{"id":410762,"date":"2026-02-06T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410762\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T07:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T07:32:11","slug":"ben-stokes-shares-snap-of-shocking-facial-injuries-after-being-struck-with-cricket-ball-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410762\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stokes shares snap of shocking facial injuries after being struck with cricket ball in training"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 Feb 2026, 19:44 Updated: 11h ago <\/p>\n

5 Feb 2026, 19:44 | Updated: 11h ago <\/p>\n

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Ben Stokes revealed the extent of his injuries on Instagram. .<\/p>\n

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England captain Ben Stokes has shared a picture of a shocking facial injury he sustained after being struck with a cricket ball during training.<\/p>\n

The all-rounder posted a selfie to his Instagram story showing his eye and nose severely bruised and swollen while joking: “You should see the state of the cricket ball.”<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old was indoor training with Durham when a ball was hit back towards his direction, catching him off-guard, according to reports.<\/p>\n

He was taken to hospital by his teammate and former England player Scott Borthwick. <\/p>\n

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Stokes suffered a groin injury during the Sydney test match last month.<\/p>\n

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Stokes is still recovering from a groin injury which forced him off the field at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the final test match of England’s 4-1 Ashes series defeat Down Under, last month.<\/p>\n

Academy wicket-keeper batter Robbie Bowman was batting at the time when he struck the ball back towards where Stokes was standing.<\/p>\n

The rookie 18-year-old was later phoned by Stokes from hospital to tell him not to worry and tell him it was not his fault.<\/p>\n

Durham coach Ryan Campbell told the outlet: “Stokesy said he broke the No1 rule of being a coach in the nets \u2013 never turn your back on the batter!<\/p>\n

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Durham County Cricket Ground, where the team were training at the time.<\/p>\n

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“By chance, our medical team were at the ground doing simulations. Suddenly, they had a real emergency to deal with.<\/p>\n

“Robbie hit the ball hard. Players shouted out a warning but Stokesy ended up turning his head towards the ball.<\/p>\n

“Scottie Borthwick, his great mate, drove him to hospital, and our physio went as well.”<\/p>\n

Stokes is due to gain his first experience as a coach when he flies to the UAE later this month to join Freddie Flintoff’s England Lions staff.<\/p>\n

It is expected he will continue to rehab his injury there, before England Men’s home international summer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"5 Feb 2026, 19:44 Updated: 11h ago 5 Feb 2026, 19:44 | Updated: 11h ago Ben Stokes revealed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}