England select Josh Tongue in all-pace attack for Lord's Ashes Test

England made a surprise call for the second Ashes Test at Lord's by selecting untested seamer Josh Tongue as the replacement for spinner Moeen Ali.

Spinning all-rounder Moeen suffered blisters on his bowling finger during the narrow two-wicket defeat in the series opener at Edgbaston.

It was hoped that express pace bowler Mark Wood would be selected, especially since the home team failed to take the final two Aussie lower order wickets in the opening Test.

However, Worcestershire paceman Tongue, 25, was preferred for the match that starts on Wednesday with Wood not yet considered fit enough to last a full five-day Test.

Seamer Chris Woakes and leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed were also overlooked of Tongue, who impressed with a maiden five-wicket haul on his debut against Ireland earlier this month.

"We needed to get to Lord's first and see what conditions we were faced with," England captain Ben Stokes said.

"We wanted to play Mark Wood but we felt while he could definitely start the game, we felt an extra week of build-up and loading him would give him a better chance to play fully from Headingley [third Test] onwards.

"And we brought Tonguey into the team as a like-for-like with Woody. I'm looking forward to seeing Tonguey continue his great start he had against Ireland here.

"Me and Mark are great friends, we go back a long way ... I spoke to him about how I'd want him to operate in this game and he was very honest with me. He wasn't sure if he'd be able to give what he's known for throughout this Test match.

"So the decision was made to allow him to keep building his body up to give himself the best opportunity to go out from Leeds onwards to play a full part."

England look set to use the part-time off spin of Joe Root