{"id":248844,"date":"2026-06-17T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/england-v-new-zealand-second-mens-test-day-one-as-it-happened\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:53:28","slug":"england-v-new-zealand-second-mens-test-day-one-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/england-v-new-zealand-second-mens-test-day-one-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"England v New Zealand: second men\u2019s Test, day one \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s increasingly hard to say what\u2019s going on behind those shade<\/strong>s. The man\u2019s the Anna Wintour of the wicket. That eyewear makes it impossible to know what he\u2019s thinking. It\u2019s been nine days since Ben Stokes was caught breaking the England team curfew at a nightclub on the Kings Road<\/a>, and still no one really knows what\u2019s going on, or exactly what\u2019s gone wrong. The Cricket Regulator is investigating, but it is slower than molasses in January. There doesn\u2019t seem to be a good reason why the ECB\u2019s own report is dragging on so long. The one clear point is that neither McCullum, nor his boss, Rob Key, wanted to offer Stokes their backing as captain.<\/p>\n

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