{"id":641979,"date":"2026-06-16T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641979\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:11:05","slug":"england-vs-new-zealand-james-rew-to-make-debut-as-jamie-smith-misses-second-test-for-birth-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641979\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs New Zealand: James Rew to make debut as Jamie Smith misses second Test for birth of child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jamie Smith will miss England&#8217;s second Test against New Zealand following the birth of his daughter, with James Rew coming into the side as a third debutant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wicketkeeper Smith&#8217;s daughter, his second child, was born on Tuesday morning, the day before the Test at The Oval begins on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Somerset&#8217;s Rew, 22, will take the gloves and bat at number seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He will make his Test debut alongside batter Jordan Cox and pace bowler Sonny Baker. The last time England fielded three debutants in the same XI was against South Africa at The Oval in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also means a total of five changes to the XI that won the first Test at Lord&#8217;s by 115 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Smith will miss England&#8217;s second Test against New Zealand following the birth of his daughter, with James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641979","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\/641979","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=641979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}