Superstar England all-rounder Ben Stokes has suffered a bizarre treble setback successful his bid to play the archetypal Ashes Test adjacent week.
The 30-year-old batter-paceman was primitively ruled retired of the circuit Down Under, which begins astatine the Gabba connected December 8.
Stokes had complications from a digit injury, and past announced helium would instrumentality a interruption from cricket to absorption connected his intelligence health.
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But the England and Wales Cricket Board past period dropped a bombshell connected the Aussies by declaring Stokes would travel, and hoped to play successful each 5 matches successful cricket's longest and astir storied rivalry.
However, pursuing his accomplishment successful Australia there's been yet different twist and the past fewer days person not been benignant to the antheral who broke Australia's hearts successful a celebrated Ashes innings astatine Headingly successful 2019.
Writing successful a file for the Mirror, Stokes revealed helium choked connected a tablet portion unsocial successful his edifice country successful Brisbane.
"(It) got stuck successful my windpipe causing maine to choke horribly earlier the glands successful my look went into overdrive to flush it out," Stokes wrote.
"Until it really came out, I thought this mightiness beryllium the end.
"I was connected my ain successful my country and I couldn't respire arsenic it became lodged and started to dissolve. It felt similar my rima was connected fire.
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"Without going into excessively overmuch item I person ne'er seen arsenic overmuch saliva arsenic I did connected Sunday morning, it was a genuinely frightening experience."
The England squad doc was capable to assistance Stokes and helium avoided the incidental being much serious.
But then, lone hours later, Stokes was batting successful the nets during a grooming league erstwhile helium was struck connected the forearm by a abbreviated ball.
"I was successful agony, and I couldn't assistance it thereafter. I thought it was broken," Stokes wrote successful his column.
Luckily the wounded was not arsenic superior arsenic archetypal thought, and England is hopeful Stokes volition beryllium disposable to play astatine the Gabba adjacent week.
It volition beryllium his archetypal Test lucifer since March... though that's inactive much caller than immoderate Australian cricketer.
"We've conscionable got to dainty Ben cautiously arsenic we would with anyone other who has been successful that presumption of not having a batch of cricket nether their belts," ECB manager Ashley Giles told media.
"He volition beryllium a hard antheral to clasp backmost if helium is acceptable to go."
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