The accident
There is a catalyst for Pooran’s resolutely positive outlook on life — a turning point that brought home the realisation that his life-long cricket dream (and much more) could be taken away from him in an instant.
Driving home after a training session in early 2015, another car hit him — hard. “I woke from the accident and saw the casts on both legs. The first question I asked is, ‘Could I play cricket again?’” Pooran remembers. “The doctors said that’s a tough question. So, I asked whether I could run again, and they said maybe — but I won’t be able to bend the left leg 100%. Instantly my blood pressure went up.”
His career on the line, and confined to a wheelchair for six months, he found the conviction. “My girlfriend — now wife — Alyssa and her sisters-in-law taught me certain things about faith. I started to pray a little bit more, started to believe a little bit more, asking for the strength to get through each day. I went back to the hospital, and they were surprised that I could bend my leg.”
“I woke from the accident and saw the casts on both legs. The first question I asked is, ‘Could I play cricket again?’”
There is a catalyst for Pooran’s resolutely positive outlook on life — a turning point that brought home the realisation that his life-long cricket dream (and much more) could be taken away from him in an instant.
Driving home after a training session in early 2015, another car hit him — hard. “I woke from the accident and saw the casts on both legs. The first question I asked is, ‘Could I play cricket again?’” Pooran remembers. “The doctors said that’s a tough question. So, I asked whether I could run again, and they said maybe — but I won’t be able to bend the left leg 100%. Instantly my blood pressure went up.”
His career on the line, and confined to a wheelchair for six months, he found the conviction. “My girlfriend — now wife — Alyssa and her sisters-in-law taught me certain things about faith. I started to pray a little bit more, started to believe a little bit more, asking for the strength to get through each day. I went back to the hospital, and they were surprised that I could bend my leg.”
“I woke from the accident and saw the casts on both legs. The first question I asked is, ‘Could I play cricket again?’”
