished with 4-64, the best figures for England, after taking both wickets to fall on the second morning.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b>Also Read: <\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/tagging\/highest-tax-paying-cricketers\">Highest tax paying cricketers<\/a><\/p><p>With his first ball of the day he had Southee caught on the boundary for 15, then ended the hosts&#39; innings by bowling O&#39;Rourke for a duck.<\/p>\r\n",
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