England’s top three has become a game of musical chairs, with each of Keaton Jennings, Rory Burns, Joe Denly, Jonny Bairstow and even captain Joe Root batting in at least one those positions since their home series against India last year, when Alastair Cook retired.

And while Jennings has been dropped twice since then and Root has gone back to his more favourable No.4 position, the top-order collapses have not abated.

Foakes is most likely to put pressure on fellow glove-man Bairstow, who has averaged just 27 with the bat since the beginning of last season. But the Yorkshire batsman “is working on it”, Bayliss said.

“It is one of those things. He has got to continue to work on it. Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you work on it though, if you’ve been playing a certain way for a long time it is difficult to get out of it in a hurry. He is aware of it.”