"I think when you're taking wickets, the adrenaline keeps you going. I don't think I've bowled a session before," Sidebottom told reporters.

"We didn't have a telling off but we did have a get together and said we needed to pull our fingers out because the match was slipping away," he said of their lunch meeting.

"You don't expect it to go so well but I think we pulled it together as a team.

Sidebottom, who returned to test cricket last year after a six-year absence and has been a first choice ever since, has now taken 23 wickets in the series, making him the most successful England bowler on a New Zealand tour.

"It's going well," Sidebottom said of his international return.

"I'm not going to change much because things can change quickly. But if I keep putting the ball in the right areas then you're always a chance.

"I don't bowl 88-90 mph... I've just tried to get the ball in the right areas and if it seams around or swings, then you're always a chance."

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