England's winter of discontent: Even when favourites they don't have the firepower to ram it home 

Joe Root and Stuart Broad
England let another chance slip Credit: GETTY IMAGES

Stickability. The scrapping tendencies of under-dogs. Whatever it was in the New Zealand psyche, their cricketers forced a draw that condemned England to their longest winless sequence of Tests abroad.

Ish Sodhi and Neil Wagner were not even born in New Zealand but they acquired the local characteristics in time to thwart England. In the morning session England took four wickets - but only four more in the rest of the day so the hosts held out with two wickets in hand. It made for only the fourth Test series New Zealand have won against England (1-0) and their first since 1999.

Wagner was out to the final possible ball of the game before bad...

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