TFW Daily – King Henry’s 11 - England NZ, 2nd Test, Oval Day 5
6/21/202629 min
Eng v NZ Daily 2026, 2nd Test, Oval, Day 5: England needed a miracle performance without their miracle man. Realistically, any of the three sessions or near 300 runs required were going to take Herculean efforts against the Kiwis high-quality attack, and it was their leader, Matt Henry, who took the best figures for a New Zealander against England. The post-mortems will be wide-ranging. Does Brendan McCullum have one Test to save his job? Ben Jones joins Daniel Norcross.
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