King Tendulkar Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Allrounder desperate to appear in World Cup Not sure wether to laud his passion to play or hammer him for taking it to extremes. To cut your finger of to enable one to play in a tournament seems a bit nuts to me! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jacob Oram is willing to cut off his injured ring finger if it is going to prevent him from playing in the World Cup. Oram will try specially designed splints and pain-killers to ease the pain, but if the problem won't go away he will consider an amputation. "If it means cutting the finger off, if that's the worse-case scenario, if that's the last resort, I'll do that, there's no way I'm missing this," he told NZPA. Oram suffered the break during the first Chappell-Hadlee Trophy match and he will not test it until the New Zealand squad's first practice session in Barbados on Saturday. However, Oram is unsure how his finger is healing under the protective strapping. "The plan is get to the West Indies, whip it off and assess the inflammation," he told the agency. "We've got a couple of techniques in terms of taping and a couple of guards which are a lot thinner so they can fit into a batting glove. I'm confident it'll be fine." He is more worried by the prospect of another skyed catch after his doctors doubted he would be troubled by balls coming straight at him. Oram said the initial impact of the high chance at Wellington did not hurt and it was not until he looked down that he knew something was wrong. "You know when your finger's not going straight it's bad news," he said. "I thought the worst straight away - two weeks out from the World Cup and you're finger's going at right angles. I've seen one replay where I look happy and then I'm swearing - it didn't go down well with mum." Link to comment
Dirty_South Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC just read this in Cricinfo.... what a Spirit!!! Link to comment
Gaurav Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Ram Ram it's only a figure of speech. He is not really going to cut it! Excellent motivation in the NZ team! Link to comment
talksport Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC They really want it...Dont they. I would like India to beat NZ in Semis Link to comment
Raj Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Can you imagine any Indian player doing the above? They get a slight graze and they act as if they need surgery... Link to comment
DesiChap Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Its all talk seeing is believing Link to comment
King Tendulkar Posted February 28, 2007 Author Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Would any of you chop your finger off, if it was guaranteed you would then play for India in the WC? Link to comment
jf1gp_1 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Just a figure of speech lets see if he can walk the talk but if he actual does it then in my eyes he is an idiot not hero. Link to comment
apocalypse Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Is he comparing himself to Ekalavya? Link to comment
Gaurav Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Would any of you chop your finger off' date=' if it was guaranteed you would then play for India in the WC?[/quote'] Well if anyone does (including Oram) then please video it and post the gore on youtube :wtg: Link to comment
Holysmoke Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Can you imagine any Indian player doing the above? They get a slight graze and they act as if they need surgery... forget Indian player, think of vaughn and tresco :shrug: Link to comment
Holysmoke Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Even so, Waqar Younis managed to become one of the greatest fast bowlers in history despite having just four fingers and a stump on his left hand. Waqar, however, lost his finger in a canal during a childhood accident, rather than in a doctor's surgery mere days before a World Cup. Link to comment
Rajiv Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Bret lee is getting ideas too now Link to comment
ViVeriUniversumVivusVici Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Would any of you chop your finger off' date=' if it was guaranteed you would then play for India in the WC?[/quote'] i d be willing to spare the smallest digit of my hands, and the smallest toes on my right foot (need my left for soccer). and yeah, i d be willing to shave my head too. anything to wear the blues. Link to comment
Gaurav Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC :wtg: kya josh! Makes Oram look like a bachua :hic: Link to comment
Count Dooku Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Even so' date=' Waqar Younis managed to become one of the greatest fast bowlers in history despite having just four fingers and a stump on his left hand. Waqar, however, lost his finger in a canal during a childhood accident, rather than in a doctor's surgery mere days before a World Cup.[/quote'] Well what has left hand got to do with bowling right-handed? Unless he was using the left hand for something else? :chin: BTW: Oram is nuts. Chopping off a finger - :duh: Link to comment
Holysmoke Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Even so' date=' Waqar Younis managed to become one of the greatest fast bowlers in history despite having just four fingers and a stump on his left hand. Waqar, however, lost his finger in a canal during a childhood accident, rather than in a doctor's surgery mere days before a World Cup.[/quote'] Well what has left hand got to do with bowling right-handed? Unless he was using the left hand for something else? :chin: BTW: Oram is nuts. Chopping off a finger - :duh: Oram bowls right handed too.. and he's cutting off his left little finger... Link to comment
theguyinallblue Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Kumble bowled in WI with a broken Jaw...and took the wicket of Lara.. Link to comment
gs Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Can you imagine any Indian player doing the above? They get a slight graze and they act as if they need surgery... forget Indian player, think of vaughn and tresco :shrug: Tresco's problem is in his brain - they should amputate that out!!! :wtg: Link to comment
gs Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Re: Oram willing to amputate finger to play in WC Bret lee is getting ideas too now Chopping the knee/ankle? :huh: Link to comment
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