Potential debutant in for Australia's West Indies Test voyage

Sean Abbott has been called up to Australia's squad for the their Test series against the West Indies, beginning on June 25 in Barbados as part of the new World Test Championship cycle.

The 33-year-old quick replaces Brendan Doggett who has been ruled out with a minor hip injury.

Doggett was a traveling reserve for the World Test Championship Final, and will now instead return to Australia instead of making the Caribbean voyage.

While featuring as part of Australia's pace attack in the limited overs international formats, Abbott remains uncapped at Test level, though has been around the red-ball group which toured Sri Lanka earlier this year, and on home soil during the Border-Gavaskar Test series.

Australia travel to Barbados for the first of three Tests, followed by matches in Grenada and Jamaica, the latter being the West Indies' first-ever day-night Test match.

The side are also sweating on the status of Steve Smith, with his compound finger dislocation suffered on the third day at Lord's leaving him in doubt for the first Test.

Despite the sickening blow, Smith avoided a break in the bone which would likely have required surgery, and may be able to play on with a splint as part of his recovery.

"It just split the skin and dislocated it, which made me feel pretty ill at that stage," Smith said after the defeat to South Africa.

"I think (I'm) in a splint for eight weeks now and may be able to play with it in a couple of weeks, so it'll depend on my functionality and what I'm able to do, but it's probably the best result I could have hoped for."