Steven Finn: We can cope without James Anderson

Steven Finn says England’s bowlers will rise to the challenge of taking on Australia without James Anderson in the fourth Investec Ashes Test at Trent Bridge.

Finn - back with a match-winning performance at Edgbaston last week after a torrid two-year hiatus in his Test career - knows there is added responsibility for all of England's bowlers.

Anderson is ruled out with injury, and he will be particularly missed at Nottingham, where the Lancashire fast bowler has taken an incredible 53 Test wickets at under 20 - the conditions have helped him swing the ball prodigiously.

Finn took eight wickets at Edgbaston to help put England 2-1 up in the series and will form the frontline attack with Stuart Broad and - skipper Alastair Cook hinted on Wednesday - fit-again Durham quick Mark Wood.

Finn said: "I've nicked Jimmy’s place in the dressing room, so there's a bit of pressure on me to take the wickets he's taken.

"There's more responsibility. We're all as a bowling unit going to have to step up - because he will be sorely missed.

"That's everyone's responsibility in the attack, not (just) mine."

Finn has a wonderful opportunity to be centre stage in an Ashes series victory, but longer-term ambitions too.

It is not so long ago - when he was deemed 'unselectable' by coaching staff in early 2014, for example, or in tears at Edgbaston after a wicketless day for Middlesex against Warwickshire - that his international return might have seemed implausible.

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“It is more than a dream these days, though, to be assured of his place in England's best team,” he said. "I would love to do that one day - that's a massive ambition of mine.

"I've always wanted to be a dead cert in an England team. My driving ambition has been to get to that place.

"At the moment I'm very much a support player, I suppose ... (I want to) keep building (on my performances) so it comes to a stage where you are a name on a team sheet rather than a bloke with a question mark against you."

Australia are also mindful of Anderson's absence.

Mitchell Johnson reached 300 Test wickets in Birmingham, just ahead of Broad - who needs one more on his home ground to join him.

Johnson spoke for the tourists, who appear understandably a little relieved that they will not have to deal with Anderson at his favourite venue.

"It's a massive loss for them," he said. "They'll have to bring somebody else that has to match him, so it's going to be pretty difficult to do.

"They will miss him ... whoever they bring in will have big pressure on them."