"Mitch had a full scan on his knee, which he landed on when he took that catch in the last game at the Ageas Bowl," New Zealand's head coach Gary Stead said.
Kane Williamson was confirmed as a squad member this week after making a quicker-than-expected recovery from a ruptured ACL at the 2023 Indian Premier League (IPL)
During the T20I and ODI tour of England, Williamson will continue his recovery from knee surgery in the hope that he will be ready to be selected for the World Cup in less than a month
Experienced left-armer Trent Boult and fellow pacer Kyle Jamieson return to New Zealand's squad ahead of the World Cup, with the Black Caps to take on the 2019 champions in a five-match series that will form a vital warm-up ahead of this year's tournament.
The New Zealand batter has been sidelined for a while with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his right knee but is back hitting balls in the nets as he makes progress in his recovery.
First appointed for a two-year term in late 2018, Stead had his contract renewed in 2020 until the end of the upcoming ICC Cricket World Cup in India, and will now stay on until the conclusion of the current World Test Championship cycle, in June 2025,
Milne's elevation to the list comes off the back of his most productive international season, in which he appeared 16 times for the Blackcaps (11 T20Is and five ODIs) claiming 24 wickets at an average of 24, including a career-best 5-26 in the second T20I against Sri Lanka, the third best T2
Kane Williamson might still travel to India for the ODI World Cup later this year, with team management keen to bring the injured batter as a mentor. Simultaneously, New Zealand head coach Gary Stead has declined to rule Williamson out of the World Cup as a player.
"The standard rehabilitation timelines mean that Williamson is now unlikely to be fit and available for selection at this year's ICC ODI Cricket World Cup in India," the statement from New Zealand Cricket read.