Jamie Overton Recalled To Squad For England’s Decisive Oval Test Against India

Jamie Overton has returned to England’s squad for nan last Test against India, which starts astatine nan Oval connected Thursday, to supply screen should nan seamers who toiled done the drawn 4th fixture neglect to retrieve successful time.

Chris Woakes and Brydon Carse person some played nan first 4 games of nan series, while Jofra Archer returned to nan Test broadside aft a four-year absence to play nan astir caller 2 – and had ne'er antecedently bowled arsenic galore overs successful a azygous crippled arsenic nan 49.1 he laboured done astatine Old Trafford. In nan Lord’s Test Ben Stokes bowled 44 overs, a number he has bettered only erstwhile successful nan past decade – successful Barbados six years ago.

“You look astatine really agelong we’ve been retired successful nan section and nan overs we’ve bowled arsenic a bowling portion – everyone will beryllium beautiful tired, truthful there’ll beryllium an appraisal of everyone,” Stokes said connected Sunday. “These betterment days will beryllium beautiful important, and we mightiness person to make a fewer decisions to get immoderate caller legs in. It will beryllium 2 aliases 3 days’ betterment for everyone, and we’ll springiness everyone nan champion chance we can. I’m not going to hide from nan truth it has been reliable for nan bowlers.”

Overton was successful nan squad for nan first 3 games of nan series, having past been called up for successful 2022, erstwhile he made his only erstwhile quality against New Zealand astatine Headingley. He was released earlier nan 4th fixture of this bid to play successful nan County Championship, wherever he bowled conscionable 14 overs for Surrey successful a tie against Yorkshire astatine Scarborough. The squad contains 2 different seamers who did not play astatine Old Trafford successful Josh Tongue and Gus Atkinson, who has not played a elder first-team crippled since nan one-off Test against Zimbabwe successful May but who continued his betterment from a hamstring wounded by playing for Surrey’s 2nd XI against Somerset seconds past week – he bowled 30 overs, taking 3 wickets.

India person confirmed that Rishabh Pant sustained a fracture successful his correct ft erstwhile he was deed by a Chris Woakes transportation connected nan opening time astatine Old Trafford. He has been ruled retired of nan last Test and replaced by Narayan Jagadeesan, a 29-year-old wicketkeeper pinch a first-class batting mean of 47.50 who has ne'er represented his state astatine elder level. Dhruv Jurel, who stood successful arsenic wicketkeeper successful nan past 2 games because of injuries to Pant, remains successful nan squad.