YEOVIL NEWS: Help for Heroes disabled cricketer left gutted after cricket gear is stolen

A FORMER serviceman who was left seriously wounded while on active duty in Afghanistan has appealed for thieves to return some important belongings which are helping him on the road to recovery – his cricket gear.

It was back in 2009 in Afghanistan when Michael Day was seriously wounded by a grenade while he was deployed as a sniper. He was left with a fractured back, brain damage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

“It’s been a long road and I’m still suffering now,” he said.

But he has just recently started playing for the Help for Heroes charity’s disabled cricket team with other former servicemen – something which has been helping his rehabilitation.

But Michael, 33, has been left angry after thieves stole his cricket equipment when they broke into his truck in Yeovil on Monday (June 26, 2016) night.

“I’m devastated,” he told Yeovil Press. “I serve my country and get injured; I had just begun playing disabled cricket to try and better myself and this happens.

“I was supposed to be playing this weekend for H4H, so I would appeal to anyone who knows where my cricket gear is to let me know or tell the police.”

Michael added: “Cricket has been helping me to move on from the difficult past few years. I feel stripped with my cricket gear having been stolen. This has hurt me to the core – absolutely gutted.”

The kit which has been stolen includes Adidas cricket pads; a Kookaboora bag, arm pad, thigh pad and gloves; a Punisher bat Slazenger; and a number of Help for Heroes cricket tops.

If anyone can help – please call police on 101. Or if you are the thieves yourselves and reading this…..just think about what you have done and perhaps, maybe, you might decide to return it.

PHOTO – TOP: Michael Day.

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