22 Mar 2014

Stokes has wrist operation, out for at least six weeks

5:13 pm on 22 March 2014

England's New Zealand-born all-rounder Ben Stokes has had surgery on his broken wrist and the England and Wales Cricket Board says he'll need at least six weeks to recover before he can begin training.

The 22-year-old was ruled out of England's World Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh because of the injury, which occurred when he punched a dressing room locker following a dismissal against West Indies in Barbados earlier this month.

Stokes had the operation to repair the fractured scaphoid bone in his right wrist and his progress would be reviewed in six weeks to determine when he could resume training.

Stokes was one of the few England players to emerge with credit from their poor tour of Australia, in which they lost the Ashes test series 5-0 and won only one international game on tour, and his injury was a blow to their Twenty20 hopes.

England face New Zealand in their opening World Twenty20 clash in Chittagong on Sunday.