Surrey duo Ollie Pope and Dan Lawrence person been recalled to the England squad for the archetypal 2 Tests against Pakistan.
The brace person been named successful a 16-man squad earlier the bid opener astatine Headingley connected Wednesday 19 August but Jacob Bethell volition miss the full bid done injury, with Jordan Cox to beryllium promoted to fig three.
The three-match bid marks England's archetypal Test outing since the retirement of skipper Ben Stokes and sacking of caput manager Brendon McCullum.
Joe Root volition skipper the broadside for the archetypal clip since being reappointed to the relation successful July, with Marcus Trescothick serving arsenic interim caput coach. McCullum's replacement, Stephen Fleming, volition statesman his tenure against South Africa successful December.
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England's 16-man squad for the archetypal 2 Tests against Pakistan: Joe Root (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Sam Cook, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Emilio Gay, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue.
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Lawrence, who earned the past of his 14 Test caps successful September 2024, is rewarded for his home form. The 29-year-old is the second-highest run-scorer successful Division One of the County Championship, with 788 runs astatine 65.66, including 5 centuries, successful 13 innings.
He is slated to bat astatine six, filling a middle-order vacancy created by Stokes' retirement, but is acold from a like-for-like replacement for the erstwhile captain.
Only Gus Atkinson (79 wickets) has taken much Test wickets for England than Stokes (78) since the commencement of June 2022. Lawrence, who bowls right-arm off-spin, has taken 9 wickets from 178.2 overs successful the County Championship this season.
Former vice-captain Pope was replaced by Bethell astatine fig 3 for the last 2 Ashes Tests successful Australia pursuing an extended play of mediocre signifier and was subsequently dropped from the squad against New Zealand.
Like Lawrence, helium has performed good successful the County Championship, scoring 510 runs astatine 56.66, including 5 50+ knocks, for Surrey, but volition not automatically slot backmost into the broadside successful Bethell's absence.
Bethell suffered a genu wounded during the ODI bid against India successful July and is acceptable to beryllium replaced by Cox, who made his Test debut against New Zealand astatine The Oval.
England's men's nationalist selector, Marcus North, said: "We person selected a squad for the archetypal 2 Tests that balances rising endowment with the acquisition needed against a prime Pakistan team.
"Dan Lawrence returns pursuing an exceptional play truthful acold with Surrey and we judge helium has the close level of experience, maturity and accomplishment to complement our mediate order.
"Jordan Cox is good regarded arsenic 1 of the astir breathtaking talents successful English cricket and volition person the accidental to bat astatine 3 successful spot of Jacob Bethell, who sadly misses this bid done injury."
Essex's Sam Cook returns to the squad for the archetypal clip since past summer. The 29-year-old seamer made his planetary debut against Zimbabwe successful May 2025 and was named successful the squad for the five-match bid against India but did not feature.
Brydon Carse returns aft a breached wrist ruled him retired of the Indian Premier League and the commencement of the Test summertime portion England are sticking with spinner Shoaib Bashir, who featured successful the archetypal and 3rd Tests against New Zealand aft being overlooked during the Ashes.
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