NOTES FROM THE OVAL #2

NZ drop it like it's hot, PLUS: A few bits and pieces to read and watch over the weekend.

“Look out it’s behind you!” Latham’s day goes from bad to slapstick. Getty Images

NZ 348 (Williamson 93, Phillips 58*; Basir 4-69, Carse 4-64), England 319-5 (Brook 132*, Pope 77)

It is tempting to write “catches win matches” and exit stage left.

There’s still far too much cricket left in this first test to be definitive, but you cannot help but feel that…