Jake Ball has been made to wait for a Test recall after Alastair Cook confirmed two changes to the England side to face Bangladesh in Dhaka, with Stuart Broad also making way for the final match before heading to India.
Surrey spinner Zafar Ansari and Middlesex seamer Steven Finn will come into the side for Gareth Batty and Broad respectively, with England aiming to complete a series triumph following the drama of the encounter in Chittagong last week.
24-year-old Ansari will make his Test bow after flirting with selection over a prolonged period, not helped by a finger injury which kept him out of action last winter.
“Zafar is going to make his debut, coming in for Gareth, and Finny is coming in for Broady,” said Cook.
“He clearly has the ability to take the ball away from the right handers. He can bowl at good pace with good control. It will be really interesting to see how he goes.
“I’m sure he’d [Broad] like to get that milestone but this is a case of looking a bit further to the future and he understands the amount of cricket he could play over the next six weeks.”
Ball was considered as a replacement for Chris Woakes, but Cook believes the Warwickshire all-rounder could do with more game time in the subcontinent.
“In an ideal way we’d have liked Jake to have a game,” said Cook.
“But we feel Chris Woakes hasn’t played a huge amount of cricket on the subcontinent and didn’t have a huge workload in the last game. We feel he will benefit for a bit more experience in these conditions.
“We want other people up and running. We don’t want to go to India with too many people not played any cricket.”
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