Adams finger injury (13 November 1998)

13 November 1998

Adams finger injury

Trevor Chesterfield

CENTURION (South Africa) - For Jimmy Adams, West Indies A captain last season and now back in South Africa as part of the main touring party, it was the cruelest cut of all.

While attempting to slice into a roll he cut open the small finger of his right hand instead and it required three stitches.

On hand was Dr Ali Bacher, managing director of the United Cricket Board, who trained as a doctor, who assisted a newly qualified young woman doctor from Durban who put three stitches in the small wound which will put the all-rounder out of the side for at least the first two games of the tour, which opens in Soewto today against a Gauteng XI.

Adams, looking a little sheepish, and sporting a shaved scalp, arrived late for the media conference in one of a upmarket Johannesburg banqueting hall. But he's not going to be as late as Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose who failed to make the flight delayed by 20 minutes by Dr Bacher at Heathrow last night.

There was no sight of the West Indies fast bowlers when the aircraft was ready to depart and Dr Bacher had to release their luggage.

Why did the gruesome twosome miss the flight? Dr Bacher shrugged. They missed the shuttle connection and even a man of persuasion as the UCB managing director was unable to have the flight delayed further.

Source :: Trevor Chesterfield, Pretoria News