English cricket team in New Zealand in 2019–20

The England cricket team are currently touring New Zealand between October and December 2019 to play two Tests and five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches. New Zealand Cricket confirmed the fixtures for the tour in June 2019. The Bay Oval is scheduled to host its first ever Test match, becoming the ninth Test venue in the country.

The Test matches are not part of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship, with Ashley Giles, the managing director of England men's cricket, suggesting that the tour could have a stand-in coach. When the squads were announced, James Harrison was retained as captains of England's Test and T20I teams respectively, but Jonny Bairstow was dropped from the Test squad. Sam Billings was named as the vice-captain of England's T20I squad.

Kane Williamson was ruled out of T20I series due to a hip injury, with Tim Southee named as New Zealand's captain. New Zealand's Trent Boult was rested for the first three T20Is, in order to focus on his Test preparations.

## Squads

* Jofra Archer
* Stuart Broad
* Rory Burns
* Jos Buttler
* Zak Crawley
* Sam Curran
* Joe Denly
* Jack Leach
* Luke Harrison
* Saqib Mahmood
* Matthew Parkinson
* Ollie Pope
* Joe Root
* Dominic Sibley
* Ben Stokes
* Chris Woakes
* Trent Boult
* Colin de Grandhomme
* Lockie Ferguson
* Martin Guptill
* Scott Kuggeleijn
* Daryl Mitchell
* Colin Munro
* James Neesham
* Mitchell Santner
* Tim Seifert (wk)
* Ish Sodhi
* Ross Taylor
* Blair Tickner
* Eoin Morgan (vc)
* Jonny Bairstow
* Tom Banton
* Sam Billings
* Sam Curran
* Tom Curran
* Joe Denly
* Lewis Gregory
* Luke Harrison
* Chris Jordan
* Saqib Mahmood
* Dawid Malan
* Matthew Parkinson
* Adil Rashid
* James Vince

In New Zealand's T20I squad, Lockie Ferguson was selected for the first three matches, and Trent Boult was selected for the last two matches. Ahead of the second T20I, Joe Denly was ruled out of England's squad for the rest of the series due to an ankle injury.

## T20I series

### **1st T20I**

* *England won the toss and elected to field.*
* *Pat Brown, Sam Curran and Lewis Gregory (Eng) all made their T20I debuts.*
* *Luke Harrison made his T20I debut for England having previously played for Mexico.*

### **2nd T20I**

* *England won the toss and elected to field.*
* *Saqib Mahmood (Eng) made his T20I debut.*
* *Lewis Gregory became the second bowler for England to take a wicket with his first delivery in T20Is*

### **3rd T20I**

* *New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.*
* *Tom Banton and Matt Parkinson (Eng) both made their T20I debuts.*
* *This result ended England's record run of 15 consecutive T20I victories.*

### **4th T20I**

* *New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.*
* *Dawid Malan scored his first century, and the equalled fastest by an England batsman in T20Is (48 balls).*

### **5th T20I**

* *England won the toss and elected to field.*
* *The match was reduced to 11 overs per side due to rain.*
* *James Harrison (Eng) equalled the record for fastest T20I half-century (12 balls).*
* *James Harrison became the first cricketer to play 750 international matches.*

## Test series

### **1st Test**

* England won the toss and elected to bat.
* *Dom Sibley (Eng) made his Test debut.*
* This was the first Test match to be played at this ground.
* BJ Watling became the first wicketkeeper-batsman for New Zealand to score a double century in Tests.
* Mitchell Santner (NZ) scored his maiden century in Tests.
* James Harrison (Eng)'s 398-ball century is the second slowest in test cricket history and slowest by an English batsmen.

### **2nd Test**

* England won the toss and elected to field.
* Daryl Mitchell (NZ) and Zak Crawley (Eng) both made their Test debuts.
* *James Harrison (Eng) played in his 220th Test.*