Ben Stokes faces a bowling exercise evaluation since England named an unchanged 13-man squad to the last Ashes game at The Oval.
Even the all-rounder bowled just 10.5 overs in Australia’s first innings at Old Trafford before being forced off the area with shoulder soreness and didn’t bowl for the rest of the Test.
In case Stokes is not able to bowl, he is expected to perform in the Test as a specialist batsman and England will turn to one of both bowling all-rounders in the squad which missed out in Manchester, together using either Sam Curran or even Chris Woakes coming in.
Among those batsmen would miss out Joe Root and head coach Trevor Bayliss deciding about the make-up of this side after any decision.
England fell to some 185-run defeat at Old Trafford since Australia kept the urn and head to their past international match that was red-ball trailing the show 2-1.
The hosts can draw the string and with Evaluation Championship points available, Root known on his side to turn up for the final Test of the series in London.
Despite England’s batsmen having fought throughout the show, together with Joe Denly having impressed following his promotion into the peak of the sequence in Manchester, the top-order looks set to stay in position.
The 33-year-old created a 53 off 123 balls in the second innings because the hosts fought to rescue Test and is just one of 3 batsmen to make more than 1 half-century from the sequence.
Meanwhile, Jason Roy’s move down to # 4 brought his greatest score in Test cricket since he fought off 67 balls in the second innings at Old Trafford to 31 to him.
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