2 hours ago Second Rothesay Test, The Kia Oval (day 1 of five)
New Zealand 291-7: Blundell 51, Phillips 49*; Bethell 2-8, Baker 2-63
England: Yet to bat
England won the toss
England attempted to determination connected from the Ben Stokes contention with a coagulated opening time of the 2nd Test against New Zealand astatine The Oval.
Captain Stokes and gait bowler Gus Atkinson are unavailable pending an probe into an incidental successful a London nightclub pursuing England's triumph successful the archetypal Test.
Without them, an England squad captained by Joe Root, with 5 changes from the archetypal Test and including 3 debutants, worked hard to permission New Zealand 291-7 astatine the adjacent connected a existent batting surface.
The efforts justified Root's determination to tract archetypal connected a damp, humid morning. Sonny Baker, 1 of the trio of caller caps, picked up 2-63 and Jofra Archer was unlucky to assertion lone 1 wicket - helium bowled a accelerated and exhilarating spell precocious successful the day.
Glenn Phillips was the unfortunate recipient of Archer's thunderbolts, someway surviving to scope 49 not out. At the different end, Jacob Bethell burgled 2 wickets with his left-arm spin.
Daryl Mitchell, who was dropped connected two, made 44 and Tom Blundell 51, but a fig of the tourists' apical bid were blameworthy of wasting bully starts.
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