{"id":612556,"date":"2026-05-30T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/612556\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T19:59:09","slug":"england-v-new-zealand-mitchell-santner-fit-to-return-in-boost-to-black-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/612556\/","title":{"rendered":"England v New Zealand: Mitchell Santner fit to return in boost to Black Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand have been boosted by the return of all-rounder Mitchell Santner for the Test series against England starting at Lord&#8217;s on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Santner, 34, the Black Caps&#8217; white-ball captain and key spinner, was initially ruled out of the first Test by a shoulder injury suffered last month in the Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand had hoped he would recover for the second or third Tests but he will now join the squad before the first Test next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All-rounder Dean Foxcroft, who received his first call-up as cover, will return home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand beat Ireland by an innings and 79 runs in this week&#8217;s one-off Test in Stormont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cpqp2lxrq33o\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">already have a strong bowling line-up<\/a> featuring seamers Matt Henry, Will O&#8217;Rourke, Kyle Jamieson and Blair Tickner with Santner&#8217;s return a further boost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has taken 78 wickets in his 32 Tests and also made his one Test century against England in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New Zealand squad to play England: Tom Latham (capt), Tom Blundell (wk), Devon Conway, Zak Foulkes, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Will O&#8217;Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Ben Sears (traveling reserve), Nathan Smith, Blair Tickner, Kane Williamson, Will Young<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand have been boosted by the return of all-rounder Mitchell Santner for the Test series against England&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}