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But Andrew Caddick then took six for 63 as the Black Caps were bowled out 62 runs behind in mid-afternoon.

He was partnered by Ashley Giles, who took the remaining four for 103, bowling over the wicket into the rough to the right-handers.

Poor decisions

At the close, England were 184 for one, with Trescothick eyeing a third Test century, unbeaten on 77, and Butcher 57 not out.

Both Trescothick and Butcher prospered from questionable decisions by home umpire Steve Dunne, standing in his last Test.

Wicket-keeper Adam Parore was left open-mouthed on two occasions, when apparent edges were turned down.

And Giles suffered early in the day, when Dunne's decision that Mark Richardson's bat had connected with an lbw chance was quickly disproven by replays.

Trescothick and fellow-opener Michael Vaughan put on 79 together before Vaughan was caught slog-sweeping Daniel Vettori to deep backward square leg for 34.

And Butcher joined the party with an 85-ball 50, after surviving a drop by Parore, also off the bowling of the spinner, when he had made just eight.

Collapse

Richardson and Vincent both ground out half-centuries as the hosts crept from an overnight 70 for one past a follow-on target of 131 without further loss.

But five wickets were then lost for the addition of 14 runs as New Zealand looked to raise the pace.

Caddick took six for the second successive innings

Caddick's part in that collapse was the wickets of Kiwi skipper Stephen Fleming and Richardson for 60.

And he kept the pressure on to quell tailend resistance, finding Vettori's edge on the stroke of lunch and dismissing dangerman Craig McMillan lbw for 41.

Giles bagged Nathan Astle and Parore in quick succession after the dismissal of Vincent opened the floodgates.

After making a chance-filled 57, the New Zealand number three gained a top-edge to Thorpe at backward square leg.

And Thorpe's lightning reflexes at gully accounted for a full-blooded cut from Fleming in the first over of Caddick's second spell.

Astle fell to a spectacular one-handed catch from Nasser Hussain, low at first slip for four.

And Parore followed, having faced just four deliveries, a forward defensive popping up to Mark Ramprakash at short leg.

Resistance

Richardson was caught off an inside edge that ballooned off the pad to a diving Giles at gully, having made 60 from 180 deliveries.

But McMillan partnered Vettori and Chris Drum in adding 52 for the seventh and eighth wickets.

Using an unorthodox, side-on stance, he swept Giles to good effect before being struck plum on the front pad by Caddick.

New Zealand's tradition of bottom order resistance continued, with Drum surviving 28 deliveries for his two.

And Butler hit two boundaries in an innings of 12 before he was last out, caught by a diving Foster behind the stumps.

New Zealand: S Fleming (capt), N Astle, I Butler, C Drum, M Horne, C Martin, C McMillan, A Parore (wkt), M Richardson, D Vettori, L Vincent.

England: N Hussain (capt), M Trescothick, M Butcher, G Thorpe, M Ramprakash, M Vaughan, A Flintoff, A Giles, J Foster (wkt), A Caddick, M Hoggard.

Umpires: S Dunne, D Hair (Aus).

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