His side lost their Group B matches against Australia and Afghanistan.
Stokes on Monday announced his sudden retirement from ODI cricket, saying that the rigours of playing all three formats of the game were "unsustainable" for him and he was not able to give his 100 percent to the team in the 50-over format.
Root's unbeaten innings brought him to his 27th Test century. According to the ICC, the 31-year-old has 10 World Test Championship tonnes and nearly 1,000 more WTC runs than his closest challenger, Australia's Marnus Labuschagne (2,180 runs).
Nicholls is a key member of New Zealand's Test squad. He has eight centuries in 46 games, with a 40.38 average.
The two ageing warhorses were strangely left out of England's three-Test tour of the Caribbean earlier this year, with selectors instead opting to give more opportunities to the next generation of seam bowlers.
Pathan's comment comes after Stokes played a pivotal role in England's win over West Indies in the second test of the ongoing three-match Test series.
Holder also said that the team is experienced enough to get back up from this defeat and challenge Joe Root and Co. in the third and final Test beginning Friday at the same venue.
For the Windies, Kraigg Brathwaite (75), Brooks and Roston Chase (51) cracked half centuries.
According to the ICC protocols, a team will receive a warning first in case of inadvertent or deliberate use of saliva on the match ball. Following two such warnings, the team will be handed a five-run penalty.
England all-rounder Ben Stokes had earlier called for the team management to support pacer Archer.
