A huge target of 658 for England

The third Test between the touring England team and New Zealand

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The England team set a target of 658 runs to win the third Test between the touring England team and New Zealand.

Accordingly, when the match was stopped today (16th), England, who were chasing that huge goal, were in a difficult situation after scoring 18 runs for 2 wickets.
New Zealand, who scored first in this match in Hamilton, scored 347 runs in 97.1 overs.
Tom Latham scored 63, Will Young scored 42 and Kane Williamson scored 44. Mitchell Santner scored 76 points. Jacob Bethel took 4 wickets while bowling for England.
After that, England, who played the first innings, could only score 143 runs in 35.4 overs. Joe Roo scored 32 points and Ben Stokes scored 27 points.Matt Henry took 4 wickets for New Zealand while Will O'Rockie and Mitchell Santner shared 3 wickets each.
Accordingly, England was 204 runs ahead of the first innings and New Zealand, who played the second innings, scored 453 runs.Accordingly, England's target for victory is 658 runs.
Kane Williamson scored 156 runs in the second innings. It also marked Williamson's 33rd Test century.