Mitchell Starc provides video footage to prove injury

Mitchell Starc provides video footage to prove injury for US$ 1.43 million IPL insurance payout

Starc had filed a lawsuit against his insurers in April last year. The insurers, however, had disputed the timing of the injury in the second Test at Port Elizabeth.

Australian pacer Mitchell Starc has furnished video footage of the second Test against South Africa in 2018 to prove that he got injured in real-time and deserves an insurance payout of US$ 1.53 million for losing his IPL deal with Kolkata Knight Riders.

Starc had filed a lawsuit against his insurers in April last year. The insurers, however, had disputed the timing of the injury in the second Test at Port Elizabeth.

File image of Australa pace spearhead Mitchell Starc. Reuters

The 'Sydney Morning Herald' reported that civil trial has been rescheduled to 12 August after mediation talks broke down last month when Starc's manager Andrew Fraser provided footage from Fox Sports of the speedster bowling in the second Test.

The left-arm pacer had bagged a US$ 1.8 million contract ahead of the 2018 IPL.

"The delay came after lawyers for the insurers argued they did not have enough time to assess the footage from March 10, one clip lasting one minute 37 seconds, and the second 7:25 minutes," the newspaper report said.

However, Starc's legal team argued that the insurers had 13 months to "review the case and seek footage."

Starc needs to prove that "he suffered a single, sudden and unexpected event which occurred at an identifiable time and place".

Starc had gone on to play the third Test of the series.

Both sides have filed medical reports claiming the opposite.

Starc took the help of orthopedic surgeon Russel Miller, who said the injury was "complex and multifactorial" but "it is likely, on the balance of probabilities, that at specific injury occurred on 10/03/2018 which was associated with extreme physical activity including bowling on a pitch with uneven footmarks'."

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