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Root’s England team has been hit hard by a flu-bug which saw three players; Ollie Pope, Jack Leach and Chris Woakes all stay in the team hotel on Thursday.

England chose not to pick a frontline spinner, instead playing five seamers, with Jimmy Anderson picked to play his 150th Test. Sharing the seam bowling duties with him are Stuart Broad and Jofra Archer, who were both laid low by the illness last week, but have recovered and did participate in training this week, along with Sam Curran. The good news for the tourists was that Ben Stokes was picked after his father was hospitalised on MOnday.

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