{"id":649412,"date":"2026-06-20T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649412\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:01:09","slug":"england-vs-new-zealand-joe-root-stands-between-hosts-and-defeat-at-the-oval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/649412\/","title":{"rendered":"England vs New Zealand: Joe Root stands between hosts and defeat at The Oval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Second Rothesay Test, The Kia Oval (day four of five)<\/p>\n

New Zealand 391 (Phillips 100) & 362 (Nicholls 121, Ravindra 76, Mitchell 68)<\/p>\n

England 291 (Gay 53, Fisher 50*; Henry 5-80) & 182-5 (Root 75*, Brook 58; Jamieson 3-37)<\/p>\n

England require 281 more runs, New Zealand need five wickets<\/p>\n

Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n

Joe Root stands between England and defeat in the second Test against New Zealand on a day when absent captain Ben Stokes made 95 for Durham.<\/p>\n

Set a world record 463 to win at The Oval, England were reeling at 40-3 and in danger of not seeing out the fourth day.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Stokes, unavailable for this Test pending an investigation into an incident at a London nightclub, was making his highest score in any cricket since a century in the fourth Test against India almost a year ago.<\/p>\n

But with the exiled skipper at the crease 275 miles away, stand-in captain Root began a typically masterful unbeaten 75 to take England’s rearguard into the final day.<\/p>\n

Root received a standing ovation on only two as he became the second man after Indian great Sachin Tendulkar to reach 14,000 Test runs.<\/p>\n

He shared a thrilling stand of 97 with Harry Brook, the vice-captain largely aggressive for his 58. Both Root and Brook overturned being given lbw to Matt Henry, who eventually had Brook held at slip.<\/p>\n

James Rew erased any lingering fears of a four-day finish, only to be lbw on review to Kyle Jamieson in the dying moments, leaving England 182-5 and New Zealand one wicket from the tail.<\/p>\n

England hold a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Second Rothesay Test, The Kia Oval (day four of five) New Zealand 391 (Phillips 100) & 362 (Nicholls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-649412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649412","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=649412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}