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Cameron Ponsonby

England bowlers ‘licking their lips’ over prospect of green pitch for second New Zealand Test

England have named an unchanged side for the Second Test in New Zealand, as they look to record a seventh successive victory.

The visitors had been considering a late change to their XI, after monitoring the fitness of seam bowlers Ollie Robinson, James Anderson and Stuart Broad, with only a five-day gap between the end of their 267-run win in Mount Maunganui and the start of the Wellington Test.

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