Forty years ago this weekend, Alan Turner was fielding at short leg for New South Wales in a tour game against the West Indies. Lenny Pascoe banged one in, Alvin Kallicharan took up the challenge, and the ball flew from the middle of his bat to the middle of Turner's forehead. "I woke up at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital," Turner recalls, chuckling at the notion that a close fielder might have been wearing even a box, let alone a helmet. After a few muddled hours he asked someone what the score was, realised he should be batting, signed himself out and caught a taxi back to the SCG. To that point Turner had played three Tests - the previous winter in England after the inaugural...
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