England Test squad for New Zealand: Sonny Baker, Emilio Gay, James Rew selected for Lord's opener, big names dropped

Sonny Baker, Emilio Gay and James Rew person each been selected successful England's squad for the archetypal Test lucifer against New Zealand, which starts connected June 4.

After a 4-1 Ashes decision successful Australia, changes were ever going to beryllium made, partially owed to the assignment of Australian Marcus North arsenic the caller nationalist selector.

Long-standing opener Zak Crawley has been dropped from the squad, arsenic has Ollie Pope who mislaid his spot during the Ashes embarrassment.

That has opened the doorway for the likes of Baker, Gay and Rew to travel into contention for a archetypal quality successful the Test arena.

Gay is successful enactment to unfastened the batting aft hitting scores of 128, 159* and 129 among his past 8 innings for Durham.

Emilio Gay has his THIRD 100 of the play pic.twitter.com/CLBlyrKrUO

Hampshire fast-bowler Baker has been costly successful his solitary one-day and T20 planetary appearances without taking a wicket.

However, clip with England Lions and 14 wickets crossed 4 first-class matches successful 2026 person paved the mode for his inclusion.

Wicket-keeper Rew whitethorn miss retired connected an contiguous debut, but the 22-year-old already has 12 centuries and an mean of 41.48 from 104 innings successful first-class cricket.

Robinson returns to England squad

There is besides the callback of Ollie Robinson aft a two-year absence. Despite 76 wickets and an mean of 22.92 successful Tests, backmost issues outgo him his spot successful 2024.

Reham Ahmed and Shoain Bashir are the 2 rotation bowlers successful the squad, portion Matthew Fisher returns bidding to adhd to his solitary Test quality from March 2022.

England squad successful full:

Ben Stokes, Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Sonny Baker, Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Harry Brook, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Emilio Gay, James Rew, Ollie Robinson, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue