- England gained the opening Check at Lord’s as Jimmy Anderson bowed out
- Mark Wooden will change him in the one change to England’s XI at Trent Bridge
- Victory in Nottingham would seal a collection win for Ben Stokes’s aspect
England have recalled Mark Wooden for Thursday’s second Check in opposition to West Indies at Trent Bridge following the retirement of Jimmy Anderson.
Wooden’s choice means there can be no debut for Nottinghamshire fast Dillon Pennington, with the administration eager to hit the vacationers with the tempo of Wooden and Gus Atkinson, who took 12 wickets on debut at Lord’s final week.
The supply of captain Ben Stokes to bowl as soon as extra after knee surgical procedure has hastened the return of Wooden, who can be utilized extra simply briefly bursts in an assault containing 5 frontline bowlers fairly than 4.
Zak Crawley, in the meantime, has performed down issues about his failure to show fifties into tons of, and insisted he has just one purpose: ‘To win extra video games for England.’
The 76 he made in England’s innings win at Lord’s was his fifth rating within the seventies in his final 12 innings, but he nonetheless boasts simply 4 tons of from 45 matches and a modest common of 33.
Mark Wooden has been named in England’s XI to face West Indies at Trent Bridge
He replaces Jimmy Anderson following his worldwide retirement final week
A win for Ben Stokes’s aspect would wrap up a collection win with a Check to spare
In the meantime, opening batter Zak Crawley has insisted he isn’t involved about not changing fifties into tons of over the past 12 months
However solely Joe Root has scored extra Check runs within the Bazball period than Crawley’s 1,600, whereas the declare made by head coach Brendon McCullum two years in the past that Crawley was ‘by no means going to be a constant kind of cricketer’ has been belied by a string of begins: for the reason that starting of final summer season, he has been dismissed in single figures solely 3 times out of twenty-two.
‘The common actually doesn’t hassle me,’ stated Crawley forward of Thursday’s second Check at Trent Bridge. ‘However I’d wish to win extra video games for England. I’ve performed some actually good knocks, however that’s my fundamental purpose: what number of match-winning performances can I get for my workforce? I most likely haven’t gained that many video games.
‘I’ve actually by no means checked out my common and gone: “Oh, I hope I can get it increased.” England is a fairly powerful place to open, and with half your video games right here. I don’t get caught up in issues like that, in any other case I’ll get fairly down myself.’
‘I received 76 final week and we gained, so I used to be proud of that. If I’d received 76 and we’d misplaced, I’d have questioned myself whether or not I may have gotten extra.’
England workforce: 1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Harry Brook, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Jamie Smith (wkt), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Gus Atkinson, 10 Mark Wooden, 11 Shoaib Bashir.
