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  • 3 months ago
Freddie Flintoff reveals cricket skills saved his life in near-death car crashSource Reuters
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00:00Apart from medical appointments and various things and coming back out again was quite difficult
00:06but I did it around cricket which was really nice you know it took a strain on the family obviously
00:11um they were always there and helping and supporting us but you know the book's called
00:15coming home so suppose it got me back into cricket being back in that world is the one
00:20which I felt most comfortable. There's a moment you talk about in the book that actually it was
00:25your cricket experience that you feel really saved you in the crash because you'd learnt
00:31to react with 0.4 seconds as the ball's coming towards you and that was something you faced
00:35while you were upside down and being dragged along the tarmac. Yeah I think so so you know when you
00:40bat against bowlers who ball 90 mile an hour plus like you say you get 0.4 of a second and in that
00:44time you've got to pick where the ball's going where it's bouncing if it's swinging where you're
00:48going to hit it how you're going to hit it where the fielders are and I think in that instance of
00:52the crash as the car went over I just similar amount of time I decided that I was going to get
00:57my left arm out and then just look at the floor close my eyes and brace um and the reason you went
01:03left arm is because I'm right-handed and you thought well they tell you if you if you you can lose your
01:08arms so I didn't lose my right arm so I just gripped the steering wheel and then stuck my left one out but
01:13yeah so I think from that point of view it helped but then also cricket afterwards has played a big part in
01:19you know probably recovery or getting back into getting back into the world
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