Zakary Foulkes is the new man in and he is off the mark with a four as he gets low and laps the ball to fine leg for a four!
Foulkes and Bracewell then take three singles as 8 runs and a wicket come off it.
Kuldeep is back in the attack and he has Hay struck in the middle on the pads in an attempted sweep, big shout for LBW. Umpire raises the finger. Hay reviews and loses it as ball tracking shows wickets hitting. Hay is out cheaply.
New Zealand lose their third wicket in three overs.
Mitchell Hay is the new man in and he is tentative to begin with, playing three dots.
Hay then gets off the mark with a flick to backward square leg, he gets a couple.
Hay then digs out the yorker for a dot as a wicket and 2 runs come off it.
Siraj continues, Mitchell tries to go big one, only to miscue and the ball flies off the top edge. Kuldeep runs in from the deep and takes a catch on the on side. Mitchell is out for 137.
Kiwi captain Doug Bracewell is the new man in and after dot, he pulls the ball towards long on and is off the mark with a single.
Arshdeep bowls it on the leg side as he sees Mitchell move across the stumps. The ball runs to the fine leg boundary as Mitchell gets a fine edge. The umpire first says bye and then signals boundary.
A dot later, Mitchell gets a single to long on as 6 runs and a wicket come off it.
Arshdeep continues and Phillips goes after a slower ball and is caught behind for 106. Arshdeep breaks the 222-run stand.
Siraj is back in the attack and Phillips and Mitchell start the over with a single each off the first two balls.
Siraj then appeals for a caught behind. Phillips reviews as the replay shows there was no connection between ball and bat. And the umpire is made tpo reverse his decision.
Short and wide and Phillips cuts it hard through backward point for a four!
Full toss next and Phillips hits it to long on for a single.
Another full toss and Mitchell hits it hard towards point and Rohit gets his finger tips to it but the ball runs to the boundary. 11 runs come off it.
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