Fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman, who is playing the Bangladesh Premier League for Comilla Victorians, suffered a head injury during Sunday's practice session at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong.
The pacer was hit on the head by a shot of batter Matthew Forde while going back to his run-up.
He was rushed to Imperial Hospital where scans were done on his head, however, to everyone's relief, there was no internal bleeding, Comilla management confirmed in a statement.
The pacer needed five stitches in the injured area and will be under observation for 24 hours.
"During practice a ball hit directly at left parietal area (head) of Mustafizur. There was open wound at his parietal area and we have worked with compression bandage to stop bleeding and immediately shifted him to Imperial hospital," said a statement from Comilla, quoting physio Zahidul Islam Sazal.
The statement added that the injury was only external and the pacer was under supervision of the team physio.
"After CT scan, we are satisfied that he had only external injury, there was no intracranial bleeding. Now surgical team has given him stitches for open wound. Now he is under close supervision at Imperial Hospital under Neurosurgeons team," the statement said.
"His GCI scale is 15/15. Presently he is out of danger and hopefully after 24 hours of observation period we can take him to team hotel," the Comilla management expected.
The hospital's neuro surgeon Dr Moinuddin Eliash also echoed the same, saying: "We did a CT scan and clinical examination of Mustafizur. His condition is stable now and he is out of danger according to the CT scan report."
"As it is a head injury, he will be kept in observation for 24 hours. We will conduct another CT scan after a few hours to check the injuries. He was given five stitches."
With Sri Lanka series approaching fast, Mustafizur's injury is a blow to Bangladesh as the pacer has been an integral part of the team in white-ball cricket still despite ups and downs in his form of late.
