Ben Stokes has suffered a major facial damage after being struck by a cricket ball.
The England Take a look at captain posted an image on Instagram exhibiting his proper eye closely swollen and bruised, a graze on his cheek and lip, and a bandage stuffed in his nostril.
He captioned the image: “You should see the state of the cricket ball.”
The 34-year-old is again in England following the dismal Ashes tour, which ended with a 4-1 defeat final month, with query marks nonetheless hanging over his place, amid an ECB evaluate.
Stokes revealed the extent of his damage on social media.
The autopsy remains to be persevering with with England coach Brendan McCullum claiming a number of the fall-out has been “out of order”.
Stokes subsequent may characteristic for Durham within the early County Championship rounds earlier than England kick off their Take a look at summer time towards New Zealand at Lord’s on June 4.
England’s T20 World Cup fixtures (first spherical)
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- vs Nepal (Sunday February 8) – Mumbai (9.30am)
- vs West Indies (Wednesday February 11) – Mumbai (1.30pm)
- vs Scotland (Saturday February 14) – Kolkata (9.30am)
- vs Italy (Monday February 16) – Kolkata (9.30am)
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