James Anderson will lead the tourists' bowling attack days after he surpassed Sir Ian Botham to become England's leading Test wicket-taker during the drawn first Test match.
As well as becoming England's leading Test wicket-taker in the first Test, Anderson bowled England to victory in the second Test and ended the series with 17 victims, the most on either side.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan has already predicted Anderson, 29, will surpass Sir Ian Botham's record to become England's leading Test wicket-taker, and Watkinson believes Anderson has all the attributes to lead his country to further glories.
In 2008, he passed Brian Lara's mark of 11,953 runs to become the leading Test runscorer and in 2010 became the first player to score 50 Test centuries.
He was comfortably the leading Test run-scorer during his career, and had the highest number of Test runs at the time of his retirement.
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Cook, 31, is already England's leading Test run-scorer and needs three dozen more to reach 10,000.
Anderson, England's leading Test wicket-taker, sustained a stress fracture to his right shoulder blade against Sri Lanka last month.
