Braving heart attack to score a half-century

LONDON: A cricketer kept on batting despite a heart attack because he stood to make his first half-century of the season.

Unfortunately, Jim Young was still on 48 when he ran out of partners. An ambulance then took him to hospital in Harlow, Essex, and later, to a specialist unit at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London where he had surgery, The Daily Telegraph said.

Now back home in Westmill, Hertfordshire, 57-year-old Young admitted on Thursday: "I think I was a bit of an idiot really. I should have stopped straight away because it could have finished me off there and then."

The electrician was playing for his village against a Bishop's Stortford side on August 5 when he felt crushing pains in the chest.

He was on 32 as he dropped to his knees and announced that he suspected he was having an angina attack.