Meanings of successive tests in English

Best added three wickets in the morning to his three overnight, giving him a five-wicket haul in successive tests.

His last six test innings have yielded only 54 runs since he scored centuries in successive tests in New Zealand in March.

Results: Prostate-specific antigen doubling time and PSA velocity alerted a high proportion of men initially but became unresponsive to changes with successive tests.

Ofisa Treviranus will be the third different player to wear the number eight jersey in successive tests with Jack Lam shifting to the openside.

England's batsmen rode their luck and Root's half-century was his 12th in successive tests -equalling the world record of South Africa's AB de Villiers.

Teichmann, the 32-year-old number eight, was among 11 players dropped from the 29-man squad which lost three successive tests in June and July.

South Africa also benefitted, for the second time in successive Tests, from a television umpire overturning a catch decision by the on-field umpires.

Saturday's first Test will played at the Auckland venue where the back-to-back world champions have won 37 successive Tests since 1994.