They found that women died more from "injuries" in a given year than while giving birth - injuries, they say, "appear to be indicator of violence against women".

BBC: How India treats its women

With back, groin and ankle injuries - plus on one occasion the birth of his daughter - keeping Flintoff out of action, the team now realises they must have a Plan B in his absence.

BBC: Flintoff celebrates a one-day wicket

But the costs do not include any longer term costs, for example the life-long cost of caring for babies who suffer serious birth injuries.

BBC: Home births more 'cost effective', says Oxford study