Starc reaches settlement in insurance fight for missing 2018 IPL

Star Australian pacer Mitchell Starc has reached a settlement in his fight for an insurance payout of USD 1.53 million for losing his IPL deal with Kolkata Knight Riders due to an injury in 2018. According to a report in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’, “The settlement came on Monday, just two days before the case was due to be heard in the Victorian County Court.” “Terms of the agreement, including a financial settlement, were not yet released but are due to be filed within days.” READ | Starc, who bagged a USD 1.8 million contract with KKR ahead of the 2018 IPL, couldn’t play a single match due to a right leg injury. Starc’s manager Andrew Fraser had tried mediation in May and furnished video footage of the second Test against South Africa to prove that he got injured real-time and deserves the payout but the talks failed. Starc took the help of orthopaedic 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’” However, Doctor Seamus Dalton, on behalf of the insurer, said: “In my opinion the plaintiff did not suffer an injury or accident on 10 March 2018.Onset appears to have been gradual and symptoms continued over the course of the Test.”