How cricketer Claude Tozer was bowled by a bullet

By Malcolm Knox
Updated May 28 2015 - 10:18am, first published May 22 2015 - 10:42pm

The action we see on sporting fields each weekend is the tip of a vast iceberg of private lives. There might be a perception that sportspeople exist in a social-media fishbowl, but the truth is that the most sensitive information stays in-house, unless there is a blow-up that draws in legal, police or other authorities. Today's coaches speak the mantra of "turning players into better people"; what this actually means, from day to day, is a lot of time spent helping young men and women deal with complicated personal and emotional conflicts. Ever wondered why tipping competitions are so hard? One reason is that there is a critical mass of behind-closed-doors trouble that you don't know about until later, if at all.

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