India, May 21 -- A bowling coach in England has demanded 200,000 pounds (around Rs.2.6 crore) from a cricket board after he accused it of negligence that resulted in him picking up several injuries on the job.

57-year-old Andrew Woodward, a former Derbyshire bowler, also claimed that because of the injuries he picked up, he suffered on other fronts too. That he has not been mentally sound post the accident.

The matter, now in court, happened in early 2023 when Woodward had to lug a heavy bowling machine for an Under-12 session at Ryde School on the Isle of Wight, an expensive private school which can cost a pupil up to 45,000 pounds a year. In the process, he lost control of the heavy machinery and picked up injuries in his lower back, ...