It has been an entertaining few days regardless of all of the pitch discussions, which I'm sure will rumble on throughout the week.

Thanks for your company throughout it all. England took one step closer to putting the Ashes disaster behind them by taking a 1-0 lead in the series while New Zealand will probably just forget about this one and start afresh at The Oval next Wednesday.

Here's Stephan Shemilt's match report if you missed any of today...

...but there's still plenty of cricket to come as England start their Women's T20 World Cup campaign later this week.

They take on Sri Lanka on Friday so make sure you join us here at 18:30 BST for that one!

England captain Ben Stokes to Test Match Special: "Test cricket is tough and you don't rock up and expect everything to be in your favour, that's the beauty of it. You've got to act on your feet quickly to give yourself the best chance of winning.

"I was really happy with the way we stuck to our plans. I love the levelness of emotions, the calmness that was still in the dressing room.

"I think there are two sides to it. I get asked about the future of Test cricket, and the only thing I would say from some one who loves the format, is that we need people to come and watch Test cricket played over five days.

"It's so tough to say, they're trying their hardest to produce good wickets. From someone who loves Test cricket, is that something that will benefit Test cricket? I don't think so. But nobody's doing it on purpose. It's a tough job to be a groundsman."

Ben Stokes has given his verdict on the Lord's pitch to Test Match Special.

We'll bring that to you next.

Ollie Robinson has said that he is determined to make this next stage of his England career last a lot longer than the first.

He had the conditions in his favour this week but he's made a very promising start to say the least.

With so few overs bowled amid rain delays and such short batting innings, both teams are unlikely to require making any big changes to their bowling attacks.

For New Zealand, there is a question mark over Matt Henry who went down with back spams in the first session, but he does have 10 days to recover.

England are yet to confirm whether Jofra Archer will be available.

Gus Atkinson's 5-30 today ensured there was one five-wicket haul in each innings of this Test, joining Kyle Jamieson, Ollie Robinson and Nathan Smith.

Conditions are likely to be very different when Atkinson is back on home soil for the next Test at The Oval, however! That second Test starts on Wednesday 17 June.

More from Ben Stokes: "I said to him [Emilio Gay] that these conditions are at the top of the tough end in Test cricket, and the pressure that he was under in the third innings in such a low-scoring game.

"It was a monumental innings to get us to a lead that we were comfortable with, to believe that we could secure the victory, so yeah it was a tough introduction for him but I think it'll serve him really well going forward.

"Of course, we all want to see more runs as batters, but it was a massive contribution on debut."

England captain Ben Stokes: "Coming in after a long time away, with a lot of things happening off the field, to come and put a performance like that is pleasing.

"Test cricket is tough, you never know what conditions you're going to get presented with so I think the way that we identified how we wanted to go about it - we established that very quickly, and that's why we came away with the win this week.

"The conversations this week happened quickly. When you've got a lot of people in a dressing room there can be a lot of ideas being thrown around but we voiced them pretty well, and that's when you get into a situation where you can go out there as a team and be very clear.

"It was a challenging wicket for batters but sometimes for bowling, because you're massively in the game and we knew what we needed to do with our plans to the New Zealand batters this week. We executed them probably as well as I've seen an England bowling group do that since I've been captain."

England head coach Brendon McCullum speaking to BBC TMS: "The beauty of Test cricket is that you have contrasting conditions and challenges and you have to find ways to adapt and be successful on them. The good thing from our point of view is that when you're involved in a low scoring shoot out, your execution has to be bang on.

"Our execution with the ball was outstanding, our plans were great. With the bat, I thought we were brave at times and calculated at other times.

"Bravery can be misunderstood, it's not always running down wicket and banging it into the stands, bravery is about being able to manipulate your stance at the crease, manufacture ones. I thought our boys did a good job with that.

"New Zealand are a team that does things really well for a long time so I didn't expect them to do much different with the bat. From their point of view, it looked like they were trying to get it into a pressure situation, get as close to the total as they could and hope we feel that pressure but thankfully we were able to get enough wickets to negate that."

