England are light on strikers for the France friendly, with Darren Bent, Bobby Zamora, Jermain Defoe and Wayne Rooney having all been ruled out.

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In his absence, Tottenham will rely on fellow strikers Peter Crouch, Roman Pavlyuchenko and Robbie Keane while England could turn to Crouch, Fulham's Bobby Zamora or Sunderland striker Darren Bent who scored the third goal in Tuesday's 3-1 qualifying victory in Switzerland.

BBC: Tottenham star Jermain Defoe out for up to three months

Even so, his case has undoubtedly been helped by the absence through injury of fellow strikers Wayne Rooney, Darren Bent, Jermain Defoe and Bobby Zamora.

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