England duo Ben Stokes and Chris Woakes to miss remainder of Australia ODI series

England expect to have Ben Stokes back before Chris Woakes as their star all-rounders recover from muscle tears but neither will feature against Australia this month.

Both players picked up the injuries one Test after the IPL, bringing into question England allowing them to transition from T20 to Test without a first-class warm-up, and were initially ruled out of “the early part” of the five-match ODI series against Australia, the third of which is at Trent Bridge tomorrow.

Woakes’ right quad tear is complicated by its link to a chronic knee injury. He received an injection last Monday and is undergoing rehab on both injuries, but will not play again until the ODIs against India, which begin on 12 July, at the earliest.

The prognosis for Stokes’ left hamstring is better. He is seen as a faster healer than Woakes and is running at 90 per cent capacity and batting fully. Stokes will up his rehabilitation with England at the fourth (Durham) and fifth (Manchester) ODIs later this week, when he will return to bowling. England hope he will be fit to face India in the three-match T20i series starting on 3 July.

Tomorrow at Trent Bridge England have the chance to take their second 3-0 series lead over Australia this year. In January down under they won the series 4-1 and, after their 38-run victory in Cardiff on Saturday, they need just one more win to wrap up this five-match series. It would be Australia’s fourth successive ODI series defeat, and they have won just three of their last 15 completed games in the format; they have slipped to sixth, a 34-year low in the ODI rankings.

The world champions looked a better-balanced team on Saturday than at the Oval, but – thanks to Jason Roy’s wonderfully measured 120 – England did not have to work that hard to rack up 342. That should worry Australia, given where the third game is played. In England’s last completed ODI at Trent Bridge, against Pakistan in September 2016, they made a men’s world record 444-3 and won by 169 runs.

How Alex Hales would love to gorge on his homeground – which, with a flat pitch and small boundaries, has become an utter batsman’s paradise in domestic white-ball cricket – the way he did that day for a then national record 171. He is the spare man in England’s batting lineup when everyone is available, which says much about their power (Hales averages 36 with five centuries and strikes at 96), but also a little about the lapses in concentration that litter his game.

Captain Eoin Morgan was set to train this afternoon having missed the Second ODI with a back spasm, but a decision on whether he plays will be left until the morning.