Chris Harris is unbeaten on 23 and Nathan Astle one, as New Zealand look to get around 200 runs ahead by stumps tonight to set up a fascinating last day tomorrow.

During the session, Stephen Fleming had only one run when in playing a ball from Matthew Hoggard, he again fell away to his off-side only to see the ball glance off his hip and into his wickets. New Zealand had lost its first two wickets for three runs at that point.

Mark Richardson paid the price for being too long in defensive mode and when he looked to up the scoring, against a part-timer in Mark Butcher, he holed out to square leg substitute fieldsman Usman Afzaal who took the catch on the second attempt. Chris Harris again survived some early moments, and around the drinks break several times had his head whipped back as bouncers from Andrew Caddick flew by his chin.

However, he stood firm and played some lovely off and cover driving while Nathan Astle was still settling into his task.

England were hardly bubbling over with enthusiasm in the field and in the first hour after tea only 12 overs were bowled.

He was dismissed right on the break for 36, having volunteered to open the innings in the absence of the injured Lou Vincent. Vincent took a blow to the chest in the first innings and will not be able to bat until seventh in the New Zealand order because he did not field during England's first innings.

Mark Richardson was 13 not out off 68 balls and New Zealand's lead was 95 runs after England were dismissed for 160 earlier in the session.

However, Parore left his mark in the over. He hit a square drive to the boundary, then flicked four over the slips cordon and followed that with a straight driven two.

The second boundary brought up the New Zealand 50. But then Hoggard came back with his wicket.

Parore ended his career with 2865 runs scored at an average of 26.52.

Hoggard had the only wicket, at a cost of 20 runs from 7.5 overs. Andrew Caddick had none for 14 off seven overs while Andrew Flintoff had none for 18, also from seven overs.

He took the place of Lou Vincent who is suffering from a bad bruise to his chest after being hit during the first innings by Andrew Caddick. Because he didn't field he is not entitled to bat until No 7 in the New Zealand innings.

After 13 overs, New Zealand were 25 without loss, a lead of 67. Parore was 18 and Mark Richardson five.

New Zealand claimed the last two wickets soon after the resumption of play. The vital blow was picking up Andrew Caddick when he launched into a big drive to a ball from Daryl Tuffey and was bowled at his pre-lunch score of 20.

Matthew Hoggard followed for a duck one run later as England were all out for 160, 42 runs behind New Zealand.

Hoggard was caught by Stephen Fleming at first slip, his 100th Test catch. Andre Adams was the bowler and he finished with three for 44.

Fleming became only the 18th player, other than wicket-keepers, to take 100 Test catches.

Those ahead of him are: Mark Waugh 173, Mark Taylor 157, Allan Border 156, Greg Chappell and Viv Richards 122, Ian Botham and Colin Cowdrey 120, Walter Hammond and Bob Simpson 110, Gary Sobers 109, Sunil Gavaskar 108, Brian Lara 107, Carl Hooper 106, Muhammad Azharuddin and Ian Chappell 105, Graham Gooch 103, Steve Waugh 102.

Tuffey finished with six wickets for 54 runs, his first five-wicket bag in Tests and completed what has been something of an amazing sequence for him since taking his first Test wicket last summer. He conceded 232 runs before he took his first wicket. Since then his 22 wickets have come at an average of 22.0.

On a morning more likely to be remembered for a monumental umpiring blunder which resulted in the dismissal of England's Andrew Flintoff, Tuffey built on the two wickets he took last evening which reduced England to 12/3 and saw them go to lunch at 157/8. Andrew Caddick was 20 and James Foster 15. England were 45 in arrears.

Tuffey had taken five for 54 at lunch, his previous best being four for 39 last summer against Pakistan in Hamilton.

No wicket Andre Adams takes will ever be easier than that for which he didn't even appeal and which saw Flintoff given out caught behind by Adam Parore.

It also ranked as Parore's 199th wicket-keeping dismissal but it won't be remembered as one of his more endearing appeals.

The ball missed Flintoff's bat by a country mile and after umpire Doug Cowie had given him out, Adams stood in mid-pitch scratching his head, while Flintoff walked from the ground furious at the call.

The small crowd at the ground, with a high percentage of English fans, became very disturbed when the television replay was shown on the big screens.

Adams was unfairly targeted as a villain of the piece when he ended the over, which was notable for new batsman Foster being dropped off a regulation edge by Parore.

As he went to field at fine leg, the crowd gave him the verbal treatment, forcing Stephen Fleming to move Adams to another position on the field.

It was a decisive moment in the innings, and possibly in the Test. Flintoff was just starting to wind into his action and had hit five fours and a six in reaching 29 off 29 balls.

Daryl Tuffey then made England's position much more serious by bowling Graham Thorpe for 42. The left-hander didn't offer a shot to a ball that nipped back and took the top of the off stump.

England were 122/7.

Ashley Giles had no answers to the control exhibited by Tuffey and was trapped leg before wicket for a duck to give Tuffey his first five-wicket bag in Tests and leave England 124/8.

Some relief for England was provided by lower order batsmen Andrew Caddick and Foster. Caddick took successive boundaries off Adams, one straight driven and one cover driven, while Foster helped himself to four through the covers off Tuffey.

From the next ball, Foster turned the ball to short leg and while Mark Richardson got his fingertips to the ball, he couldn't hold it. Caddick climbed into a ball from Tuffey which flew high to cover for two runs to bring up the 150.

England, who resumed on 12/3, had lost the wickets of Michael Vaughan and Mark Ramprakash in the first half of the elongated session. When drinks were taken they had advanced to 84/5 with Thorpe on 34 and Andrew Flintoff on four.

The demons that visited the ground on Monday evening appeared to have departed by the time play started at 10am on Tuesday morning.

That there was any play at all was something of a surprise considering Auckland was almost awash after a heavy rain shower in mid-evening last night.

But the day dawned fine and sunny and clearly helped the drying process.

Overnight batsmen Thorpe and Vaughan clearly relished the opportunity to bat their side towards an impregnable position. Thorpe was the more convincing, especially against Chris Drum who had 10 runs taken from his first over and who conceded 17 runs from his first three overs.

Vaughan had some luck on two counts, his first ball of the day from Drum was a full toss which he despatched through the covers for four and then, when setting off for a quick single off Daryl Tuffey's bowling, he was sent back and just beat a throw from Tuffey who fielded the ball in his follow through and was just wide of the stumps with his return.

Thorpe quickly caught up and passed Vaughan with some hard hit drives which raced across the slowish outfield.

Andre Adams replaced Drum from the southern end and produced a superb first ball in Test cricket to Vaughan which beat him and drew a leg before wicket appeal which looked slightly leg side-ish.

However, in his third over Adams claimed his first Test wicket when Vaughan touched a ball straight to wicket-keeper Adam Parore. He scored 27 off 53 balls.

Mark Ramprakash joined Thorpe and his first scoring shot was a top-edged six to square leg off Adams.

However, he played an extraordinarily luxurious, not to mention highly-risky, shot to Tuffey and edged the ball straight to Parore to be out for nine. England were 75/5.

Andrew Flintoff opened his scoring with a four over covers from Tuffey's bowling. Tuffey was rested just before the drinks break having taken three for 34 from 12 overs while the other wicket-taker Adams had one for 21 from his six overs.