.England captain Ben Stokes said Saturday he will certainly overlook the initial Exam versus Pakistan beginning upcoming full week, after failing to recoup from a hamstring injury.The 33-year-old Stokes has been actually out considering that the beginning of August with a hamstring tear experienced throughout The Hundred, missing his group’s 2-1 home Examination collection win against Sri Lanka final month.Top-order concoction Ollie Pope, who led the edge against Sri Lanka, will stand in again for the very first of three matches beginning in the central metropolitan area of Multan on Monday.” I attempted my hardest to acquire on my own fit for this video game,” Stokes informed press reporters.” However have actually taken decision to miss this one considering that I have actually not quite procured video game prepared.” View India v New Zealand LIVE & special to Fox Athletics, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your totally free test today > All-rounder Stokes went to staff process on Friday and Sunday, hitting in the nets as well as bowling a couple of distributions along with a quick start.But the captain stated he was “not sure” he would join the 2nd Exam– also in Multan and slated for Oct 15.” I have actually pressed on my own unbelievably hard as well as worked truly tough along with the health care group to come to where I’m at right now,” he mentioned.” I believe I am actually further ahead than what our team anticipated.
I’ll be functioning equally difficult over the following 10 times to try to acquire on my own fit for the second Test.” Behind time final month the England and also Wales Cricket Panel claimed Stokes had actually been actually “on course” to play against Pakistan.” There is actually a whole lot that has to go right into my rehab program,” he stated.” It is actually consistently discouraging to miss out.” Ben Stokes of England. Photograph through Stu Forster/Getty ImagesSource: Getty ImagesWith Stokes out, England introduced their eleven for the initial Exam, providing speed bowler Brydon Carse his debut in the longer format.The vacationers are going to enter into the Exam along with 3 pacers in Carse, Gus Atkinson and also Chris Woakes, alongside the twist duo of Jack Leach and also Shoaib Bashir.Opener Zak Crawley also returns to the team after skipping the Sri Lanka collection along with a broken finger.England XIOllie Pope (leader), Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Harry Creek, Brydon Carse, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Port Leach, Joe Origin, Jamie Johnson, Chris Woakes.