EXCLUSIVEFormer 最高の，を越す-class cricketer cheats death after he is attacked by a ヒョウ and saved by his loyal dog... years after he had a の近くに 遭遇（する） with a crocodile

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A former 最高の，を越す class cricketeer has cheated death again after 存在 attacked by ヒョウ ? years after he woke to find an eight foot long crocodile hiding under his bed. Zimbabwean all rounder

Guy Whittall, 51, needed 緊急 外科 after 存在 不正に mauled by the big cat while out with his 信用d dog Chikara, who was also bitten as he tired to save him.

Guy - best remembered for his unbeaten 1997 二塁打 century of 203 not out against New Zealand - was attacked while trekking through the conservancy he runs at Humani, Zimbabwe.

He runs the safari 商売／仕事 - based at the junction of the Turgwe and Save rivers in the south eats of the country - with his father Guy and where he woke one morning to find a sleeping crocodile under his bed.

Guy's wife 地位，任命するd 劇の images of the 最新の attack on social マスコミ, showing Guy 存在 扱う／治療するd in the bush by medics with 包帯s on his 長，率いる, before he was airlifted to Milton Park Hospital in the 資本／首都 Harare.

Guy Whittall, 51, needed 緊急 外科 after 存在 不正に mauled by the big cat

Guy's wife 地位，任命するd 劇の images of the 最新の attack on social マスコミ, showing Guy 存在 扱う／治療するd in the bush by medics with 包帯s on his 長，率いる

Guy 以前 woke one morning to find a sleeping crocodile under his bed

Hannah Stooks-Whittall 追加するd he had 'lost a lot of 血' but was saved by 'faithful K9 Chikara' who 'was mauled by the ヒョウ getting the cat of Guy'.

A later picture showed Guy in hospital giving a thumbs up with his 長，率いる and 手渡すs still 包帯d and Hannah wrote he had 'come out of theatre' with his 負傷させるs 'cleaned and restitched'.

Speaking 排他的に to MailOnline, Hannah said: 'He really is one lucky man, first he had the crocodile and now the ヒョウ, he really is the cat with nine lives.

'He was so fortunate that Chikara was there to help him and get the ヒョウ off him さもなければ who knows how it might have ended.

'We are so 感謝する to him, and Chikara going to get some extra chicken as a 扱う／治療する. He's got to see the vet as he has a few scratches and but he should be ok, he's in better 形態／調整 than Guy.

'Fortunately, Guy is up in bed and talking, he's telling anyone who will listen how he 格闘するd with a ヒョウ but we all know it was 負かす／撃墜する to Chikara.'

It is not the first time that Guy has had a 小衝突 with a wild animal - in 2013 he 攻撃する，衝突する the headlines after pictures 現れるd of a 300lbs crocodile sleeping under his bed, while he was still in it.

Zimbabwean batsman Guy Whittall celebrates after 得点する／非難する／２０ing his fourth 実験（する） century in 2001

The eight foot animal had こそこそ動くd into his 宿泊する and spent the entire night lying 静かに, just fractions beneath an oblivious Guy.

The beast - a Nile crocodile - had managed to stay hidden for more than eight hours 夜通し.

The に引き続いて morning Guy had even perched on the 辛勝する／優位 of his bed, with his feet dangling over the 辛勝する／優位, just インチs from the crocodile's 直面する, as he organised his day.

But he remained oblivious to his uninvited guest and was only 警報d when he was enjoying some breakfast in the kitchen and heard the petrified 叫び声をあげるs of a housemaid.

Guy was out with his 信用d dog Chikara (pictured in 2022), who was also bitten as he tired to save him

A later picture showed Guy in hospital giving a thumbs up with his 長，率いる and 手渡すs still 包帯d and Hannah wrote he had 'come out of theatre' with his 負傷させるs 'cleaned and restitched'

At the time he said: 'The really disconcerting thing about the whole episode is the fact that I was sitting on the 辛勝する／優位 of the bed that morning, 明らかにする foot and just centimetres away from the croc.

'Crocodiles are 専門家s at hiding, that's why they have 生き残るd on Earth for so long and why they are the ultimate 殺し屋s in water.

'They know how to keep 静かな and go unnoticed, it's in their nature.

'The crocodile （機の）カム from the Turgwe River which is a couple of kilometres from the house.

'They often wander about the bush 特に when it's 冷淡な and raining. I think he liked it under the bed because it was warm.'

He was 軍隊d to call in some of his co-労働者s who helped 除去する the crocodile from its new lair and 解放（する） him 支援する into a nearby dam.

The eight foot animal had こそこそ動くd into his 宿泊する and spent the entire night lying 静かに, just fractions beneath an oblivious Guy

Guy said: 'Of course he resisted 存在 roped and 運ぶ／漁獲高d out from under the bed, that's only natural.

'Catching and 安全な・保証するing a croc of any size on land though is a 公正に／かなり straight 今後 事件／事情／状勢 and we are experienced in that.

'The only real danger is getting bitten because it can't 溺死する you.

'The most important thing is to get its snout roped and 安全な・保証するd and then it's just a 事柄 of 抑制するing it and covering its 注目する，もくろむs, to 静める it 負かす／撃墜する.

'Bigger crocs 要求する more 動員可能数 明白に though. When roped they thrash around frantically and are 極端に powerful. 'I just remember thinking 'goodness gracious, that's one for the 調書をとる／予約するs'.