Friday 22 September 2017 06:19, UK
Ashes hopeful Haseeb Hameed has suffered a fractured finger a week before England's squad to face Australia this winter is due to be announced.
Hameed sustained the injury to his right hand while batting in Lancashire's Specsavers County Championship defeat to Middlesex at Lord's, with his county later confirming the break on Twitter.
The opener retired hurt on 23 after the blow but did return to the middle to partner last man Matthew Parkinson, failing to add to his score as Steve Finn's 8-79 earned the hosts a 36-run win.
Hameed made his England debut on the tour of India last winter, hitting 82 in his second innings in Rajkot and then 59 not with a broken finger on his left hand in the third Test at Mohali batting at No 8.
However, the 20-year-old was overlooked in favour of Keaton Jennings as Alastair Cook's opening partner at the start of the summer after struggling for runs in the County Championship.
Mark Stoneman was then preferred to Jennings for the series against Windies after Jennings averaged 15.87 in the four Tests against South Africa.
Hameed's injury followed that of Middlesex's England seamer Toby Roland-Jones, who failed to bowl on the final two days at Lord's due to a back strain.
He has had a second set of scans on the back injury which curtailed his involvement in his county's victory over Lancashire.
