4️⃣9️⃣ years ago ➖ A horrible incident in Auckland, where New Zealand tailender Ewen Chatfield deflected a short one from England's Peter Lever into his left temple. Chatfield passed out and swallowed his tongue - his heart even stopped beating briefly - and he would not have survived but for the quick work of England physio Bernard Thomas. The last pair of Chatfield and Geoff Howarth had frustrated England in their pursuit of victory; when Chatfield retired hurt, the match was England's. A hairline fracture of the skull meant Chatfield did not play again that season, but there were no lasting ill-effects: after this, his debut, he played another 42 Tests and took 123 wickets with his nagging medium-pacers.