England wicketkeeper Matt Prior was forced to apologise after smashing a dressing-room window at Lord’s and showering a medical student with glass.

Emma Baker, 22, studying to be a doctor at Barts and the London School of Medicine, was lucky to escape with only a minor cut above her ankle.

She told Sportsmail: 'It certainly wasn’t something that I expected to happen, but it hasn’t put me off cricket or coming to watch England play here. Everyone was very nice about it.'

Inspecting the damage: Matt Prior reacted in frustration to being run out and set off a chain of events which led to the broken window

Wicketkeeper Prior, upset at being run out for four after he was sent back by team-mate Ian Bell, had thrown down his bat in anger in the dressing room.

It ricocheted off other bats resting against the window, breaking the glass with a loud bang. The fragments sprayed over the ground floor of the pavilion 40 feet below, all around Emma, her brother Jake and dad Peter, who were sitting on a bench.

Emma, who had her flesh wound treated by England doctor Mark Bawden in the Lord’s physio room, received apologies from Prior and England captain Andrew Strauss, who came to see her.

Quick score: Prior had attempted to steal a quick single but was run out

Clean up job: Staff at Lord's were forced to clear up pieces of glass

Emma, on her first Lord’s visit since being elected an associate member three months ago after three years on the waiting list, added: 'Everyone was very nice about it. Matt Prior has said he is sorry and I’ve accepted that. I realise these things sometimes happen in the dressing room and I won’t be taking the matter further.'

After the second Test against Sri Lanka had ended in a draw, Strauss said: 'Matt felt pretty contrite about it. I don’t think he realised there were people below him. Then it hit home when you realise what could have happened. It was potentially quite dangerous.

‘They appreciated the fact he apologised. I’m not going to be encouraging my players to break windows, but it was an accident.’

Heads up: The glass would have fallen at some speed onto the spectators watching below

Lord’s pavilion steward Brian Steer said: 'There were fragments of glass all over the place. It could have been a lot, lot worse.

'St John Ambulance were called in but fortunately the MCC member did not require any further assistance.

'She was extremely brave in the circumstances.'

Remarkably, Emma’s other brother Daniel was also hit by glass as he was watching a Test in New Zealand when a window broke in the Australia dressing room in similar circumstances.



