Matthew Hayden ‘Dodges a Bullet’: Australian Cricket Great Fractures Spine in Surf Accident in Queensland; View Pics
Test great Matthew Hayden said Monday he had "dodged a bullet" after suffering head and neck injuries, including a spine fracture, while surfing during a holiday in Queensland.
Sydney, Oct 8: Australian Test great Matthew Hayden said Monday he had "dodged a bullet" after suffering head and neck injuries, including a spine fracture, while surfing during a holiday in Queensland. MS Dhoni or Chris Gayle, Who's The Real Universe Boss? Matthew Hayden Picks CSK Captain!
Hayden, a top-order batsman who was last year inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame, fractured his spine near the base of his neck, tore several ligaments and hurt his forehead after being dumped into a sandbank while surfing with his son Josh off North Stradbroke Island on Friday.
"Fractured C6, torn C5, C4 ligaments safe to say I truly have dodged a bullet," Hayden wrote in an Instagram post beside a photo of his battered face. "Thank you, everyone. On the road to recovery." The 46-year-old, who retired from international cricket in 2009 after a 103-Test career, told Brisbane's Courier-Mail he was "bloody lucky" to escape serious injury.
Here's what Matthew Hayden posted on his Instagram account:
"It was an hour into the session and we had had half dozen waves together and I got this one right-handed wave which I sort of ducked under and that is pretty much all I can remember," he told the newspaper Monday.
View picture of Matthew Hayden after his accident while Surfing:
"I wasn't knocked out. I was speared into the top of the sandbank onto the top of my head. Then it twisted my head with my own weight and the weight of the wave. "I heard this god almighty click in my neck. I did not get knocked out but I sort of came to and rolled up on my back." Hayden said he was able to get back onto the beach, but had scans later that day, which revealed the extent of his injuries.
Despite the scare, Matthew Hayden said he would return to surfing, adding: "The ocean gives and the ocean takes -- I will be back."
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