Broad returns for New Zealand Test

Pace bowler Stuart Broad will return for England for the first Test in their two-match series against New Zealand which starts in Mount Maunganui today. Broad, 36, was absent from head coach Brendon McCullum’s team for England’s 3-0 series win over Pakistan in December following the birth of his daughter. He joins James Anderson and Ollie Robinson in England’s pace attack. The match is going ahead despite a state of emergency being declared in New Zealand due to Cyclone Gabrille, which has brought widespread flooding, landslides and forced evacuations in the North Island.