England have announced their test squad to face New Zealand this summer with our "red ball reset" in full operation.

A conservative approach has been taken with many of the regulars keeping their place in the team that has only won 1 in it's last 17 games. Ollie Pope will move to 3 and Jonny Bairstow will bat at 5.

The 13-man squad was selected by Key, McCullum, Stokes, Mo Bobat (Performance Director), James Taylor (Head Scout) and David Court (Player ID Lead).

Test Team

Ben Stokes (Durham) captain
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Foakes (Surrey)
Jack Leach (Somerset)
Alex Lees (Durham)
Craig Overton (Somerset)
Matthew Potts (Durham)
Ollie Pope (Surrey)
Joe Root (Yorkshire)

England are without 8 front line bowlers through injury as well as Dan Lawrence.

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