Nightmare at Chelmsford!
As nights go, they don’t get much worse for Stephen Moore. A day that promised so much in his first big final for Lancashire since his move from Worcestershire in the winter turned bad from the very first ball of the match when the hard hitting opener was given out LBW to a ball that he inside edged onto his pad. Lancashire recovered to post a very competitive 185 and after an outstanding opening bowling spell from the skipper Glen Chapple, despite a back injury sustained while batting, Lancs looked to be in the drivers seat. Then Stephen Moore’s 2nd piece of bad luck for the night happened.
On a slippery outfield under lights and in front of a vociferous Chelmsford crowd, Roger (Moore) as he is affectionately known in the dressing room chased a ball along the mid wicket fence and slid to collect the ball just inside the boundary. As he slid and tried to steady himself on the slippery ground to stand and throw, his right shoulder caught awkwardly in the turf and popped out. It dislocated forward and downwards from the socket. The pain was immediate and by the time I got across the field to where he lay in obvious pain I knew he was in trouble.
With the assistance of paramedics we managed to make him more comfortable with some entonox (gas & air commonly used in childbirth) and support the dislocated shoulder in a sling. Feeling woosy from the pain and pain relief he had to be transported across the ground on the groundsman’s buggy to a waiting ambulance. Once at the hospital he was examined and x-ray’s taken to confirm their was no bony fractures. Once this was clear the doctors were able to sedate Stephen, allowing the muscles in the area to relax and the humerus to be relocated safely into the glenoid.
We arrived back at the team hotel in the early hours of the morning and as they say – bad things happen in 3’s. Lancs had lost their third consecutive T20 final in the last over. All in all, one of those days!!!
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