Josh Tongue (proper) has taken 167 first-class wickets at a mean of 25.9Venue: Lord’s Dates: 28 June – 2 JulyProtection: Ball-by-ball Check Match Particular commentary on BBC Radio 5 reside sports activities additional, Radio 4 LW, on-line, tablets, mobiles and BBC Sport app. Stay textual content commentary on the BBC Sport web site.

England have included Josh Tongue in an all-pace assault for the second Ashes Check towards Australia.

Tongue, 25, is available in as the one change from the workforce that misplaced the primary Check at Edgbaston to interchange off-spinner Moeen Ali.

Moeen was a doubt with a lower to his spinning finger, however bowled within the nets on Monday and was match to play.

Tongue made his Check debut towards Eire at Lord’s earlier this month, taking 5-66 within the second innings.

He’s most well-liked to Mark Wooden, who was felt to want one other week to be absolutely match match – the third Check is at Headingley on 6 July.

With out Moeen, accountability for spin will fall to Joe Root, who took one wicket along with his off-breaks at Edgbaston.

Within the second innings, Root really bowled extra overs than Moeen because the Warwickshire man nursed his finger.

Moeen, 36, got here out of Check retirement to play within the Ashes after common frontline spinner Jack Leach suffered a stress fracture in his again.

Leach had been ever current within the England workforce since Ben Stokes took over as captain at first of final summer season and this would be the first Check underneath Stokes that England haven’t fielded a frontline spinner.

England XI: Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes, Bairstow, Broad, Robinson, Tongue, Anderson.

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