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Hello there I'm Alistair Bruce Ball and this is 5 Live Cricket with our preview of the

second test between England and New Zealand which starts at Trent Bridge on Friday off

the back of that absolute thriller in the first test at Lord Joe Roots Magnificent Unbeaten

Century getting England over the line of rare test match win for them in recent times

under the new Captain Coach combination of Ben Stokes and Brendan McCullum but they know

New Zealand as the world test champions will come back at them hard.

So it's a tantalising prospect here to discuss it with me are the BBC's cricket correspondent

Jonathan Agnew and the former New Zealand captain Jeremy Coney, both of whom you'll

be able to hear on the test match special commentary which starts at 10.25 on Friday

morning on Radio 5 Sports Extra and the BBC Sounds app delighted to be able to speak

to you both. Jonathan I guess the first question is a neutral who was absolutely gripped

and thrilled by the first test. Do you think we can get more of the same at Trent Bridge?

My world do yes. Hello I'm Alistair. It's a bit of grass on the pitch. It's hard as

well. So I think the word from there is it'll be a good strip but there is that little

bit of green that you want to see at the start of a test match but not perhaps quite as

damp as the lords one started and there the ball did hold sway quite a lot. There's

a test cricket these days. It's interesting people talk about it being a thriller and

nail bite and it was with fine margins at lords but at the end of the day it's often good

to see the ball dominating the bat to an extent. You don't want to see a flat pitch but

you also want to see better batting I think from both sides and we saw it at lords. You

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