Anderson bowled in the nets during Lancashire’s recent draw with Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge in the County Championship, and reported no ill effects.
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That century at Scarborough was made against a Middlesex attack including right-armer Roland-Jones, who has taken 30 wickets in the County Championship this season.
Roland-Jones will be in the Middlesex squad when they host Glamorgan at Richmond Cricket Club’s Old Deer Park home on Friday (5:30pm start).
England and Pakistan are set to play their first Test on English soil since the 2010 spot-fixing scandal when they meet at Lord’s on Thursday.
He was dropped during England’s Ashes series past year due to his poor form but has been brought back to replace Nick Compton, who is taking a break from the game after a woeful run.
He said: “Toby has had a really good summer so far and has been there or thereabouts for the last three years or so”.
“Hopefully this is a time I can go in and stamp my authority on a place and get some runs”.
Sri Lankan cricket will need a couple of years before they become a competitive unit on all fronts, with their upcoming tours to Australia and South Africa in the winter likely to be equally harrowing experiences. But I haven’t played, and obviously that’s what you want to be doing. It may be that the selectors are actively keen to separate the personnel playing red- and white-ball cricket whenever possible.
Ballance said: “Lord’s holds great memories for me – but to be fair, for the majority of my Test career I’ve got great memories of it”.
“If you can put good scores on the board, the Pakistan seam attack is good. we really have to stand up as a batting unit and give them good scores”.
England (from): Cook (captain), Ali, Bairstow, Ballance, Ball, Broad, Finn, Hales, Root, Roland-Jones, Vince, Woakes.
“I think he deserves a chance to move on with his life rather than looking backwards”. “To be honest I’ve batted three, four and five and mixed around those positions for the last two years with Yorkshire and England, so genuinely I don’t mind where I bat”.
“I did have sympathy for the situation he found himself in”, said Atherton, who was chairing a preview press conference for series sponsors Investec at Lord’s on Thursday.
Anderson’s omission from England’s 12-man squad was a surprise, after mixed reports on the seriousness of his injury.
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England captain Alastair Cook admitted Roland-Jones’ selection had been spoken about for a few weeks before he finally got the nod following the Anderson injury. “Club cricket there (in Swabi) is very good – Junaid Khan (another of Pakistan’s left-arm pace bowlers, who has played 22 Tests) is from Swabi”.
