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England cricket star Matt Prior prevented a young English man jumping from a Sydney bridge in a suicide bid.

The man was teetering on the ledge of the Pyrmont Bridge in Darling Harbour when Prior spotted him as he returned from a charity night out.

Together with England security officer Terry Minish, he pulled the British man off the ledge as he was about to jumped and kept him on the bridge until the police arrived.

“We just did what anybody would do in that situation,” Prior told the Telegraph.

“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 wicketkeeper had been at a Barmy Army charity function with Stuart Broad in the early hours of Wednesday morning when it happened.

Prior who noticed the young man had taken off his shoes and had thrown his phone, wallet and passport into the water.

The England stumper approached him with caution since he was acting erratically and started a conversation with him.

Moments later he made a motion to jump at which point Prior and Minish grabbed him and wrestled him to the floor on the safety of the bridge.

The security officer from Eastern Star International, who provide security for England players on tour, then called the police while Prior and Broad tried to calm him down.

The pair discovered the man was from Cheltenham and tried to engage with him over the course of nearly an hour until the officers arrived.

"Walking back to the hotel we spotted a young man on the edge of the bridge about to jump," said Minish.

"He was saying he just wanted to drown.

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"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."

New South Wales Police declined to comment.

On a difficult tour for Prior personally and for the team as a whole, he can leave Australia on the highest note having acted so quickly and bravely.

Having fronted up to England fans earlier that evening along with Ben Stokes, Joe Root and Gary Ballance, Prior and Broad helped raise another £8,000 for the Broad Appeal in aid of Motor Neurone Disease.

Despite their failures on the field, the players certainly did their bit with appreciative fans off it with Prior delivering a heartfelt apology to them on stage for the 5-0 defeat.

It was on their way back from the event that Prior was called into action one last time Down Under and he performed his role to perfection.