Chris Rogers cleared of serious injury after ball blow

Australia have been warned of the “potentially devastating” consequences of allowing head-injury victim Chris Rogers to play in next week’s third Ashes test.

Rogers, who was hit by a bouncer from English pacer James Anderson on the second day of the second Test, escaped a serious damage as he had worn the new clip-on helmet and is expected to feature in the third game starting July 29 at Birmingham. The batsman had been treated for a cut then, but the effects of it have lingered, according to the doctor.

Australia are confident Chris Rogers will be available for the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston next week and have attributed a delayed ear problem as the probable cause of a dizzy spell at Lord’s over the weekend.

“He said: “I don’t know what’s happening here”.

“I came down the wicket and I had to look twice because I didn’t really know what was going on and with all the talk of him and me not getting along I thought it was just him not wanting to come and talk to me”, said Warner.

“He actually said to me “the grandstand is moving” and I said “No, it’s not”.

“[We are] two different people, as in he reads a lot of books; I wouldn’t read a book”, Warner told the Sydney Morning Herald.

“That was weird… I was anxious; I had no idea what was going on”, he said. “I would love to see him go on, but he will know when it is time”.

Howard, a self-confessed “cricket tragic”, made the assertion during a speech at King’s College London on Tuesday evening, saying that England were “spooked” by Johnson and the rest of Australia’s fast bowlers following their crushing 405-run defeat in the second Ashes Test at Lord’s on Sunday.

Speaking as part of a Chance to Shine Street event in the city, supported by Lycamobile, he said: “It will be great”.

It was in that one-off Twenty20 match against India last summer that Moeen was booed by a crowd largely dominated by Anglo-Indians, provoked by his Pakistani heritage.

“We certainly haven’t ruled him out of next week’s Test”.

There is now the possibility that he will have to be replaced for the Edgbaston Test, with Shaun Marsh the clear candidate to do so after standing in for Rogers during the earlier tour of the West Indies.

Bairstow is back after five LV= County Championship Division One centuries this season, including a career-best 219 not out against Durham last month, and he celebrated his recall on Wednesday with an unbeaten 74 in title-holders and table-toppers Yorkshire’s seven-wicket victory over Worcestershire at Scarborough.

“He just laughed. He is playing with freedom, he is playing with a clear mind… he is on a mission to score as many runs as he can and that’s the positive attitude he brings to the table with his experience”. But it’s happened now.

“Personally I felt they were a little bit flat in that first spell”.