Cricket hero Phil Tufnell inches from "certain death" after being 'skewered' in 15ft fall
dailystar.co.ukPhil Tufnell has told how he was inches away from “certain death” after falling down a hole on his way to find a boozer.The ex-England ace was on tour in Grenada with pal Robin ‘Judgey’ Smith when he almost came a cropper.Tuffers, 55, said: “Someone had given me and Judgey – the usual suspects looking for a rum punch at half past ten at night – directions to a nice little beach bar.“All we had was the light of the moon.“We’d done the sand bit and were now, inevitably, roaming lost on the cliffs. ‘Judgey,’ I said, ‘are you sure this is the way?’ It would have been nice to have an idea, what with there being a 40-foot drop onto the rocks below.“Eventually we made it down to another beach and found ourselves on a bashed-up old jetty.
It was concrete, mangled and the sea was smashing against it.“And then I disappeared – ‘Aaaghh!’ – like in The Vicar of Dibley when she falls in that puddle.”The former Question of Sport star revealed in his book How Not to be a Cricketer that he went back to the scene of the crime the next day and realised how close he came to being killed.He said: “I’d plunged about 15 feet when I became snagged by my shirt.
Good job, because where the pit bottomed out was anyone’s guess.“Well, good job until I realised what had broken my fall was a razor-sharp strengthening rod.
If I’d fallen at a different angle it would have gone straight through me. Skewered.“I was covered in scratches and bruises but knew I’d been incredibly lucky, just an inch or two away from certain death.”.
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