The English team, which has recently won the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup, although by controversial means will now be facing the team which was wronged in the finals of the ICC World Cup, according to a lot of people. However, the World Cup is a passed cloud now and New Zealand vs England Schedule 2019 has already been finalized where the Kiwis will face the English in 5 T20I matches and 2 Tests. Although New Zealand has not finalized its team for the series yet, England is all set to take on them with a strong squad, different for both T20I and Test series.
The English team is well aware that they will be playing in similar conditions but in an opposite location, with New Zealand being 12 hours ahead of the British time, and being in the southern hemisphere which has its own advantages and disadvantages as fast as cricket is concerned. However, it is a fact that New Zealand will try to use the Wind as well as the Pitch factor completely in the matches of the series. The fast bowlers will be an important weapon for the English teams — this can be confirmed by following the Live Cricket Score of the series.
The English team has brought in a 15-member squad for the Test series and 7 of them are fast bowlers. Now, the pitches in New Zealand are not going to give them much bounce as in Australia, but a considerable skidding is caused by the green cover on the pitches. This skidding is surely going to benefit the pace and seam dominate attack that the English team is planning to use against New Zealand — the team combination says that at least. The English team has Chris Woakes, Ben Stokes, Saqib Mahmood, Rory Burns, Stuart Broad, and Jofra Archer as the Right-handed fast bowlers, which is indeed a huge number on a single squad.
The English team has Sam Curran as the only Left-arm fast bowler whereas Jack Leach is the only full-time spinner in the team. The conditions in New Zealand always have high-velocity winds blowing across the country almost all the time. Hence, the swinging of the ball would be eased a lot for these fast bowlers. Add to it the home-like conditions in which the English have played all their life and England can easily dominate New Zealand in the series. However, The Kiwis also have a stronghold on the home conditions and they know how to tackle the conditions — small-sized ground is a remedy for swinging pitches. One good stroke and the ball won’t land inside the boundary line. Therefore, the English bowlers will only have to find the correct line and length of their deliveries and rest all would be taken care of by the weather conditions alone.
But one thing is for sure that England will need time to adjust to their opposite time zones and summer conditions as they will be traveling from a 10 degree Celsius temperature zone to a 25 degrees Celsius zone and the body will take time to adapt for sure.
