England have added Mark Wooden to their squad for the second Check towards West Indies at Trent Bridge on Thursday, the 34-year-old Durham quick bowler filling the place vacated by the retired Jimmy Anderson.
The decision-up pits Wooden right into a three-way battle for a single vacant seamer spot, alongside his county teammate Matt Potts and Nottinghamshire’s uncapped 25-year-old, Dillon Pennington.
That’s assuming Gus Atkinson retains his place after taking 12 wickets on debut within the opening Check and that England proceed to choose a spinner.
Shoaib Bashir was within the aspect at Lord’s, although such was the success of the seam assault he didn’t bowl a ball, and in England’s solely innings was but to attain having confronted 17 balls when he was run out by Mikyle Louis.
England received the primary of three Assessments on Friday by an innings and 114 runs. The third Check at Edgbaston begins on 26 July.
England males’s Check squad: Ben Stokes (Durham, c), Gus Atkinson (Surrey), Shoaib Bashir (Somerset), Harry Brook (Yorkshire), Zak Crawley (Kent), Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Dan Lawrence (Surrey), Dillon Pennington (Nottinghamshire), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Matthew Potts (Durham), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jamie Smith (Surrey), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wooden (Durham).