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England shored up their pace attack for the third Test against India at Lord’s by adding Gus Atkinson to the squad. The announcement from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) came shortly after Ben Stokes' men suffered a 336-run thrashing at Edgbaston that helped the visitors level the five-match series with three matches to go.
“Welcome, Gus. We’ve made one addition to our Test squad for Lord’s,” the ECB wrote in a post on X confirming the Surrey pacer’s addition to the squad less than an hour after India collected their maiden victory at Edgbaston by bundling England out for 271 on the final day after setting them a mammoth 608 to win.
NEWS: Gus Atkinson has been added to the England Test squad for this week’s match at Lord’s. 🙌
— Surrey Cricket (@surreycricket) July 6, 2025
Great to see you back, Gussy.
🤎 | #SurreyCricket pic.twitter.com/v6owVFKqeX
Atkinson has not played since the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at Trent Bridge, Nottingham in May – where he suffered a hamstring injury that ruled him out of the subsequent ODI series against West Indies.
The 27-year-old has quickly established himself as a first-choice pacer for England since collecting 7/45 and 5/61 on debut against West Indies at Lord’s last year, the match also marking James Anderson’s 188th and final Test appearance.
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More ShortsAnd captain Stokes as well as head coach Brendon McCullum will be delighted to have him back in action after getting smashed for more than a thousand runs at Edgbaston, where India captain Shubman Gill alone scored a combined 430 (269 and 161) across both innings.
England had earlier included Jofra Archer in the squad days after going 1-0 up in the five-match series with a five-wicket victory at Headingley, but decided against drafting the Barbadian-born pacer into the XI right away.
Archer’s appearance in the recent Sussex-Durham County game was his first in First-Class cricket since May 2021, which might have been the reason behind England sticking to their winning combination for the second Test .
However, the team is more than likely to make changes after the sound thrashing in Birmingham and it remains to be seen if both Atkinson and Archer are included in the playing XI in order to stop Gill, who’s in red-hot form at the moment, and the rest of the Indian batting order.
England squad for the third Test at Lords’: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Chris Woakes, Brydon Carse, Josh Tongue, Shoaib Bashir, Jacob Bethell, Sam James Cook, Jamie Overton, Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson
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