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\nGuy Whittall, the former Zimbabwe allrounder, has undergone emergency surgery in Harare after being mauled by a leopard while on a hunting expedition.
\nThe incident, which occurred earlier this week, comes several years after Whittall survived another brush with the local wildlife, when an eight-foot crocodile was found to have been under his bed while he slept.
\nWhittall, who played 46 Tests and 147 ODIs for Zimbabwe between 1993 and 2003, now runs a safari business with his family in Humani, in the South East of the country, where it is understood he was tracking a leopard that had previously been wounded by a client.
\nHis wife, Hannah Stooks-Whittall, confirmed the incident in a Facebook post, accompanied by graphic pictures of Whittall being treated in the bush after sustaining cuts to his arms and legs, as well as a 5-inch gash to his head.
\nA later picture showed Whittall in hospital with his head heavily bandaged, but giving a thumbs-up to the camera. He lost \u201ca lot of blood\u201d in the attack, Hannah added, but his injuries might have been even more severe had it not been for his \u201cfaithful K9\u201d, Chikara, who helped to wrestle the leopard off him.
\n\u201cChikara [is] coming up tomorrow to the vet after being mauled by the leopard and getting the cat off Guy!\u201d she wrote. \u201cVery special boy.
\n\u201cGuy and I are overwhelmed by the hundreds of messages of well-wishers after Guy\u2019s run in with a wounded leopard earlier today,\u201d she added. \u201cWe are very fortunate that he was stabilized at Hippo Clinic by wonderful staff. He was then Airlifted from Buffalo Range by Ace Ambulance to Harare, then transferred to Milton Park Hospital for treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Humani Guy Whittall, the former Zimbabwe allrounder, has undergone emergency surgery in Harare after being mauled by a leopard while on a hunting expedition. The incident, which occurred earlier this week, comes several years after Whittall survived another brush with the local wildlife, when an eight-foot crocodile was found to have been under his bed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n