The New Zealand national cricket team was in England from 4 May to 27 June 2013 for a tour consisting of two Test matches, three One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 International matches. The New Zealand team also competed in the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy between the ODI series and T20I series. The tour followed England's tour of New Zealand two months earlier.

Before the tour, there were fears that a number of New Zealand players might have been unavailable for the start of the tour due to a schedule overlap with the 2013 Indian Premier League. The contract between New Zealand Cricket and the players' association entitles the players to five weeks of IPL competition as New Zealand cricketers earn more money from IPL play than from international play for New Zealand Cricket.

Squads TestsODIsT20Is Alastair Cook (c) James Anderson Jonny Bairstow (wk) Ian Bell Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Nick Compton Steven Finn Matt Prior (wk) Joe Root Graeme Swann Jonathan Trott Brendon McCullum (c & wk) Trent Boult Doug Bracewell Dean Brownlie Peter Fulton Mark Gillespie Martin Guptill Tom Latham (wk) Bruce Martin Hamish Rutherford Tim Southee Ross Taylor Neil Wagner BJ Watling (wk) Kane Williamson Alastair Cook (c) James Anderson Jonny Bairstow (wk) Ian Bell Ravi Bopara Tim Bresnan Stuart Broad Jos Buttler (wk) Jade Dernbach Steven Finn Eoin Morgan Boyd Rankin Joe Root Graeme Swann James Tredwell Jonathan Trott Chris Woakes Brendon McCullum (c & wk) Trent Boult Doug Bracewell Grant Elliott Andrew Ellis James Franklin Martin Guptill Mitchell McClenaghan Nathan McCullum Kyle Mills Colin Munro Luke Ronchi (wk) Tim Southee Ross Taylor Daniel Vettori Kane WilliamsonEoin Morgan (c) Gary Ballance Ravi Bopara Danny Briggs Jos Buttler (wk) Jade Dernbach Alex Hales Michael Lumb Kevin Pietersen Boyd Rankin Ben Stokes James Tredwell Chris Woakes Luke WrightBrendon McCullum (c) Corey Anderson Doug Bracewell Ian Butler James Franklin Martin Guptill Ronnie Hira Tom Latham (wk) Mitchell McClenaghan Nathan McCullum Kyle Mills Colin Munro Hamish Rutherford Ross Taylor

Tour matches

First-class: Derbyshire v New Zealanders

First-class: England Lions v New Zealanders

T20: Kent Spitfires v New Zealanders

Test series

1st Test

The 1st Test started slowly, with England scoring just 160 runs in the 80 overs that were managed before rain curtailed the day's play. None of the four wickets taken during the day were for more than 40 runs, leaving Joe Root (25) and Jonny Bairstow (3) at the crease overnight. The pair added another 32 runs at the start of day 2 before the loss of Root's wicket in the 16th over of the day brought about a batting collapse; England went from 192/5 to 232 all out in the space of just under 18 overs, and none of the last five batsmen reached double figures.

James Anderson gave England a chance at a perfect response by taking the wickets of both New Zealand openers to join Ian Botham, Bob Willis and Fred Trueman as one of four English bowlers to have taken 300 Test wickets. New Zealand fought back through top-scorer Ross Taylor, who hit a fast-paced 66 off 72 balls before being trapped LBW to Anderson, and Kane Williamson, who ended the day unbeaten on 44. Dean Brownlie's was the last wicket of the day to fall, bringing captain Brendon McCullum to the crease with New Zealand on 153/4 at the close of play. However, McCullum lasted just five balls the following morning, caught behind for 2 runs off the bowling of Stuart Broad. It was the wicket of Williamson that spelled New Zealand's downfall, though, the last four wickets falling for 30 runs in fewer than 10 overs. Anderson's wicket of Bruce Martin gave him his fourth Test five-wicket haul at Lord's.

With a 25-run lead, England knew they would need to open up a decent margin over New Zealand in their second innings to take the match away from the tourists. Despite the loss of both captain Alastair Cook and Nick Compton in the first 10 overs, England started well, as Jonathan Trott and Joe Root built a third-wicket partnership of 123, the only century partnership in the match. However, the loss of Root for 71 with the last ball of the 50th over was the beginning of the end. Trott achieved his half-century in the following over, but Bairstow's wicket fell soon after, followed by Matt Prior, who picked up a pair off Tim Southee. Trott was out himself two overs before the close of play, and England finished on 180/6. On the fourth morning, Southee went on to tear through the English lower order, which included an out-of-sorts Ian Bell, who had spent most of the previous day recovering from flu-like symptoms. England were eventually all out for 213 in just 68.3 overs, despite having been 159/2 in the 50th. Only Stuart Broad showed any resistance, scoring an unbeaten 26, and it was a sign of things to come.

