DOM Bess has left England’s squad for the second Test against India on Thursday, with seamer Saqib Mahmood called up as cover for Stuart Broad.
Broad is a doubt for the match after sitting out Tuesday’s net session at Lord’s with discomfort in his calf.
He is the second player to join up with the group in recent days after Moeen Ali, who was recalled to the Test squad for the first time in six months on Tuesday.
With Mahmood and Moeen in camp, England have opted to release spinner Dom Bess from the squad.
The spinner was not named in the playing XI for the first Test in Nottingham, which ended in a draw.
He will now rejoin Yorkshire and could play in their Royal London Cup match at Glamorgan on Thursday.
England and India have been fined 40 per cent of their match fees and penalised two World Test Championship points each for maintaining slow over rates in the first Test in Nottingham.
Both sides had received four points each after the draw at Trent Bridge.
However, these was later halved after both teams were ruled to be two overs short of their targets by match referee Chris Broad.
Both sets of players were also fined 40 per cent of their match fees – losing 20 per cent for each over their side failed to bowl in the allotted time.
Captains Joe Root and Virat Kohli both pleaded guilty and accepted the sanctions.
