Tourists procure two adjustments for 2nd Multan Test with streak expected to play better role
Ben Stokes is fit to play the 2nd Multan Test • Associated Press
Ben Stokes will return to captain England in Multan this week after two months sidelined with a torn hamstring. Stokes has stepped up his recovery previously week and can replace Chris Woakes in a single in every of two England adjustments from the principle Test, with Matthew Potts also coming in for the rested Gus Atkinson.
England are braced for a lower-scoring 2nd Test, with the match attach to be played on the identical strip because the one extinct for their innings catch final week. The pitch has been carefully watered but has dried out in the solar all the plot by two insist days, and the extinct floor might maybe perchance bring every groups’ spinners into the game.
Stokes has been bowling in practising and will seemingly be England’s third seam option in the relieve of Potts and Brydon Carse, his Durham team-mates. “It’ll be a mountainous week for the spinners,” James Anderson, England’s lickety-split-bowling manual, acknowledged on Sunday. “I originate no longer know about his fat fragment… but he’s peaceful contributing a slightly decent amount with the ball.”
England’s seamers all had a heavy workload in the principle Test, despite their innings catch: Atkinson bowled 39 overs, Carse 38 and Woakes 35. Atkinson and Woakes every played all six Tests of England’s house summer season and were rested, with a instant turnaround between fits, while Carse desires to be great fresher after spending June, July and August serving a ban.
Ben Duckett retains his narrate at the tip of the expose after bettering from a dislocated thumb sustained on the 2nd night time of the principle Test, while Jamie Smith will mosey relieve the total style down to No. 7 to enable Stokes to return in his favoured role at No. 6.
England possess caught with the identical spinners – Jack Leach and Shoaib Bashir – despite Bashir’s silent first Test, in which he returned match figures of 1 for 156. Rehan Ahmed is the bogus streak option of their squad, while the Warwickshire and England Under-19s legspinner Tazeem Ali is on vacation in Pakistan and has been bowling in the nets this week.
England XI: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Jamie Smith (wk), 8 Brydon Carse, 9 Matthew Potts, 10 Jack Leach, 11 Shoaib Bashir
Matt Curler is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. @mroller98
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