England call up Cox and Stone with Zak Crawley ruled out with broken finger

England call up Cox and Stone with Zak Crawley ruled out with broken finger

Injured Dillon Pennington also out of Test cricket squadDan Lawrence is set to open batting in Sri Lanka series

England have called up the Essex batter Jordan Cox and the Nottinghamshire bowler Olly Stone for the three-Test series against Sri Lanka that starts at Old Trafford on 21 August, replacing the injured Zak Crawley and Dillon Pennington. But the primary beneficiary of the changes forced on the team looks most likely to be Dan Lawrence, who having been a regular but always unused member of many recent squads, is in line to make his first actual appearance for more than two years as a stand-in opener.

Crawley fractured a finger during the last game of the recent 3-0 series win over West Indies, and hopes to recover in time for October’s tour of Pakistan. Pennington was in the squad for all three games in that series without making what would have been an international debut, and pulled a hamstring on Friday while making his first appearance for Northern Superchargers in the Hundred. He is considered unlikely to play again this summer, and Superchargers have replaced him with Derbyshire’s Pat Brown.

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