Thank you for a nice post,OT.......
from my Aussie friend.....
nice to see this...a nice touching story, ...
<<Thank you for saving my life Mr Akhtar
Ike, not only can he bowl - he can certainly catch them as well.
Attaching a nice story and a good deed by your fellow country men.
Best regards from ...... still in Denmark.
Came to see my Mother for Christmas/New Year and her 80th birthday.
Things are not quite to plan - my Mother was diagnosed with ....... a few days ago and is undergoing surgery this week.
We pray for a good outcome. ......--------------------------------------------------------------------
By DAVID MURRAY and NATHAN SCHOLZ 12jan00
A BOY pulled to safety from the path of a taxi outside Brisbane's
Gabba has thanked his rescuer ? Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar.
Tye Ingebrigtsen, 9, said he was too shaken immediately after the
incident to say a word to pace bowler, Akhtar.
But speaking from his Deception Bay home north of Brisbane
yesterday, he said: "Thank you for saving my life Mr Akhtar. I would
have said it last night but I was in shock."
The grade five student created international headlines when he was
pulled from the path of the taxi on Monday night. He had gone to the
Gabba with his family to watch the one-day match between India and
Pakistan.
After the match, he was caught up in a throng of more than 200
autograph hunters and found himself in the second lane of busy
Vulture Street. Akhtar pulled Tye aside just as the taxi seemed
certain to bowl him over.
The paceman, who was recalled to the Pakistan team at the weekend
despite a ban for chucking, said the boy had been "very close" to
being run over. "He was coming down the middle of the road. I just
grabbed him and pulled him up," Akhtar said.
"He was going to nearly die, but thankfully he's safe."
Akhtar shrugged off suggestions he was a hero: "I can't say that," he
said before leaving Brisbane.
Sergeant John Dinnen, who saw the lightning rescue, said Akhtar had
lifted the boy into the air with one arm and pulled him to safety, just 60cm from the taxi.
"He certainly saved that boy. The child would have been struck," he
said. >> |
