Chris Woakes and Bryan Carse will make their first international tests since 2022.
Ben Stokes has been forced to miss England's earliest exam against Pakistan in Multan as he recovers from a broken quadriceps. Harrison ' wound, which occurred two months ago while playing in the Hundred, was confirmed after training on Saturday.
Chris Woakes will play his second international exam in two and a half years, replacing Harrison, while Brydon Carse may make his Examine album. Ollie Pope did captain England for a fifth successive match in Stokes ' presence, having led them to a 2-1 line win over Sri Lanka next month.
" We've taken the decision to lose this one, but I tried my hardest to get myself ready for this first game." I've never quite managed to get game-ready", Stokes said. We've come a long way, but I'm not quite ready to play, despite what we've got coming up and how physically challenging my therapy is actually.
Wilkinson and Peter Sim, England's strength and conditioning coach, did flight runs for the first 45 minutes of the training program. He eventually batted in the baskets, facing roll from Rehan Ahmed and regional net-bowlers as well as throwdowns from England's coaching employees, but is taking a cautious approach to his return.
He will then target the following Check in 10 days ' time. " I've pushed myself very hard", Stokes said. " I've worked really, really hard with the health team to get to where I'm at today. I think I'm farther back than what we expected currently. Look, over the next ten weeks, I'll work just as hard to improve my health.
" Whatever activities you play, you're going to get injury. I'm 33 then, so I've put my body through quite a lot. I've started working incredibly hard over the last two decades: I know that I'm getting older, so it's not through lack of effort. It's just one of those issues where, with what we do, you're going to throw yourself at risk every time you walk out on the area for wounds."
Stokes claimed it was" too much away" to tell if he is accessible for the second Test, but it might only be as a professional batter. That's in my 10-day program from now to that second one, eking ball back into my training. We've had a great plan put up by myself and the skilled guys out here, but I'll get working incredibly hard to try and give myself a great chance of being available."
Two weeks before the first Test, England made their XI announcement after on Saturday. They have picked two consultant spinners, with Jack Leach returning to the side for the first time since January alongside his England team-mate Shoaib Bashir. After impressing during the English summers, peter Atkinson may take his first international test after recovering from a knee niggle.
Olly Stone and his Durham team-mate Matthew Potts, who both played against Sri Lanka next month, were pipped by Carse to lead England's hole harm. Carse, like Potts, impressed in England's current ODI series against Australia but his further pace and better batting have seen him win the battle to become England's second fast bowler.
Having missed most of the summer due to a gambling ban, Carse regularly hit 90mph/145kph during Australia's tour and has impressed England's players in the nets". He's a natural wicket-taker," Joe Root said". He's got those balls in him that, out of nowhere, on the flattest of wickets, you can make something happen … He offers a huge amount to the squad."
Carse, 29, was born and raised in South Africa but qualified for England through his ancestry in 2019. He will become England's sixth Test debutant of the year after Tom Hartley, Bashir, Atkinson, Jamie Smith and Josh Hull, and has been carded to bat at No. 9, just below Atkinson.
England XI: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope ( capt ), 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Jamie Smith (wk ), 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Gus Atkinson, 9 Brydon Carse, 10 Jack Leach, 11 Shoaib Bashir
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