{"id":737890,"date":"2026-06-15T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737890\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T10:34:08","slug":"england-face-more-selection-upheaval-for-second-test-after-robinson-ruled-out-england-v-new-zealand-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737890\/","title":{"rendered":"England face more selection upheaval for second Test after Robinson ruled out | England v New Zealand 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Seamer Ollie Robinson, whose performance guided England to victory in the first test against New \u2060Zealand, will \u2060miss \u200bthe second match due to a sore right knee, the England and Wales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/cricket\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cricket<\/a> Board, confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Playing his first test in more than two years, Robinson \u2060took seven wickets including five in the \u200bfirst innings to be named player of the match as \u200cEngland won \u200cby 115 runs on a difficult wicket at \u200cLord\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 32-year-old experienced knee soreness after a training session on Friday and underwent a scan the following day, with the ECB calling up uncapped Henry Crocombe as \u200ccover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cRobinson will remain with the squad and undergo rehab work on his \u200bknee ahead of the third test,\u201d the ECB added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The second match of the three-test series begins at The Oval on Wednesday. \u2060England are already without regular captain Ben Stokes \u200band \u200bbowler Gus Atkinson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The \u200bpair were left out of the \u200bsecond test \u200cfollowing an \u200binvestigation \u200binto an incident in a London nightclub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seamer Ollie Robinson, whose performance guided England to victory in the first test against New \u2060Zealand, will \u2060miss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-737890","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\/737890","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=737890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}