Cricket-Ex-Australia test bowler MacGill kidnapped for ransom - reports


  • Cricket
  • Wednesday, 05 May 2021

FILE PHOTO: Australia's Stuart MacGill prepares to bowl a delivery during a practice session at Kingsmead in Durban, South Africa March 23, 2006. Australia take on hosts South Africa in the second of a three test cricket match series Friday. REUTERS/Howard Burditt

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian police arrested four men in dawn raids on Wednesday in connection with the alleged kidnap and assault of former test cricketer Stuart MacGill, media reported.

The 50-year-old former leg-spinner was allegedly abducted near his home in Sydney on April 14 and taken to another part of the city where he was beaten and threatened with a gun, the media said.

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