Ex-Aussie star Johnson ends up with giant cut on his head after chin-up bar incident

Johnson was able to shrug the peculiar event off, posting a series of pictures to his social media profile and telling his followers he was okay

^{Mitchell Johnson needed stitches on a head injury}

Mitchell Johnson required several stitches to a head wound following a freak gym injury.

The former Australia international was left bloodied after an incident involving a chin-up bar on Monday.

Johnson was able to shrug the incident off, posting a series of gory pictures to his social media profile as he stressed that he was okay.

He did not try to enlighten his followers as to the series of events that led to him with a large cut on the top of his head, however, leaving them in limbo with an ambigious picture caption.

^{Johnson sustained the injury in the gym}

He wrote: "If you don’t like blood & cuts then don’t look through these pics!

"Not the best thing I’ve ever done to myself but I’m am fine #toohardtoexplain#dontfightchinupbar#stilldontknowhowitspossible".

Johnson, who has not played first-class cricket since 2015 but has been turning out for Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash, won 73 Test caps for his country.

He claimed a total of 590 wickets for the Aussies across cricket's three formats.