Meanwhile, fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko pulled out of the tournament because of an elbow injury he struggled with in practice.
He'll be joined in the outfield by Brett Gardner, limited to 17 games last season because of an elbow injury, and Ichiro Suzuki (39), who revived his career after he was acquired from Seattle last summer.
The elbow injury continues a run of misfortune for Lee over the past 12 months.
An elbow injury ruled Kempson out of the South African World Cup squad and the prop underwent an operation earlier last week.
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The 32-year-old returned home from India with an elbow injury which forced him out of Australia's one-day series.
Carroll seemed to be on the receiving end of an elbow from Kaka in injury-time and the Reds forward needed treatment.
Sharapova had not played since losing to China's Zheng Jie at Indian Wells and her lack of match practice after an elbow injury showed in a 6-4 6-3 defeat at Caja Magica.
The New South Wales paceman, who has described his current elbow injury as the most painful of his career, says he will meet Australia team bosses and captain Ricky Ponting to discuss his options.
But he missed the beginning of the campaign with an elbow injury, allowing Stephen Moore a chance and the latter went on to score more than 1, 000 first-class runs in his first full campaign.
Asif, meanwhile, is still recovering from an elbow injury which has kept him out of action for five months.
Graeme Swann has already been ruled out of the five-match series as he requires surgery on an elbow injury.
England have a couple of other injury worries, with Kevin Pietersen and Graham Onions suffering from Achilles tendon and elbow problems respectively.
That all changed in the second game of the season when the Steelers' starter, Tommy Maddox, went down with an elbow injury, forcing Roethlisberger into the starting role.
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