Tony Dell opens up on post-traumatic stress disorder

Tony Dell, the former Australia seamer, played the last of his two Tests in 1974, but struggles to remember much of his Test career 40 years on. A few years before his Test debut, Dell served in Vietnam but the experience there later led to post-traumatic stress disorder, which is hitting him in his 60s. He talks to Daniel Lane in Sydney Morning Herald about his disorder.

''I came back to a very foreign world of psychedelia, Jimi Hendrix, miniskirts and anti-Vietnam fever,'' he recalled. ''Had I wasted the last year of my life? In the space of a few weeks I went from a botched-up night ambush outside of Nui Dat to being paid up at Enoggera [Barracks in Brisbane] and then back to my civilian job. They teach you to kill, but they don't unteach you.''