As Joe Root and co toil against New Zealand, the absence of Rehan Ahmed makes for another damning indictment on this management group

With Ben Stokes absent, Root saw his side make a decent start to the second Test against New Zealand.

His side may have got the best of the first day of the second Test, but it lacked the verve that their talismanic skipper brings

England (222/6) trail New Zealand (391) by 169 runs: A bad dropped catch, wayward bowling and squandered starts with the bat allowed New Zealand to assert their ascendancy at the…

As Joe Root and co toil against New Zealand, the absence of Rehan Ahmed makes for another damning indictment on this management group