Hazlewood appears to have recovered well from a tough final day at Lord’s,doing some light bowling at an optional training session on Wednesday,but given his injury history of playing just four Tests over the previous two home summers,the Australians are likely to take a precautionary approach given the tight turnaround between Lord’s and Headingley.

While Australia will recast their bowling,England have made wholesale changes to their side after vice-captain Ollie Pope wasruled out for the remainder of the series with a recurring shoulder injury.

Harry Brook,who looked unsettled against Australia’s short-pitched bowling at Lord’s,has been promoted to No.3 and wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow moves up to No.5. Moeen Ali returns to the team after recovering from an injured spinning finger and bowling all-rounder Chris Woakes has been recalled for his first Test in more than a year.

Express bowler Mark Wood comes in replacing veteran seamer Jimmy Anderson,41 this month,who has struggled in the first two Tests.

England have chosen the extra bowler because Stokes admitted he may not be able to bowl at all following his heroics at Lord’s. The skipper iscarrying a chronic left knee injury which has severely restricted his bowling.

“I’m not going to lie,that last week took it out of me a little bit,” Stokes said. “So a big part of something that I had to think of was what would be the best team if I wasn’t to bowl a ball this game,in the worst case scenario. It doesn’t mean I’m not going to bowl,but that was a huge part of the thinking about the team that we picked.”

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