The New Zealand cricket team toured England in June 2026 to play the England cricket team. The tour consisted of three Test matches. The Test series formed part of the 2025–2027 ICC World Test Championship. In July 2025, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed the fixtures for the tour as part of the 2026 home international season.
England had won the Crowe–Thorpe Trophy after defeating New Zealand 2–1 in the previous series in 2024–25. However, this time New Zealand won the series by 2–1 to win the trophy for the first time.
This was also the last Test series of Kane Williamson and Ben Stokes before their retirements from international cricket.
Squads Ben Stokes (c) Joe Root (c) Harry Brook (vc) Rehan Ahmed Jofra Archer Gus Atkinson Sonny Baker Shoaib Bashir Jacob Bethell Jordan Cox (wk) Henry Crocombe Ben Duckett Matthew Fisher Emilio Gay James Rew (wk) Ollie Robinson Jamie Smith (wk) Josh Tongue Tom Latham (c) Tom Blundell (wk) Devon Conway Zak Foulkes Dean Foxcroft Matt Henry Kyle Jamieson Daryl Mitchell Henry Nicholls Will O'Rourke Glenn Phillips Rachin Ravindra Mitchell Santner Ben Sears Nathan Smith Blair Tickner Kane Williamson Will Young
England named a 15-man squad for the first Test, with Jofra Archer and Jordan Cox unavailable, having yet to return to England from the recently concluded 2026 Indian Premier League season. On 10 June, England named their 15-man squad for the second Test, with Archer and Cox replacing Gus Atkinson and regular captain Ben Stokes, both of whom were suspended following a nightclub incident on 8 June, while Joe Root was appointed interim captain of the team in Stokes' absence. Henry Crocombe was called into the England Test squad as cover for Ollie Robinson due to Robinson's knee soreness.
Test series 1st Test
2nd Test
3rd Test
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References
External links Series home at ESPNcricinfo