BJ Watling embodies many of the traits that make New Zealand such an accomplished Test side, ESPN reports.
Skilful but unflashy, hard-working and unflappable under pressure, impressive as an individual but wedded to the team's cause. The going has been tough in Mount Maunganui's maiden Test, but it was no surprise that Watling got going in response to leave New Zealand on top at the end of day three.
Watling did give up one chance, dropped at slip on 31 by the usually reliable Ben Stokes, but otherwise applied himself adroitly in conditions that lent themselves to his preferred mode of unobtrusive accumulation.
He brought up his eighth Test hundred, and second in consecutive innings, with a leg-side nurdle halfway through the evening session, and briefly allowed himself a moment in the sun as the first man to reach such a milestone at Bay Oval. Then it was back on with the helmet and on with the job at hand.
By that stage, Watling and Mitchell Santner had taken New Zealand into the lead, and they were able to extend their partnership through to the close as England endured a long, hot day in the dirt.
While Santner faced numerous uncomfortable moments in the face of a peppering from Stokes, he dug in for more than 100 balls to further stymie England.
England's frustrations were epitomised by Archer, who occasionally threatened to produce the fire-breathing form of his debut home summer - at one point sending the speed gun above 150kph - but remained wicketless after the DRS overturned an lbw decision against Watling late in the day.
