England vs New Zealand Highlights today. Thursday, 4 June 2026, New Zealand tour of England 2026. The match will be played at Lord’s, London. It has been very interesting first day between England and New Zealand. Both sides bowlers really enjoyed today, total sixteen wickets fell in 59 overs bowled today. England reached 140 runs total in their first innings. Harry posted 56 runs knock, rest of the English made so little contributions. Kyle dismissed five home team batters, Nathan S took three and Will O took two wickets from NZ bowling line-up.
In reply, New Zealand lost six wickets till stumps day one with 61 runs on the board. Ollie R became nightmare for NZ batters, he dismissed four of them in six overs with leaking just ten runs.
Toss: New Zealand chose to field.
England team: Gay, Duckett, Bethell, Root, Brook, Stokes, J Smith, Atkinson, Robinson, Tongue, Bashir.
New Zealand team: Latham, Conway, Williamson, Ravindra, Mitchell, Blundell, Phillips, N Smith, Jamieson, Henry, O’Rourke.
Head to Head In Test’s: 115
England Won: 54
New Zealand Won: 14
England Test Rankings: 4th
New Zealand Test Rankings: 5th
Form guide
(last five completed Test’s, most recent first)
England LWLLL
New Zealand WWWDW
Event: New Zealand tour of England 2026
Match Timings: 10:00 AM GMT | 11:00 AM Local
Umpires – Adrian Holdstock, Rod Tucker
TV Umpire – Nitin Menon
Match Referee – Andy Pycroft
Reserve Umpire – M Burns
Match number – Test no. 2621
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