Sri Lanka to tour England for three Tests

COLOMBO, Aug 05 (Agencies): Sri Lanka will tour England in August and September for a three-match Test series, the cricket board announced Monday.

The 1st Test will be from August 21 in Manchester, with the 2nd at Lord's from August 29. The final will be from September 6 at the Oval, it said.

The tour is part of the ICC World Test Championship, Sri Lanka Cricket said.

Sri Lanka was last in England for a Test series after a three-match tournament, which the hosts won 2-0 in 2016.

Since then, England has toured Sri Lanka twice in 2018 for a three-match series, and in 2021 played two matches. England won all five games.

Meanwhile, Dan Lawrence is set to open the batting in England's three-match Test series against Sri Lanka after Zak Crawley was ruled out with a fractured finger.

Jordan Cox, who is uncapped across formats, has been added to the squad as the spare batter, while Olly Stone has replaced Dillon Pennington after he sustained a hamstring injury playing in the Hundred.

Crawley injured the little finger on his right hand during England's ten-wicket win against West Indies at Edgbaston last week, when dropping a catch in the slips. It has since been confirmed as a fracture, ruling him out of the Hundred and the Sri Lanka series.