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The Dauntless Nari Contractor much of the blood clotting on the brain by surgery. Simultaneously, an emergency call was sent to Trinidad to summon the specialist.
When the specialist arrived and examined Contractor, he found that the process of blood clotting was about to begin at another section of his brain. Hence after eight hours of surgery by the local surgeon, the patient, who was under the impact of a paralytic bout, had to undergo another operation for which blood transfusion was necessary.
Frank Warrel, the generous Captain of the West Indies team was the first to donate blood. He was followed by the Indian players Chandu Borde, P. G. ('Bapu') Nadkarni and Polly Nariman Contractor Umrigar. That night the cricket lovers of the Barbados Island attended church for a special mass to pray for the life of Nari Contractor, the Indian skipper. Nari's left side remained paralysed for ten days and his vision was badly affected as well.
Yet Contractor's life was ultimately saved. On return to India, he had to undergo a third operation, this time at Vellore in Southern India.
A player who was saved three times from the jaws of death would normally bid goodbye to the game and retire
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