Breaking: Despair as Stuart Broad flies back home

STUART Broad is to fly home from the World Cup tomorrow because of a side injury, the ECB have confirmed.

The England seamer this afternoon received the news he was dreading, having undergone two scans after suffering soreness in his upper side during Sunday’s Group B victory over South Africa.

Broad’s early departure is the second major blow in as many days to England’s prospects of winning this tournament for the first time in their history, following Kevin Pietersen’s return to the UK to have a hernia operation.

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Broad is likely to be replaced by fast bowler Chris Tremlett, who has been with the England squad throughout their campaign as a stand-by player, although his place in the line-up to face Bangladesh on Friday could be taken by Yorkshire’s Ajmal Shahzad.