Derek Pringle has mixed recollections of the former England physio Bernard Thomas, who died this week at the age of 92

Derek Pringle

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Bernard Thomas, who died this week at the age of 92, was the England cricket team’s physiotherapist between 1970 and 1985. A small, bespectacled man, Thomas became world famous when he saved the life of New Zealand’s Ewen Chatfield after the player was struck by a bouncer from England fast bowler, Peter Lever.
Chatfield, a No. 11, had ducked into a short ball from Lever during t...