{"id":668531,"date":"2026-05-13T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668531\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:17:10","slug":"cricket-2026-england-reveal-test-squad-for-new-zealand-series-zak-crawley-dropped-bazball-debutants-news-full-squad-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/668531\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket 2026: England reveal Test squad for New Zealand series, Zak Crawley dropped, Bazball, debutants, news, full squad, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England have dropped struggling opening batsman Zak Crawley from their squad for next month\u2019s first Test against New Zealand at Lord\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s Emilio Gay, one of three uncapped players in a 15-man squad including Hampshire fast bowler Sonny Baker and Somerset wicketkeeper-batsman James Rew, is set to replace Crawley as he is a specialist opener. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile paceman Ollie Robinson, following a two-year exile, is back for the first of a three-Test series.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776909012_441_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Bangladesh v Pakistan Test series from 8\u201312 May and 16\u201320 May, streaming Live and exclusive on FOX SPORTS available on Kayo | New to Kayo? <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/en-AU\/welcome?pg=cricket&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkcricket-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-cri-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Join now and get your first month for just $1 &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crawley endured a dire 2025\/26 tour of Australia, managing a mere 273 runs in 10 innings at 27.30 during the team\u2019s woeful 4-1 Ashes series loss. <\/p>\n<p>And he has found runs hard to come by for Kent in the second division of the County Championship so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time since captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum took charge of the Test team in 2022 that Crawley has been left out of a squad when available. <\/p>\n<p>The England and Wales Cricket Board also announced Wednesday that former Australia batsman Marcus North would be their new national selector. <\/p>\n<p>North joins the ECB from county side Durham, where he has been the director of cricket since October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unfinished Business&#8217;: Gardner on T20 WC | 06:18<\/p>\n<p>England squad for 1st Test against New Zealand at Lord\u2019s, June 4-8<\/p>\n<p>Ben Stokes (capt), Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Sonny Baker, Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Ben Duckett, MatthewFisher, Emilio Gay, James Rew (wkt), Ollie Robinson, Joe Root, Jamie Smith (wkt), Josh Tongue <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have dropped struggling opening batsman Zak Crawley from their squad for next month\u2019s first Test against New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-668531","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\/668531","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=668531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}