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Honours almost even as England lead by 205 after third day of first Test with New Zealand

Yet another spell of late collapses left the first test evenly balanced after the third day at Lord's with England closing on 180-6 and leading by 205 runs.

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McCullum went to Stuart Broad off just the fourth ball of the day, and both James Anderson and Steve Finn built on that fine start by cleaning up the last five wickets between them. Finn finished with 4-63 while Anderson took 5-47 to claim a fourth five-wicket haul at Lord's as New Zealand failed to make it even to lunch.

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