{"id":768149,"date":"2026-06-29T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768149\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:53:13","slug":"abject-england-end-stokes-era-with-rare-home-series-defeat-by-new-zealand-england-v-new-zealand-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/768149\/","title":{"rendered":"Abject England end Stokes era with rare home series defeat by New Zealand | England v New Zealand 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand won a Test series in England for the fourth time by wrapping up a 160-run victory in the third Test at Trent Bridge on Monday, bringing an end to the international career of England\u2019s captain, Ben Stokes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resuming on 103 for four and chasing an unlikely 373 to win, England were dismissed for 212 soon after lunch on day five as New Zealand clinched the series 2-1.<\/p>\n

The New Zealanders\u2019 other series wins on English soil were in 1986, 1999 and in 2021 \u2014 the latter being in a two-match series.<\/p>\n

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Stokes announced on Sunday he would be stepping down as England captain after four years after this Test, and also retiring from the international game after 15 years with the national team. He was dismissed for 30 late on Sunday after opening the batting.<\/p>\n

It was England\u2019s first defeat in a home series of three or more Tests since 2012. They have lost seven of their last nine Tests, a streak that piles the pressure on the leadership team of the coach Brendon McCullum<\/a> and director of cricket Rob Key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand won a Test series in England for the fourth time by wrapping up a 160-run victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-768149","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\/768149","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=768149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}