{"id":654147,"date":"2026-05-06T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654147\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:41:10","slug":"england-v-new-zealand-kyle-jamieson-will-orourke-bolster-black-caps-pace-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/654147\/","title":{"rendered":"England v New Zealand: Kyle Jamieson &#038; Will O&#8217;Rourke bolster Black Caps&#8217; pace attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Test will be England&#8217;s first since their 4-1 Ashes defeat and the presence of Jamieson and O&#8217;Rourke means their batting line-up, which struggled in Australia, will be tested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Black Caps&#8217; squad also includes seamer Matt Henry, Blair Tickner &#8211; who took eight wickets in two one-day internationals against England last year &#8211; and Zak Foulkes, who took four in the first match of that series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamieson claimed 80 wickets in just 19 Tests before his injury, while O&#8217;Rourke has 39 in 11, including 10 against England in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Sears, another seamer, is part of the squad to play Ireland and will tour England as a travelling reserve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Dean Foxcroft, who bowls off-spin, has been called up for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand squad to play Ireland and England: Tom Latham (capt), Tom Blundell (wk), Kristian Clarke (Ireland only), Devon Conway, Zak Foulkes, Dean Foxcroft, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Will O&#8217;Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Michael Rae (Ireland only), Rachin Ravindra, Ben Sears (Ireland only), Nathan Smith, Blair Tickner, Kane Williamson, Will Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Test will be England&#8217;s first since their 4-1 Ashes defeat and the presence of Jamieson and O&#8217;Rourke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-654147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}