Ashwanth R Kavuluri
CricViz analyst

Gus Atkinson has 76 Test wickets - the most by any bowler since his debut on 10 July 2024.

India's Jaspirt Bumrah and Australia's Mitchell Starc are joint second, with 75 in that time.

Player of the Match Ollie Robinson: "Yeah, there was a time where I never thought I'd be back on a pitch with England so to get that win for the team is such a special feeling. Walking off there with the lads, a win under our belts in the first game of the summer, it's amazing.

"It's probably the worst nerves I've had before a game, to be honest. My anxiety was through the roof the day before, I couldn't feel my legs! But it calmed down a bit after the first wicket and the crowd was just unbelievable, one of the loudest crowds I've played in front of.

"The feeling was so surreal [after my first over]. I didn't really have any words to describe it but to look back, it's one of the highlights of my career so far, for sure.

"I feel like we just bowled really well on it, we targeted the stumps and then it did get a bit up and down towards the end with a bit of seam movement and sideways. But our plans were really clear and we stuck to them.

"Definitely [more determined]. I know that this is just the start and there's a lot more hard work to be done but I want to make sure it's a long career and there won't be any let-up this time."

Michael Vaughan
Former England captain on BBC Test Match Special

MCC know that they need to do lot of work to get this square right. It's been very difficult for the batters, very easy for the bowlers but you look at the fielding element, that's where New Zealand really let themselves down.

It's been a shocker, the MCC will know that. Maybe that will instigate some movement in terms of change, maybe this week had to happen for a bit of the square to be dug up and replaced.

New Zealand skipper Tom Latham speaking to BBC TMS: "It's a surface that we weren't expecting. I don't think anyone was expecting that. There were two highly talented bowling attacks that exploited those conditions.

"We had those opportunities from a fielding perspective and we weren't able to capitalise. There are small moments that you have to take and we didn't take them. It's not ideal but it is what it is, we were faced with the same conditions.

"Throughout Tests some things swing your way, that's the nature of the sport. That's down to umpires' decisions so I think it's important that we don't delve too much into this game. For us it's about trusting the work that we've been putting in."

Who will be named player of the match?

Here are the contenders:

• Harry Brook - 56 (71)
• Kyle Jamieson - 5-62
• Ollie Robinson - 5-39
• Emilio Gay - 57 (95)
• Nathan Smith - 6-70
• Gus Atkinson - 5-30

Here's how Gus Atkinson sealed the win for England as he finished with figures of 5-30.

Stay with us as we recap the Test, and we'll hear from both camps shortly.

It'll be very interesting to hear what the players have to say about the pitch, as we've heard plenty from the pundits!

Ben Jones
CricViz analyst

Only three men have more five-wicket hauls at Lord's than Gus Atkinson: Ian Botham, Fred Trueman and James Anderson.

Phil Tufnell
Former England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

There are cracks underneath the tufts, it's one of those pitches that as a batter you're never feeling "in" and that's not how the game should be played.

It looked a bit of a crime scene, it's an odd-looking pitch.

Ashwanth R Kavuluri
CricViz analyst

That was Gus Atkinson's fourth five-wicket haul at Lord's.

He has picked up 26 wickets at an average of just 9.5. Only three other bowlers have a lower average than him at any venue (minimum 20 wickets at a venue).

His strike-rate of 15.4 in Lord's is the best in the world at a venue with at least 20 wickets.

Glenn Phillips and Devon Conway provided some resistance for New Zealand this morning, with the former left stranded on 44 not out.

The pitch, unfortunately, is going to dominate most of the discourse. It has been inconsistent from the first ball, with two fine half-centuries from Harry Brook and Emilio Gay the outliers.

But England have taken one step to putting their Ashes woes behind them.

Sam Drury
BBC Sport at Lord's

Finished off emphatically by Gus Atkinson. His record at Lord's is unbelievable and he's onto the honours board yet again.

An odd Test in many ways but, for England, after their Ashes debacle, it's back to winning ways.