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Even if all the bowlers are fit, Woakes should be encouraged by Scott Boland's recent performances with a spiced-up Kookaburra ball, and the day-night second Test in Brisbane.

The retired James Anderson has got him out more than anyone else in Test cricket, while Gill has also struggled against Australia's Scott Boland.

Scott Boland has consistently proved an excellent stand in, but at 36 he is even older than the men he could potentially replace in the side.

Apart from Boland the specialist bowling stocks are a little bare with the likes of Beau Webster and Green likely to fill the breach.

The birds have also visited the North Pennines and the Lake District, even travelling as far as the Forest of Boland in Lancashire and Nidderdale in Yorkshire.