England vs New Zealand: England wrap up thumping victory as pitch makes headlines in Lord's Test
Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
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4.4 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Mel Jones and Mark Butcher discuss England's 115 run victory over New Zealand in the first Test at Lord's on a much-criticised pitch that was arduous for batting.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall. |
| 0:04.0 | And yes, we will build the wall. |
| 0:07.0 | The ladies not for turning. |
| 0:09.7 | It's going to be a U-turn. |
| 0:10.6 | It's a plightful in a U-turn from Labour. |
| 0:12.2 | South Rica about the U-turn. |
| 0:13.7 | Times change, but for over 240 years, |
| 0:17.1 | the Times and Sunday Times have been on the ground, |
| 0:20.4 | delivering in-depth, trusted reporting, |
| 0:22.6 | so you can understand what's really going on. |
| 0:26.5 | Times change. The Times remains. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah, gone. Go on. He gets its very tail ending. |
| 0:36.0 | An epic way to go to a test match 100. |
| 0:39.3 | The London sphere the first-time win is the most remarkable thing you'll probably ever see in cricket. |
| 0:45.3 | Six hundred and four and final test wicket that's new aboard. |
| 0:49.3 | It's ended when the T20 World Cup. |
| 0:53.3 | England's captain Ben Stokes while he is there, England have hope. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, the winter of discontent has been replaced by a big win by England by 143 runs here at Lords. |
| 1:09.3 | It's the Daily Review, and we only need Butch today. Game over. |
| 1:14.8 | Crowd reasonably happy. They would have liked to have seen a little bit more action. But |
| 1:19.4 | how do you surmise that last day's play? Well, I mean, let's start with today. |
| 1:24.8 | England wrapped it up. I think everybody expected that they probably would. New Zealand |
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