Matt Prior and Stuart Broad prevent young Englishman's suicide attempt

Matt Prior (L) and Stuart Broad save their countryman’s life in Australia

English cricketers Matt Prior and Stuart Broad are believed to have been involved in rescuing a young Englishman from his suicide bid near the team hotel in Sydney on Tuesday.

According to the Telegraph, Prior and Broad spotted a man who was about to throw himself off the Pyrmot Bridge in Darling Harbour, while returning from a Barmy Army fundraiser for the ‘Broad Appeal’, a charity, raising money and awareness to combat Motor Neurone Disease. They tried to talk to him but when the man appeared to be about to throw himself off the bridge, Prior and Broad are believed to have grabbed him and tackled him to the ground.

The two cricketers then sat with the man and chatted with him till the New South Wales police arrived.

“We just did what anybody would do in that situation,” said Prior. “We were trying to help a bloke who was struggling and in a bad way. I look back and I’m just glad we left the bar when we did and we were there for him.”

The unnamed British man had already thrown his phone, passport and wallet in the water and was about to throw himself down too when Prior and Broad accompanied by the team’s security officer Terry Minish spotted him.

Minish said : “Walking back to the hotel we spotted a young man on the edge of the bridge about to jump. He was saying he just wanted to drown. Matt helped to pull him down off the edge of the bridge and sat with him until the police arrived.

“It all happened very quickly and we acted on impulse. It is what you do in these situations.”

The New South Wales police did not divulge any further details and declined to comment on the matter.