England opener Zak Crawley has been ruled out of the Test series against Sri Lanka starting this month because of a fractured finger.
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.
Surrey’s Dan Lawrence will open alongside Ben Duckett in Crawley’s absence.
Essex’s Jordan Cox has been called up to the Test squad for the first time.
The 23-year-old has scored 763 runs, including three centuries, at an average of 69.36 in 12 County Championship matches this season.
He was an unused member of England’s white-ball squad on the 2022 tour of Pakistan.
“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.
“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.”
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.
He replaces uncapped seam bowler and Notts team-mate Dillon Pennington, who sustained a hamstring injury playing for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred.
