David Leggat shares his five pink ball thoughts out of the Eden Park test.

Overall NZC will be disappointed at the turnout, albeit a touch philosophical.

New Zealand have won the first test against England by an innings and 49 runs.

To bask in Australia's cricketing glory means also having to squirm in its shame.

All the action from the final day of the first Test between New Zealand and England.

Grubby scandals always trumps stories of goodwill if Herald viewer statistics are a gauge.

COMMENT: The sun came out and sanity returned to the Alternative Commentary Collective.

The equations are simple for NZ and England as the pink-ball test concludes today.

Nicholls anchored the New Zealand cause with his highest first-class score of 145 not out.

COMMENT: Is more play lost to rain in cricket than any other game?

Weather has thwarted New Zealand's chances of winning home tests 4 times in 6 seasons.

All the action - or the lack of it - from the third day of the first Test.

Pop star, who is in Auckland to perform three sold-out shows, also met Kane Williamson.

The end of the drawn-out day-night was immensely frustrating.

Kane Williamson's ascendancy to become NZ's leading test century-maker seemed inevitable.

Ed Sheeran has popped into the New Zealand and England team dressing rooms at Eden Park.

Kane Williamson became the leading century-maker in New Zealand test cricket.

England's batting collapse yesterday was a bitter sweet experience for NZ's 1955 side.

England players unhappy after Kane Williamson was given not out for a run out.

England's stunning capitulation was 'surreal', says Trent Boult.

Barely a beer had been poured or a burger flipped before England's first innings folded.

The Black Caps took an axeman's grip on the country's maiden day-night test.

Anyone with a fifth-day ticket is in trouble; then again, the weather forecast is poor.

England managed just 58 runs in their first innings. Here's how the carnage unfolded.

Relive all the action from a stunning first day of cricket at Eden Park.

Don't get caught up in the novelty, remember what the next five days are about.

All you need to know ahead of the first day-night test between New Zealand and England.

Why the Black Caps stand a better chance of victory in the test series.

Eden Park's future test cricketing credentials go on the line this afternoon.

Similaries are everywhere when you compare the test careers of Williamson and Root.