LIVE TEST CRICKET: Day two from Trent Bridge as England resume on 273-7

5pm: WICKET - Anderson's on fire - that's six. Jacob Oram is undone by an off-cutter as Ambrose pockets another simple catch.

Anderson now has career-best figures of 14.4-3-39-6. And the Kiwis are 93-6.

4.35: WICKET - High five for Anderson as he bags another. Jamie How is caught at the wicket by Tim Ambrose for 40 and New Zealand are in deep, deep trouble. 77-5.

4.15: WICKET - And that's four for Jimmy. Daniel Flynn - new teeth and all - is LBW to Anderson without troubling the scorers. Three balls he lasted. New Zealand are teetering on 62-4.

Anderson's figures: 9-30-4.

Friday fun: England's James Anderson appeals for another Kiwi wicket

4.10: WICKET - Jimmy picks up his third wicket. Ross Taylor can't resist having a go at a full delivery and gets a thick edge which spurts out to Kevin Pietersen in the gully, who snaffles the chance expertly.

Taylor made 21 off 50 balls. The tourists are 62-3.

3.40: TEA- The Kiwis are 57-2 after 19 overs. Jimmy Anderson has bowled expertly to take 2-26. He deserves his cuppa.

2.40: WICKET - Jimmy Anderson turns Brendan McCullum inside out and clean bowls him for nine runs - off nine balls. The New Zealanders' decision to take the gloves off McCullum so he can concentrate on his batting and protect his back has back-fired spectacularly.

14-2 and the replay showing McCullum's off-stump tumbling is a beauty.

2.20pm WICKET - A wonderful start to the New Zealand innings for England and James Anderson. In his first over he managed to get one to move slightly off the seam and send Aaron Redmond's off stump cartwheeling and put New Zealand on 2-1.

CHANGE OF INNINGS

2.05pm WICKET - Monty Panesar looks to be stunned at being given out to a bat-pad catch by Brendan McCullum off Daniel Vettori's bowling. Monty failed to score any runs and England's innings comes to an end for 364.

2pm: WICKET - Stuart Broad's excellent innings is brought to an end for 64. Chris Martin managed to angle a ball in an just clip the top of Broad's off-stump. The wicket sees England move to 361-9.

1.45pm: Broad's 50 - Stuart Broad brings up his first Test 50 with a lovely tickle through mid-wicket off Daniel Vettori. He and Ryan Sidebottom then took England to 350-8 off 122 overs.

1pm: LUNCH - Stuart Broad, who has batted sublimely, is not out on 49 with Ryan Sidebottom on 3. England on 341-8 have scored 68 runs in the 30-over session. Just one wicket has fallen and the run-rate's been a pedestrian 2.27.

12.40: WICKET - Jimmy Anderson's splendid innings is over - as is the Kiwis' one-hour-and-40-minute  wait for a wicket. Anderson nibbled at a decent ball from Jacob Oram and Gareth Hopkins did the rest behind the stumps.

Anderson made 28 from 85 balls to lift England to 338-8 - a terrific tail-end knock.

12noon: It's slow going but England have yet to lose a wicket this morning. And they've crawled past the 300 mark. 308-7. And a majestic cover-drive from Jimmy Anderson brings up the 50 partnership - the Lancashire bowler's on 19, Broad is undefeated on 29.

11.30: The New Zealanders are rightly frustrated this morning. They've yet to take a wicket and Brendan McCullum - remember, he's opted not to keep wicket in this Test - has put down a chance at second slip. England have moved on to 292-7 off 98 overs.

11am: The curious incident of 'Jimmy Anderson the nightwatchman' has been solved by Athers in the commentary box. Ryan Sidebottom suffered a back spasm and has dropped down the batting order.

Play's underway and Stuart Broad pats back Chris Martin's first ball of the day. No run.

Kevin Pietersen has urged England's selectors to keep faith with their struggling middle order by claiming there is no one in county cricket better than those currently in the team, ahead of day two of the thrid and final npower Test at Trent Bridge today.

Hampshire batsman KP hit a brilliant 115 to help England reach a respectable 273 for seven against New Zealand at close yesterday.

He shared a 161-run partnership with Tim Ambrose, which rescued England from a desperate 86 for five after they lost three wickets in 13 balls after lunch with both Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood being dismissed for ducks.

Ton up: England's Kevin Pietersen celebrates his 100 at Trent Bridge

That mini-collapse increased the pressure on both Bell and Collingwood, neither of whom have performed consistently recently, when the selectors meet up again at the start of July to pick the squad for the opening Test against South Africa at Lord's.

But Pietersen believes the selectors should maintain the top order by claiming possible candidates to replace them like Owais Shah, Ravi Bopara and Robert Key were not as good as the current line-up.

"It's obviously a struggle but at the end of the day I saw on television at tea time a list of the batsmen who are the top run-scorers in county cricket at the moment and none of those guys are better than Ian Bell or Paul Collingwood," Pietersen said.

"Not one of them can touch them, so it is just a matter of time. The cycle of life has it that you're going to have good days and bad days."

PLAT STARTS at 11am