Lyth a home-town hero but Kiwis laugh last

Trent Boult and Tim Southee led a New Zealand recovery after Adam Lyth scored his maiden Test century and Alastair Cook became England's all-time leading Test run-scorer at Headingley on Saturday.

England were cruising on the second day of the second Test while left-handed openers Lyth (107) and skipper Cook (75) were sharing a first-wicket stand of 177.

But the departure of Lyth, needlessly run out shortly before the second new ball, sparked a slump that claimed four wickets.

At stumps, England were 5-253 in reply to New Zealand's first innings 350, a deficit of 97 runs.

"It is pretty even - the last hour brought them back in the game," Cook told Sky Sports.

Left-armer Boult used the new ball to take two wickets for 10 runs in four overs and Southee one for seven, also in four overs.

Lyth is Cook's sixth opening partner since the retirement of former captain Andrew Strauss and went some way to making the berth his own ahead of the Ashes series starting in July.

He shared England's first century opening stand in a home Test since Cook and Strauss added 186 against India at Edgbaston on 2011.

Lyth had managed just seven and 12 on debut during England's 124-run win in the first of this two-Test series at Lord's.

His century took 188 balls and included 14 fours.

"It was a fantastic moment for myself and my family," said Lyth.

"I was very pleased to get three figures in front of a home crowd."

Earlier, Cook overtook the previous England record of 8,900 Test runs set by his mentor Graham Gooch when he square-drove Southee for four and reached the score of 32.

"It was an amazing moment, very humbling," said Cook.

The economical Craig removed Cook, although it needed a New Zealand review to have the skipper lbw after he missed an intended sweep.

"I knew it hit him in line," said Craig, who bowled with far greater control for return of one for 38 in 22 overs.

"I was obviously disappointed with the way I bowled at Lord's, and knew I could bowl better.

"It was a matter of getting one (wicket). Once we did that, we knew we could go bang, bang - and we also knew that things tend to happen quite late in the day here as well."

Cook batted for nearly four hours and faced 187 balls including a dozen boundaries.

He walked off having moved up to 12th place in the all-time list of leading Test run-scorers with 8,944 runs in 114 matches and 203 innings, at an average of 46.82, with 27 hundreds and 41 fifties.

Then a mix-up between the Yorkshire pair of Lyth and Gary Ballance had Lyth dismissed when debutant wicket-keeper Luke Ronchi gathered Boult's low throw from point.

Ballance (29) was then bowled by a full length delivery from Boult and then Southee had another Yorkshireman in Joe Root (one) well caught by Ronchi off a superb outswinger that moved away late.

Ben Stokes had been England's hero at Lord's with innings of 92 and 101. But he had made just six on Saturday to leave England 5-247.

Earlier, New Zealand resumed on 8-297 and thrashed 53 runs in just 7.1 overs before they were all out.

Stuart Broad took the last two wickets, finishing with five for 109 in 17.1 overs.

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