The all-rounder returns to the fold after answering a SOS name from Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum, lower than ten days out from the beginning of the collection, after Jack Leach was dominated out with a stress fracture. Ali will be part of the workforce in Birmingham on Monday.

Leach’s harm left England scrambling for spin choices, with few excellent candidates in county cricket and the likes of Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed nonetheless inexperienced as frontline red-ball bowlers regardless of making spectacular debuts in Pakistan this winter.