When you want to save two so bad that you don’t go back for your unattached prosthetic leg, then you’ll be successful.
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It may not have the same snappiness to it that motivational speaker Eric Thomas’ famous “When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful” has, but for English Physical Disabilities (PD) player Liam Thomas, it’s how he’s become an internet sensation.
Fielding at deep backwards square during the final of the ICC Academy Dubai Invitational T20 against Pakistan last week, Thomas chased down a sweep but, while diving for the ball, lost his prosthetic leg.
No matter.
English cricketer loses artificial leg midgame, keeps going https://t.co/v2YymwdpC4 pic.twitter.com/zouQCjBRWZ
— CNN (@CNN) October 30, 2016
Unlike Thomas, the English couldn’t get the job done, losing by three wickets.
This is great - now both @LMThomas7 and @Jordiboy11 are renowned for being legless!!
— Iain Nairn (@idnairn) October 30, 2016
