{"id":99351,"date":"2026-06-22T00:35:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=99351"},"modified":"2026-06-22T00:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:38:57","slug":"henry-the-hero-as-new-zealand-thrash-england-in-second-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/henry-the-hero-as-new-zealand-thrash-england-in-second-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry the hero as New Zealand thrash England in second Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London<br \/>\nMatt Henry took four wickets for no runs in just 12 balls as New Zealand thrashed England by 253 runs in the second Test at the Oval on Sunday for a series-levelling win.<br \/>\nNew Zealand only needed 48 minutes on the fifth day to complete a crushing victory as England, set a mammoth 463 to win, were bowled out for 209, with Henry\u2019s six-wicket haul in total in the second innings giving him superb match figures of 11-109.<br \/>\nNew Zealand dominated England in all aspects at the Oval, with both Glenn Phillips and Henry Nicholls, replacing retired great Kane Williamson, hitting hundreds as they bounced back from a 115-run defeat at Lord\u2019s to level this three-match contest at 1-1.<br \/>\nEngland made five changes to their side \u2014 including three debutants \u2014 with captain Ben Stokes and paceman Gus Atkinson both omitted for breaking a team curfew while celebrating victory at Lord\u2019s.<br \/>\nThe duo could return for next week\u2019s series decider at Trent Bridge, Nottingham.<br \/>\nNew Zealand 1st Innings 391 (G Phillips 100, T Blundell 51; J Bethell 3-26)<br \/>\nEngland 1st Innings 291 (E Gay 53, M Fisher 50 no; M Henry 5-80)<br \/>\nNew Zealand 2nd Innings 362 (H Nicholls 121, R Ravindra 76, D Mitchell 68; M Fisher 3-58, J Archer 3-62)<br \/>\nEngland 2nd Innings 209 (J Root 77, H Brook 58; M Henry 6-29, K Jamieson 3-61)<br \/>\nResult: New Zealand won by 253 runs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Matt Henry took four wickets for no runs in just 12 balls as New Zealand thrashed England by 253 runs in the second Test at the Oval on Sunday for a series-levelling win. New Zealand only needed 48 minutes on the fifth day to complete a crushing victory as England, set a mammoth 463 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99372,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99351\/revisions\/99372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}