Bishoo set to face England

England are set to face trial by leg-spin after West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin confirmed Devendra Bishoo will play in Tuesday's second Test, while England appear set to recall Moeen Ali.

Wrist spin has long been a bete noire for England batsmen, a quirk that has been passed down the DNA since Australia's Shane Warne dominated the old enemy for more than a decade.

Peter Moores' current side, with the fresh faces of Gary Ballance, Ben Stokes, Moeen Ali and Jos Buttler throughout the order, have yet to face a frontline leg-spinner in Tests but that will change when Bishoo returns at the National Stadium in Grenada.

His record over 11 caps is modest, with 40 wickets at 39.55, but the 29-year-old comes into the game in place of the dropped Sulieman Benn in superb form.

Bishoo’s last five first-class matches for Guyana have yielded a phenomenal 37 wickets with six wicket hauls against Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and the Windward Islands.

"Bishoo will be in," Ramdin said when asked about his bowling line-up.

"The pitch will turn out to be better, in terms of spin, than the first Test in Antigua. He has bowled really well in first-class cricket in the last month and a half.

"In our squad's practice match he bowled long spells and got results.

"It's going to be a batting track for the first two days and then the fourth and five days, the spinner will come into play.

"With a leg-spinner you get bad balls and you get beauties. Hopefully he'll get a lot of beauties in this game."

For England, Moeen Ali appeared to bowl without discomfort during training ahead of the second Test.

Image Id: ~/media/AAC9C63D2E754F08A4DE3CB7DA0FBB85Moeen Ali has recovered from an abdominal injury // Getty Images

If the selectors are convinced of his fitness after recovering from an abdominal injury, he would likely replace James Tredwell, who took five wickets in the first Test but is now nursing a shoulder injury.

Pacemen Liam Plunkett and Mark Wood also impressed in the nets, while former captain Michael Vaughan called on England to try “something different” by including leg-spinner Adil Rashid.

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“I always describe Rashid as a ‘60 per cent’ bowler. Sixty per cent of the time he is inconsistent. But 40 per cent of the time, he wins you the game,” Vaughan wrote in the Telegraph.

“Two out of three spells are generally poor, but the other spell makes the difference, and it requires the skill of the captain and the awareness of the team to know exactly what the leg-spinner’s role is.

“It is not his job to do the dirty work. It is not to bowl dots and bowl for maidens. Having a leg-spinner is like having an aggressive quick bowler who just does something outside the box.”