Dom Sibley: ‘I fell in love with cricket watching that 2005 Ashes series ... it would be a dream’

The opening batsman tells Paul Eddison about Indian conditions, recovering from injury and his ambition to one day play in an Ashes series

England batsman Dom Sibley (Getty Images)

Cricket can be a thankless game at times – Dom Sibley has found out the hard way. 

On the very same day that the England and Warwickshire opener was receiving a bottle of champagne for being named Wisden Cricketer of the Year, he fractured his index finger on his right hand, stalling his plans for a fruitful English summer.

The 25-year-old is not the first player to fracture a finger, in fact he is not even the first England player to do so in 2021, with Ben Stokes having suffered a similar injury but on his left hand two days earlier.