Hazlewood removed Martin Guptill (17) and Tom Latham (10) as New Zealand slipped to 32-2 and had Ross Taylor dropped at second slip by skipper Steve Smith before he’d scored.
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The Black Caps would have wanted a bigger lead to begin their second innings but were undone by a unfortunate rearguard attack from the Australian tail.
The review was churned over for minutes before the TV umpire Nigel Llong decided there was not enough to go on despite the Hot Spot evidence to give Lyon out, caught off spinner Santner, with Australia reeling at 118/8 and trailing the Kiwis by 84 runs. Mitchell Starc then added a dogged 24 before Nevill was the last man out for 66, giving Doug Bracewell his third wicket.
New Zealand’s batsmen may yet have to cope with Australian speedster Mitchell Starc in their return test series in February.
New Zealand lead by 94 with five wickets in hand, and no-one knows what Sunday will bring.
Starc has stress fractures in his foot suffered during the day-night third Test against New Zealand in Adelaide.
Lyon was given not out to a caught appeal, New Zealand reviewed the decision and on replays Hot Spot showed a clear edge.
The New Zealand openers survived unscathed for seven overs before the dinner interval to get the score back on level terms, but when the pink ball started swinging under the lights again at Adelaide Oval wickets became to fall, and New Zealand staggered to stumps at 116 for 5.
“James was probably pretty close to playing here I would have thought so with him back (along with Josh Hazlewood and Peter Siddle) we’ve got our three quicks and (all-rounder) Mitchell Marsh”, he said.
Meanwhile, all-rounder Mitchell Marsh offered substantial help by taking two essential wickets of Kane Williamson (9) and captain Brendon McCullum (20).
After 12 wickets fell on the opening day’s play, another 13 piled up on day two as the time-honoured battle between bat and ball was decisively won by the bowlers on both sides. The crowd response has been overwhelming so far with more than 40,000 turning up for the first two days and the numbers will swell on the third looking at the match situation.
He said they are well placed in the end but the middle order collapse is something they need to work on.
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“Grant has obviously played second XI cricket for Victoria, he has fielded for us before on tours”, Test paceman Josh Hazlewood said.
