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Fred Titmus Loses Four Toes in a Motorboat — Barbados, January 1968

England off-spinner Fred Titmus lost four toes on his left foot on 7 January 1968 when his foot was caught in the propeller of a motorboat during a rest-day excursion in Barbados. He was immediately taken to hospital, operated on, and — in a feat of recuperation that stunned his team — was bowling again within a year, his spinning action apparently unchanged by the loss of the toes.