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Brydon Carse remains sidelined with a foot problem and Olly Stone will not play before the back end of the summer after his own knee operation.

Stokes will look to build his bowling in the run-up to the India series, when England will hope to have Woakes and Carse available.

Durham's creditable fifth-place finish last season after promotion gives cause for optimism and they will still be able to rely on the runs of David Bedingham and Ollie Robinson - but Brydon Carse's continued injury problems will leave a lot of the heavy lifting in the seam-bowling department for Matthew Potts.

He will not feature when the County Championship begins on Friday, nor will his Durham and England team-mate Brydon Carse, who is still recovering from the toe injury which ruled him out of the Champions Trophy last month.

Carse, meanwhile, established himself as a key member of England's pace attack over the winter with 27 wickets in five Tests after making his debut in Pakistan.