Cracked nose for England cricketer
NPA Hobart i A scare went through the touring English cricket camp when the replacement wicket-keeper. Daivd Bairstow, was injured in a dressing room mishap. Blairstow injured his nose while doing strengthening exercised with the team's physiotherapist, Bernard Thomas. The 2 7-y e a r-o 1 d Yorkshireman arrived in Australia on Thursday after being flown out from England to replace rhe injured reserve keeper Roger Tolchard. Bairstow was taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital for precautionary x-rays but returned to the T.C.A. ground with nothing more than blurred vision. The England phsyiotherapist, Bernard Thomas, was sitting on Bairstow's feet in a leg-
strengthening exercise when he overbalanced and fell on to Bairstow’s face. Bairstow was taken to hospital where an x-ray showed a slight crack. He will be fit to continue the tour.
The injury was the latest in a series to strike England’s wicket-keepers ontour.
Top wicket-keeper Bob Taylor had trouble with a groin injury earlier this month and when Tolchard suffered a cracked right cheekbone when he was felled by a short pitched deliver,’ while batting in the i touring side's match against i Northern New South Wales ;in Newcastle earlier last (Week. I Tolchard has undergone ; minor surgery but he hopes ito rejoin the England team !in a week.
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