Ollie Robinson could make a timely return for England in the second Test with Mark Wood set to miss out with his elbow injury.
Wood has an impingement in his right elbow that is causing him huge pain when he tries to bowl which makes him a major doubt, not just for Wednesday but the rest of the tour.
“He is sore,” said interim coach Paul Collingwood. “The sensible option is to send him for a scan and see what he is going to be like for the rest of the series.
“He has not bowled in the second innings here so you would say it is unlikely he will feature in Barbados.”
It would be a big blow for England to be without their main strike weapon, but they do have a skiddy, quick replacement in the shape of Saqib Mahmood.
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And the return to full fitness of Robinson would be another boost, potentially at the expense of Chris Woakes for the next match.
“Ollie is looking pretty positive at the moment,” added Collingwood. “His recovery has been excellent.
“The backroom staff have done a great job on Ollie and he bowled a couple of spells today and is getting the ball through really well so that is looking really positive.”
Former England fast bowler Steve Harmison warned that making Wood bowl "dead overs" during the Ashes has contributed to him picking up the elbow injury.
Durham quick Wood has had his fair share of injury problems in the past and has never had a winter as busy as this one, with the 32-year-old playing in four Tests in Australia before getting picked in Antigua.
Previously, the most Tests Wood has played in a single winter is just two and he bowled more than half of his overs during the Ashes after England had already lost the series.
In the fourth Test in Sydney, Wood bowled a total of 41.1 overs in the match, his third-highest workload in his Test career and Harmison was critical of Root's decision to keep bowling him at the time.
"To have your strike bowler bowling overs when they're setting up a declaration, when they've got a bit of an injury track record and background anyway, I just think it's madness," Harmison said on commentary for BT Sport during that Test.
And the ex-England bowler believes those "dead overs" have contributed to Wood getting injured at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
Harmison told TalkSPORT: "He bowled a lot [in Sydney] and I remember thinking that we’re going to need him further down the line. He just kept bowling dead overs.
"England play a lot of cricket and there’s no preparation time going into each tour. So you’ve got to be careful how you use people and the rest periods in between and when they start going again.
"He has bowled a lot, it’s been a while since he’s been injured, and he’s missed a lot of cricket.
"So, those dead overs in Sydney, I wouldn’t say they’re coming back to haunt the England cricket team now, but I don’t think that has helped his body going into this series.
"Especially when you’ve only got one Ferrari and you’ve left a couple of Bentley’s [in Broad and James Anderson] at home!"
