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May 3, 2000 LONDON, May 2: Warwickshire's South African fast bowler Allan Donald was carried off on a stretcher with a suspected broken rib after a freak accident in an English National League match on Monday. Donald,
playing against Hampshire at Southampton, successfully caught a skied
on-drive from Australian Shane Warne but fell backwards on to the top of
the boundary fence as he did so. He collapsed in agony, clutching the right side of his lower back. Players from both sides, including Warne, surrounded him. Hampshire medical staff placed Donald on the stretcher before taking him to hospital in Southampton. A Southampton General Hospital spokesman said later he had been discharged overnight but will be examined on Tuesday morning at an Edgbaston hospital.
Warwickshire
manager Bob Woolmer said the player was too shocked to have an X-ray in
Southampton.
He
said at the time of the accident: "Allan thinks he has broken a rib.
He is in a lot of pain. It was an accident and these things happen but it
wasn't pleasant to watch."
Warne was declared not out but was dismissed soon afterwards. Warwickshire won by 97 runs and Donald took the man-of-the match award for his three for nine over spell.
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