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KINGSTON, (AP):
LEON GARRICK of Jamaica's national cricket team was injured in a car crash
in St. Catherine parish, cricket officials said yesterday.
The 26-year-old batsman suffered minor head abrasions in a two-vehicle accident
late Monday, said Brian Breese of the Jamaica Cricket Association.
Garrick was released from St. Ann's Bay Hospital on Tuesday and he will be
fit to play in Jamaica's regional season opener against the Leeward Islands
in Anguilla on Jan. 31, Breese said.
Leftarm offspinner Lorenzo Ingram, 20, was a passenger in the car but he did
not suffer any injuries, Breese said.
Ingram, a member of the West Indies under-19 team that played in the World
Youth Cup in Sri Lanka earlier this year, was trying out for Jamaica's national
team.
Garrick and Ingram were returning from a training session in Kingston, cricket
officials said. They were heading toward St. Ann where Garrick lives. His car
collided with a utility truck on a curvy road, Breese said.
It wasn't immediately clear what caused the accident.
Garrick, an attacking opening batsman, made his first-class debut for Jamaica
in the 1996-1997 season and has since scored 2,732 runs in 49 matches including
six centuries.
His best score of 208 not out was made against the West Indies 'B' team in
the 2001 Busta Cup series. In that match, Garrick and Chris Gayle posted a record
stand of 425 runs for the first wicket.
Garrick has played one Test for the West Indies, against South Africa at Sabina
Park in 2001.
Another Jamaican cricketer, Laurie Williams, died in an auto accident in Kingston
in September.