New Zealand were set a target of 239 for victory, and although that would have made it the highest-scoring innings in the match, they had five sessions in which to do it. However, what followed was a master-class in bowling from Broad, who took seven wickets for 44 runs in just 11 overs – his best Test figures – as New Zealand were bowled out for 68, their sixth-lowest score in Tests against England. Only BJ Watling and Neil Wagner managed to make it into double figures, theirs being two of the three wickets that Broad did not manage to take. Watling was not helped by a knee injury he had picked up on day 3 that meant McCullum had to keep wicket for the rest of the innings, but he nevertheless came out to bat, only to be caught in the slips off Anderson for 13. Wagner's wicket was the last to fall; it looked as though he would be caught after hitting the ball straight up in the air to long leg, but the fielder missed the catch. In the confusion that followed, the ball was thrown back to Anderson at the bowler's end with Wagner stranded mid-pitch in the middle of his second run. With that, the day's play concluded with 14 wickets in less than two sessions and England went 1–0 up in the two-match series.

2nd Test

New Zealand made a couple of forced changes for the second Test, with Brendon McCullum keeping wicket in place of the injured BJ Watling, Martin Guptill filling Watling's role with the bat, while Doug Bracewell came in for spinner Bruce Martin to form a four-man seam attack. The first day was completely washed out by rain, which, although there were some breaks in the cloud, was never away long enough to allow the toss to be made. With play abandoned before 4 p.m., the match was effectively turned into a four-day game. After losing Compton (1) early on day 2, England recovered well, with Cook and Trott putting on another 50 runs before both were dismissed in consecutive balls in the last two overs before lunch; however, this only brought Joe Root to the crease, and he proceeded to add 104 more runs for his maiden Test century, becoming the first Yorkshireman to do so at Headingley. Root was out to the first delivery with the new ball, but not before he and fellow Yorkshireman Jonny Bairstow had added 124 for the fifth wicket. Bairstow (64) went next, followed by Broad for a second-ball duck, but Prior and Swann combined to get England to 337/7 by the end of the day. England's tail only lasted another nine overs on day 3, enough to round the innings off for 354 runs. Trent Boult took the last two wickets of Steven Finn (6) and Anderson (0) to complete a five-wicket haul.

New Zealand started their response well, Fulton and Rutherford putting on 55 runs for the opening wicket; however, the introduction of Finn into the bowling attack ended the openers' resistance shortly before the lunch break. New Zealand then quickly went from 62/2 to 122/9, as Swann was able to exploit the rough patches left by the New Zealand bowlers' foot marks to take four wickets. Wagner and Boult were able to restore some respectability to the scorecard with a partnership of 52, including Boult hitting Swann for three consecutive sixes in one over. By the time New Zealand were all out, they had reached a total of 174 – still 180 runs behind, not enough to reach the follow-on target (the margin reduced to 150 runs due to the shortened match). However, despite his bowlers' dominance with ball in hand, England captain Alastair Cook elected not to enforce the follow-on and England came out to bat again, much to the surprise of some commentators.

The England openers were in stark contrast to one another as the innings began; as Cook reached his 30th Test half-century off just 63 balls, Compton was stranded on 7 runs for 22 balls before getting out off a bat-pad to part-time spinner Kane Williamson. After two centuries in a row in New Zealand, it was Compton's sixth consecutive Test innings in which he had failed to reach 20 runs. Cook (88*) and Trott (11*) then batted out the rest of the day to get England to 116/1 at the close. The pair continued on the morning of the fourth day, reaching a total of 134 for the second wicket (the biggest partnership of the series) before Cook was out caught to Williamson for 130 – his 25th Test hundred. Trott himself reached 76 before edging a wide ball from Wagner to a diving McCullum, and Root and Bairstow each added quarter-centuries en route to a declaration at 287/5.

With that, England's lead was set at 467, necessitating a record-breaking innings from New Zealand if they were to win the game. Realistically, with heavy weather expected on the final day, their only hope was to hold out for a draw. However, they still had the best part of five sessions to negotiate to do so, and the loss of Fulton (5) to Broad in the eighth over was not the best of starts. Swann then claimed the wickets of Williamson (3) and Rutherford (42) before the tea break. New Zealand lost three more before the end of the day; Brownlie (25) went first to Finn after a 79-run stand with Taylor, who made a valuable 70 before he and Guptill were dismissed by Swann as the day drew to a close with New Zealand still 309 behind on 158, with just four wickets in hand. The weather on the final day was as expected, with rain delaying the start by 45 minutes. It was only delaying the inevitable, however, as Broad caught McCullum off his own bowling in the third full over of the day, and Swann broke up a 56-run partnership between Southee and Bracewell, tempting Southee into an edge to slip for his 15th Test five-for before another bout of rain forced an early lunch. Swann got his 10th wicket of the match shortly after the resumption of play, dismissing Bracewell for 19, before Anderson wrapped up the victory and the series with the wicket of Boult for a 24-ball duck.

ODI series

1st ODI

England went into the 1st ODI missing two of their four-man bowling attack, with Stuart Broad (knee) and Finn (shin) ruled out through injury. Tim Bresnan and Jade Dernbach took their places in the side, Dernbach only having been called up to the squad the previous day as cover for Bresnan. New Zealand were also affected by injury, as Trent Boult was put out of action by a torn side muscle.