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England opener Zak Crawley has been ruled out of the Test series against Sri Lanka starting this month because of a fractured finger.<\/b><\/p>\n
The 26-year-old damaged the little finger on his right hand attempting to take a catch at second slip in the victory over West Indies at Edgbaston last week which sealed a 3-0 series clean sweep.<\/p>\n
Surrey’s Dan Lawrence will open alongside Ben Duckett in Crawley’s absence.<\/p>\n
Essex’s Jordan Cox has been called up to the Test squad for the first time.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old has scored 763 runs, including three centuries, at an average of 69.36 in 12 County Championship matches this season.<\/p>\n
He was an unused member of England’s white-ball squad on the 2022 tour of Pakistan.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been thinking about the white-ball side of it, I haven’t really thought about the red ball,” said Cox to Sky Sports. <\/p>\n
“There’s so many good players out there and I thought ‘I’m not going to be in that yet, or ever’. So to get that call was pretty awesome.”<\/p>\n
Nottinghamshire fast bowler Olly Stone, who has played three Tests amid several absences through injury, returns to the squad for the first time since June 2021.<\/p>\n
He replaces uncapped seam bowler and Notts team-mate Dillon Pennington, who sustained a hamstring injury playing for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n