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It’s something that left Leach fearing for his life when he suffered from sepsis following a dodgy chicken burger in New Zealand in November 2019.The left-arm spinner told The Times: “They took me to a medical centre and I was sick a lot on the way.
I remember being on the bed at the medical centre and our security guy, Sam Dickason, was with me as the doctors were talking outside the room and I said to him, ‘I’m in a really bad way here.’ He said, ‘I know, I know...’“The doctors came back in and, when they measured my heart rate, temperature and blood pressure, they were all really bad and they were getting worse.
They called an ambulance, and I was rushed to hospital. There was a period when I was thinking to myself, ‘I really want to fall asleep’, but I was telling myself, ‘Don’t fall asleep.’ I was really unsure what was going on. Will England make it a whitewash vs New Zealand?
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