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Hussain backs fund for DavisLONDON: England opener Nasser Hussain has become the first cricket World Cup star to pledge a donation to the...
May 17, 1999 12:00 AM IST
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Hussain backs fund for Davis
LONDON: England opener Nasser Hussain has become the first cricket World Cup star to pledge a donation to the Winston Davis fund. The fund was set up to help former West Indian paceman Davis following a serious road accident which left him paralysed from the neck down. Davis, who now lives in Worcestershire having moved from his native St Vincent in the Caribbean, is the only bowler to have taken seven wickets in a World Cup match. Davis returned figures of 10.3-0-51-7 against Australia at Headingley in 1983. Hussain will donate a share of auction profits from a London dinner to help Davis.
Forgetful Coney
LONDON: Former New Zealand Test captain Jeremy Coney had an unhappy start to his World Cup. Arriving at London8217;s Heathrow after a gruelling 20-hour journey to commentate for BBC Radio, he found himself detained for five hours in a windowless room by airport officials. Coney, who once remembered his guitar but forgot to take his cricket boots on aninternational tour, had failed to apply for a work permit. Officials scrutinised his documents and debated whether to let him into the country or send him straight back to the other side of the world. Even his modest revelation that he was a former Test captain and had been awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth for his services to cricket failed to impress the airport bureaucrats. Coney8217;s freedom was finally secured when BBC representatives arrived at Heathrow to fill in a 10-page form and vouch for the Kiwi8217;s good character.
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