"There were lots of broken fingers, " recalls Jeffrey Belk, a childhood pal who now runs marketing at Qualcomm.

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He suffered internal injuries and broken fingers and is recovering in a high-dependency unit at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester.

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Little did they know, five broken fingers and a concussion came with me off the rugby field as well, but with more training I learned to land differently.

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We can see broken fingers.

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Have your fingers broken by a Brett Lee bouncer, and you're a wounded warrior.

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Ms Stanley joked that she was having her "fingers broken gently" during the labour, which lasted 15 minutes.

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She will concede she must have put her hands over her head, for both her thumbs and seven of her fingers are broken.

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