/ 30 April 2000

EDDIE BARLOW HOSPITALISED

EDDIE Barlow, serving as Bangladesh’s national cricket coach, has been admitted to a military hospital with a brain hemorrhage but his condition is stable, a hospital doctor said on Sunday. The doctor at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) confirmed that the South African cricketer was undergoing treatment and that he was in a satisfactory condition, but gave no further details. Sports officials earlier said Eddie Barlow was rushed to a private clinic and then to the intensive care unit of CMH late Saturday after he collapsed at his residence in Gulshan diplomatic district. “He is out of danger … but the left side of his body is still paralysed,” Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) general secretary Syed Ashraful Huq was quoted as saying by the Daily Star. Eddie Barlow joined the BCB early this year as cricket coach for Bangladesh. He spent two hours on Friday, the first day of a month-long training session, with Bangladeshi players selected for next month’s four-nation Asia Cup cricket.