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Whyte to miss Ventnor season
Mike Vimpany - 22 March 2002
Key Ventnor all-rounder Andy Whyte will miss the entire coming cricket season after fracturing his left knee in a freak accident while holidaying in South Africa.
Whyte, a middle-order batsman and medium-pace bowler, underwent a three-hour operation in a Cape Town hospital last week after tripping into a drainage gully and fracturing his knee in six places.
"It really was bizarre," said Whyte, who had originally gone to Cape Town to watch the South Africa-Australia Test Match at Newlands.
"One moment I was simply walking along, the next my foot gave way and I crashed on to the concrete base of a pretty deep watery gully.
"I'm going to be in plaster for six weeks and there's no chance at all of me playing this season," he added.
Whyte's injury is a bitter blow for the Southern Electric Premier League new boys, who will be without al least four of last season's unbeaten Hampshire League championship winning side when the new season begins on May 11.
Mark Garaway, Walter Masimula, Lord's-bound Steven Snell, Ian Hilsum and now Whyte will all be significant absentees.
© SPCL / Mike Vimpany / Daily Echo
| Players/Umpires | Mark Garaway, Walter Masimula, Stephen Snell, Ian Hilsum. |
| Tournaments | Southern Electric Premier League |