Often, evenly-fought Test matches have a 'moving day' on Day 3. It's the day when the game progresses along at breakneck pace as momentum shifts and the team capable of getting their noses ahead, do it. The proceedings of the said moving day often go a long way in determining the eventual result. After a 16-wicket start to the Lord's Test between England New Zealand, Kyle Jamieson reckoned 'moving day' has now shifted to Day 1.

The pacer, who was in the thick of the action with a five-wicket haul, has a point. At stumps on the opening day of the fixture, England had already been bowled out for 140 and New Zealand were six down for 61 in their riposte.

"Moving day has shifted from day three to day one, I suppose it's probably hard to process it at this point of time," Jamieson said. “We've got a bit of work to do in the morning with the bat, and I'm sure we'll have another crack with the ball as well.”

New Zealand will resume on Day 2 still 79 behind and with only four wickets in hand. While hoping to get as close to England's total as possible, New Zealand are also sweating over Matt Henry's availability for the rest of the fixture. Jamieson's new-ball partner sent down just four overs before leaving the field due to back spasms on the first morning. Jamieson is hopeful for Henry to bowl in this fixture again at some stage.

"It's a shame for him to go down and hopefully we'll get him back at some point in this test match," Jamieson said.

Jamieson himself knows a thing or two about back injuries. The Lord's fixture was Jamieson's first in Tests since 2024, having been laid low by stress fracture in his back. He made a rousing return, finishing with a fifer in pristine bowling conditions.

"When you work your butt off and it [injury] happens again, you're sort of staring through the barrel of what would I do different?" he said. "But through the process of outsourcing my rehab, uncovering what went wrong, it gave me a lot of confidence that it wasn't really me that was the issue... there was a whole bunch of reasons why it occurred," Jamieson said.