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Jonathan Agnew

Hair enjoys uneventful return (0)

Darrell Hair enjoyed an uneventful return to Test cricket. He correctly turned down a couple of early lbw appeals, and brandished his light meter when the drizzle started to fall. With bad light knocking 36 overs from the day, it was all very much business as usual.

But the cricket was thoroughly entertaining. New Zealand's openers, Jamie How and Aaron Redmond rattled along at four runs per over on a pitch that was noticeably slower than people predicted (it is only May, after all), but Ryan Sidebottom then bowled Redmond with an extraordinary delivery which must have deviated from one of the many cracks that make the strip look like a crazy-paved patio.

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Graham Gooch

Broken teeth and shattered noses (0)

New Zealand batsman Daniel Flynn "wore one" on the grille just after lunch on the first day of the second Test.

A bouncer from England paceman James Anderson took the left-hander by surprise and he left the field minus one of his front teeth.

This is part of the batsmen's lot when you opt to play the hook shot - the one I remember most is back in the mid-eighties against the great West Indian side of that era.

Mike Gatting was facing up to the legendary Malcolm Marshall, he attempted to hook but was rather slow on the ball and the ball made direct contact with his nose.

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