{"id":5541,"date":"2023-02-26T02:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T20:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=283409"},"modified":"2023-02-26T02:03:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T20:33:04","slug":"nz-vs-eng-2nd-test-day-3-live-scores-officials-set-to-start-30-minutes-earlier-than-scheduled-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/nz-vs-eng-2nd-test-day-3-live-scores-officials-set-to-start-30-minutes-earlier-than-scheduled-time\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ vs ENG 2nd Test Day 3 Live Scores: Officials set to start 30 minutes earlier than scheduled time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England are taking on hosts New Zealand in the second test and the visitors seemed to have dominated the game by Day 2. <strong>The rain having the last laugh on Day 2, the Day 3 might be played a bit earlier to cover the remaining overs which were supposed to be bowled on Day 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The action will begin early to cover up the lost overs, so the first ball will be bowled at 3 am IST (9.30 pm GMT, Previous Day).<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"taboola-below-article-thumbnails\" class=\" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_alternating-thumbnails-a \" data-placement-name=\"below-article\">\n<div class=\"trc_rbox_container\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"trc_wrapper_35561\" class=\"trc_rbox alternating-thumbnails-a trc-content-hybrid \">\n<div id=\"trc_header_35561\" class=\"trc_rbox_header trc_rbox_border_elm\">\n<div class=\"trc_header_ext\">On Day 2, England took complete control of the second Test against New Zealand, thanks to a lethal opening spell from James Anderson, who has risen to the top of the world Test bowling rankings. After England declared their first innings at 435-8, veteran seamer Anderson snagged 3-37 to send the Black Caps crashing to 138-7 when rain forced an early end to day two in Wellington. Spinner Jack Leach also took three wickets, leaving New Zealand trailing by 297 runs with three days to go.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>New Zealand is trailing by 297 runs and has three wickets in hand. It\u2019s safe to say England will take a huge lead, and the hosts may be asked to follow suit. And, as it did on day 1, <strong>rain had the last laugh<\/strong> in the final hour of day 2.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Brief Score:<\/strong> \u00a0England 435\/8 decl. (Harry Brook 186, Joe Root 153*; Matt Henry 4-100, Michael Bracewell 2-54) lead New Zealand 138\/7 (Tom Latham 35; Jack Leach 3-45, James Anderson 3-37) by 297 runs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England are taking on hosts New Zealand in the second test and the visitors seemed to have dominated the game\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3530,164],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-day-3","tag-new-zealand"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}