Magnificent Henry bowls New Zealand to dominant win over England in second Test

[p]Stokes was dropped for breaching a team curfew following his side's win in the series opener at Lord's.[/p][p][b]"Ben will be back. He'll be back as captain,"[/b] said [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/england/UJC5mtAU/"]England[/a] head coach Brendon McCullum after the match.[/p][p]Fast-medium bowler Henry's sensational spell of four wickets for no runs in 12 balls saw England, who were 182-5 overnight, collapse to 192-9.[/p][p]Henry finished the match by bowling Jordan Cox as England, who [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/cricket/england-UJC5mtAU/new-zealand-G6PWlrQB/?mid=bcBQ09rn"]were chasing a record-breaking 463 to win[/a], were dismissed for 209.[/p][embed guid="423db007-cf0d-4103-9993-3e13b96460b3" url="https://x.com/englandcricket/status/2068649582414716969" social-type="twitter" /][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/new-zealand/G6PWlrQB/"]New Zealand[/a] needed just 48 minutes play on Sunday's fifth day at the Oval to square the three-match series at 1-1 ahead of next week's decider in Nottingham.[/p][p]Henry's superb second-innings return of 6-29, allied to his five-wicket haul in England's first-innings 5-80, gave him overall figures of 11-109.[/p][p]Henry's maiden 10-wicket haul in a Test was also the best by any New Zealand bowler against England, surpassing Dion Nash's 11-169 at Lord's back in 1994.[/p][p][b]"I probably didn't expect things to unfold like that today,"[/b] said Henry, the player of the match.[/p][p][b]"With the ball, we talked about being relentless. We stuck at it, and it was nice to get the rewards."[/b][/p][p]New Zealand captain Tom Latham added: [b]"We thought hitting the top of off stump repetitively was the way to go on this surface, and Matt Henry is a good exponent of that.[/b][/p][p][b]"He built pressure through dot balls and also wickets. He has been a spearhead for some time."[/b][/p][embed guid="ccfcf547-0942-4f64-8a7c-00a70a81bf94" url="https://x.com/BLACKCAPS/status/2068682220412236196" social-type="twitter" /][p]Shortly before play started on Sunday, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced that both Stokes and Gus Atkinson had been withdrawn from county action with Durham and Surrey, respectively.[/p][p]It was the clearest hint that the duo would be recalled to Test-match duty at Trent Bridge after being stood down this week for breaching a team curfew following England's 115-run win in the first Test at Lord's earlier this month.[/p][p]England resumed all but beaten at 182-5, needing a further 281 runs to reach what would have been a record-breaking target.[/p][p]The highest winning fourth-innings total in 149 years of Test cricket is West Indies' 418-7 against Australia at St John's in 2003.[/p][p]England's hopes of an improbable win rested with stand-in captain Joe Root, who was 75 not out overnight after joining India great Sachin Tendulkar as the only batsman to have made 14,000 Test runs.[/p][p]But Root had added just two runs to his score when he was plumb lbw to Henry. With a rejigged England side showing five changes, including three debutants, from the one that Stokes led at Lord's, a lengthy tail was exposed by the New Zealand spearhead.[/p][p][b]"Credit to New Zealand, who I thought played very well,"[/b] said Root.[/p][p][b]"There were a number of occasions when the game was in the balance, and they won the crucial moments. It is 1-1 and still everything to play for at Trent Bridge.[/b][/p][p][b]"We just have to do things better for longer. Be smarter."[/b][/p][embed guid="67f2d2f3-1695-437f-82bc-14a2b3f3db30" url="https://x.com/BLACKCAPS/status/2068690005258637735" social-type="twitter" /][p]Two balls after Root's exit, the 34-year-old Henry clean bowled Jofra Archer for a duck, with a delivery that kept low before smashing into the stumps.[/p][p]New batsman Matthew Fisher had made a maiden Test fifty in the first innings, but on Sunday, he was clean bowled for nought by Henry.[/p][p]With the next ball, the paceman had new batsman Josh Tongue edging to Daryl Mitchell in the slips for a golden duck, with England on the brink at 192-9.[/p][p]A double-wicket maiden (a bowler removing two batsmen in the same over without conceding a run) is rare in Test cricket, but Henry, hampered by back spasms at Lord's, now had two in a row.[/p][p]The end was not long in coming as Henry bowled Cox to seal an emphatic victory, which saw both New Zealand all-rounder Glenn Phillips and Henry Nicholls, who replaced retired great Kane Williamson, hit hundreds.[/p]