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News Fast bowler says simulating game fitness by playing a Test is much better compared to preparing in the nets Trent Boult wasn’t expecting to play the ongoing second Test at Edgbaston “initially” but hopes that bowling against England compared to preparing in the nets will put him in “good stead” for the World Test

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By the time Zak Crawley completed his epic 267 at the Ageas Bowl last August, it appeared England had found a young player of significant ability. It wasn’t just the size of the innings that impressed. It was the range of stroke, the assured way he dealt with periods of pressure and the timing that

News Captain hopes that fans can inspire team after criticism for negativity at Lord’s Joe Root, England’s captain, hopes that the return of a near-capacity crowd for the second Test at Edgbaston can inspire his players to find their inner “showman”, and scotch suggestions that they are a negative team, in the wake of their

Adam Milne played for Kent in the Blast between 2017 and 2019 © Getty Images Kent have signed Adam Milne, the New Zealand pace bowler, as a replacement for Mohammad Amir, whose Pakistan Super League commitments will prevent him from appearing in the Vitality Blast. Amir had been due to play for Kent in the

News Mitchell Santner, meanwhile, has been ruled out of the next game with a finger injury New Zealand spin-bowling allrounder Mitchell Santner has been sidelined from the Edgbaston Test with a finger injury. His captain Kane Williamson is also under an injury cloud, having sustained an elbow niggle ahead of the second Test, which starts

News The allrounder is now back with the New Zealand squad and has no plans to ditch the captaincy New Zealand captain Sophie Devine has opened up on her decision to take a break from the game at the end of last season, with her fatigue having reached a point where she did not feel

News Boult is out of isolation “three or four days earlier than expected,” coach Gary Stead says Trent Boult is firming as a chance to play the second Test against England at Edgbaston starting June 10, having previously only been inked in for the World Test Championship final against India. Boult joined the New Zealand

News The visitors made a very positive declaration on the final day but the pitch did not deteriorate as expected New Zealand were left to rue a day lost to rain as their attempts to engineer victory came up short at Lord’s, but captain Kane Williamson praised the “superb cricket” played by his team after

News Southee picked up five of the eight England wickets to fall on the fourth day Tim Southee said New Zealand had not given up on the possibility of forcing victory at Lord’s, despite a day being lost to rain. The visiting side have made the running in the first Test, with Southee’s six-wicket haul

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News Having waited so long for Test debut, opener etches his name on away room board at first attempt Devon Conway has had to wait a long time for his chance in Test cricket. He moved from his native South Africa in his mid-20s to try to establish himself in a new country, then had

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News The left-armer is excited at the prospect of using the Duke ball against India Trent Boult is eyeing the chance to “create a bit of history” as he prepares to travel to England to join his team-mates ahead of the World Test Championship final against India later this month. Boult opted to return to

News Voted by team-mates and support staff as the side’s ‘cricketer of the year’ Kyle Jamieson won the 2021 edition of the Players’ Cap, which is awarded to the player who has been voted by the New Zealand players and support staff as their ‘cricketer of the year’. The inaugural Players’ Cap was won by

Big picture Twenty-three months on from a day of agony and ecstasy, New Zealand are back at Lord’s. Nine of their 19-man squad, seven of whom played in that final, are returning to the scene of their World Cup near-miss, and just in case they needed reminding of the granular detail, they arrived at the

News Batter expects Kane Williamson to find a way past the plans England’s bowlers have worked out for him Ahead of England’s two-Test series against New Zealand, fast bowler Ollie Robinson has detailed several plans to deal with Kane Williamson. But Ross Taylor downplayed Robinson’s assertions, saying that “a lot of teams” have tried to

News Head coach believes they’re in a “luxurious position” going into the two-Test series Head coach Gary Stead believes New Zealand are in something of a “luxurious position”, with competition for places and just a couple of question marks around their preferred XI to take on England at Lord’s this week. The identity of Tom

News It’s not on the FTP, it’s not part of the WTC, and it won’t feature any of England’s IPL players (bar one) England are set to play New Zealand in Tests at Lord’s and Edgbaston over the next two weeks. But how did the series, which was only confirmed in January and is in

News Conway strengthened his chances of a Test debut with a half-century in the intra-squad warm-up game Devon Conway pushed his case for a Test debut even further by scoring an unbeaten 55 against the Williamson XI on the opening day of New Zealand’s intra-squad two-day warm-up game at the Ageas Bowl. After the Latham

News Fast bowler also “mindful” of not wanting “to go searching too much” with the Dukes Ball New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Jamieson will have “conversations” with his fellow quicks about the Duke ball and be “mindful” of how it behaves during the upcoming tour of England. One big reason for New Zealand’s consistency in

News “When everyone left and I was the only overseas player left in India, that’s when it got real for me” “The world stops a little bit,” a visibly emotional Tim Seifert said as he recounted his experience of testing positive and then being treated for Covid-19 in India earlier this month. Seifert, the only

News New Zealand allrounder available for nine group-stage games as replacement for Mitchell Marsh Middlesex have further strengthened their squad for this year’s Vitality Blast by bringing in New Zealand allrounder Daryl Mitchell. Having signed Paul Stirling for the start of the tournament, Mitchell will come in for the last nine group games. The pair

News Acknowledges that the three Tests are in quick succession but says, “we have had a chance to prepare physically leading into this” Tim Southee believes that workload management would not be a concern for New Zealand as they gear up to play three Tests – a two-match series against England followed by the World

Kyle Jamieson has picked up 36 wickets in six Tests so far © Getty Images New Zealand allrounder Kyle Jamieson is wary of expecting too much assistance from the Dukes ball on New Zealand’s tour of England, saying that it could “hurt” their team’s chances if their pacers get carried away by chasing its fabled

News All contingent members will spend the first three days in hotel room isolation in Southampton The majority of the New Zealand Test contingent landed in London on Sunday after flying from Auckland via Singapore, for their tour of two Tests against the hosts and the World Test Championship final against India next month. The

News Jofra Archer to see specialist about long-standing elbow problem Ben Stokes is set to play for Durham at some stage during the Vitality T20 Blast after making “excellent progress” following the finger injury which has ruled him out of England’s Test series against New Zealand. Stokes underwent surgery last month after he fractured his

Kane Williamson, New Zealand’s Test captain, says he has resorted to waving to his team-mates from the balcony of his hotel-room at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton, after going into quarantine in the UK following his post-IPL stop-over in the Maldives. Williamson, who had been captaining Sunrisers Hyderabad in India prior to the tournament’s postponement

Chris Silverwood, England’s head coach, says he is comfortable that the buck now stops with him, after unveiling a 15-man squad for the two-Test series against New Zealand next month – his first since being named as the new supremo of the ECB’s selection process, following the end of Ed Smith’s three-year tenure as national