England are in the midst of a fast bowling injury crisis, with eight seamers currently sidelined with fitness problems.
Jofra Archer, who had been working towards a comeback this summer after having two operations on his right elbow, has suffered a major setback after he was ruled out for the entire season with a stress fracture of the back. Archer is the third England seamer to be ruled out with stress fracture of the back this month, after recent Test debutants Saqib Mahmood and Matt Fisher.
Mahmood suffered a lumbar stress fracture after featuring in just one County Championship match for Lancashire this season and will miss the entire summer. Fisher, meanwhile, was initially sidelined for four weeks with what Yorkshire coach Ottis Gibson described as "not a stress fracture, a stress reaction".
