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Pharmacist puts the finger on cure
(Extract from: The Age, Phil Wilkins, 05/01/2002)
Over the years, many spin bowlers have been troubled by split fingers as they tried to crank more turn from the ball.
Former Australian captain Ian Chappell recalled watching the former 14-Test leg-spinning all-rounder Colin McCool bowl until blood splattered his creams from the open wound from his spinning finger.
The great West Indian Lance Gibbs, the 307 wicket-taker in Tests, developed a huge callus on his right forefinger, often with a gaping gash across the finger. Australia's off-spinner Tim May was another who learnt to bowl through the pain barrier.
Early in his representative career, the former Australian Test captain Richie Benaud was also troubled by the skin being ripped away from his forefinger and ring finger.
Benaud was in New Zealand when he entered a pharmacy in Timaru to obtain a prescription for dengue fever, an unfortunate legacy from the Australian cricketers' tour of India.
Seeing Benaud's battered fingers, the pharmacist inquired of the leg-spinner the cause of the injuries.
Benaud explained his predicament, whereupon the pharmacist suggested a remedy that returned servicemen had used effectively to counter tropical ulcers: oily calamine lotion followed by boracic acid on the open wounds.
"I never looked back. We went to South Africa and I bowled 25 overs a day in the nets and in matches, and never had any more trouble," cricket's doyen recalled. "It was the best thing to have happened to me."