England vs New Zealand Highlights today Thursday, 23-6-2022 – 3rd Test, New Zealand tour of England from Headingley, Leeds.
NZ, elected to bat first.
Kane Williamson unsurprisingly wants to make first use of this Headingley deck. Neil Wagner does come in, alongside the returning Williamson, with the injured Jamieson and Matt Henry those to miss out. “For us, it’s about those small improvements, a lot of good in the last two games but try and build on that,” Williamson says of how his side will attack this. Stokes confirms he, too, would have batted first (but this does mean England could be asked to pull off a fourth-innings chase for the third Test running). Jamies Overton debuts, but England are otherwise unchanged. “The way we did it was the most pleasing thing,” Stokes says of Trent Bridge. “The way we operated the whole five days was fantastic. We’ve built something great over the past two weeks, we’re going to look to continue.”
England team: 1 Alex Lees, 2 Zak Crawley, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Ben Foakes (wk), 8 Matthew Potts, 9 Jamie Overton, 10 Jack Leach, 11 Stuart Broad
New Zealand team: 1 Tom Latham, 2 Will Young, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Devon Conway, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Henry Nicholls, 7 Tom Blundell (wk), 8 Michael Bracewell, Tim Southee, 10 Neil Wagner, 11 Trent Boult
Head to Head In ODI’s: 109
Eng Won: 50
NZ Won: 12
Match Timings: 10:00 GMT | 11:00 Local
Umpires – Marais Erasmus, Richard Kettleborough
TV Umpires – Aleem Dar
Match Referee – David Boon
Reserve Umpire – David Millns
Match number – Test no. 2467
