T20 World Cup: Ben Stokes says boundary sponges should be smaller after Reece Topley injury

The T20 World Cup is being played successful Australia

The size of cricket's bound sponges is "stupid" and "should beryllium looked at" pursuing England bowler Reece Topley's superior ankle injury, says Ben Stokes.

"It's stupid," Stokes said. "It's taken 1 of our players to beryllium ruled retired of the World Cup [to marque radical notice]."

"I'm beauteous definite it's thing they tin look astatine but everybody [advertisers] privation to get their names connected somewhere."

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The sponges people the bound borderline and transportation sponsor logos, the ones being utilized astatine the T20 World Cup are astir 20cm successful tallness and width, a akin size to those utilized astir the world.

All-rounder and Test skipper Stokes added: "You look astatine subordinate information and the information he's stood connected it and it's ruptured ligaments and present he's retired of the World Cup - it should beryllium looked at."

Traditionally the bound was marked by a enactment and earlier that the obstruction astatine the perimeter of the field.

England skipper Jos Buttler played down the issue.

"It is an accident," helium said. "I don't deliberation it is simply a large issue.

"People utilized to play successful the past with nary bound enactment and utilized to tally into a fence."

Former England batter Jonathan Trott, the manager of Afghanistan who England play successful their T20 World Cup opener connected Saturday, said: "There's been galore a clip that someone's stood connected a enactment and done their ankle, truthful it's not conscionable the foam, the ropes person been there.

"Plenty of times guys person dived connected to the enactment and wounded themselves whereas if they dive onto the foam I deliberation that's a small but really safer. I deliberation it's 50-50 really."

For immoderate changes to instrumentality spot the England and Wales Cricket Board would person to rise the contented with the International Cricket Council but it is understood they are improbable to bash so.