Uncapped Durham wicketkeeper Ollie Robinson has been referred to as as much as the England squad for his or her tour of New Zealand following an harm to Jordan Cox.
Robinson, 25, will arrive on Saturday and could possibly be in line for his debut within the second Check in Wellington subsequent week.
Cox, who was resulting from make his personal debut in Thursday’s first Check in Christchurch, suffered a damaged thumb batting within the nets throughout England’s warm-up match in Queenstown on the weekend.
Because of this, Ollie Pope is standing-in behind the stumps in the course of the first Check, with 21-year-old Jacob Bethell making his debut and batting at quantity three.
Essex’s Cox was in line for his likelihood instead of first-choice keeper Jamie Smith, who’s lacking the tour on paternity depart.
However England opted in opposition to one other specialist keeper of their squad, resulting in Pope holding in a Check for the fourth time and Bethell’s bow.
Like Cox, Robinson started his profession at Kent, however moved north for the 2023 season so as to get extra probabilities behind the stumps. He has since averaged 53 in first-class cricket for Durham, the place he’s a team-mate of England captain Ben Stokes.
He has beforehand toured Australia, India and Sri Lanka with England Lions.
Robinson will get his journey beneath manner after a delay to resume his passport. In arriving in Christchurch on the third day of the primary Check, he may have nearly every week to acclimatise earlier than the second Check begins on Friday.
