There was some hope that Mark Wood may fit on time for this test after his knee surgery, but he is targeting white balls against South Africa at the end of summer.
After Archer’s lapse, he has played back-to-back tests, after four years of return after four years in the third game at Lord’s, England hopes that both he and Wood will fit for winter ashes in Australia.
Stokes indicated the need for the “fresh leg” spent 143 overs in the field in the last two days in Manchester, but his own injury is many unknown.
Oveton has played a first -class match for Surrey since May, as he was facing a finger injury to England in a day -long international against the West Indies in the same month.
Etkinson Shon during his first international summer in 2024, but his only cricket since the Zimbabwe Test has been a club match three weeks ago and a Surrey Xi Game last week where he bowled 30 overs.
Stokes’s century in Old Trafford was his first in more than two years, but his absence from the batting line-up would be less than a concern for England.
Bethel, 21, has made a surprising start to test cricket with three half -centuries in three matches against New Zealand later last year and he has been called to join Shee in summer.
Meanwhile, India has not yet been confirmed its side, but they will be without wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant due to a fracture leg and they are expected to leave Jasprit Bumrah, who played maximum three tests that he said that he would be before the series.
