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Phillip Hughes, cricketer
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Very sad to hear that this young man has not pulled through following his injury on the pitch the other day.
Perhaps they will reconsider the safety helmets they wear now.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/phillip-hughes-dead-australian-cricketer-dies-after-bouncer-at-scg-20141127-11vcpt.html
Perhaps they will reconsider the safety helmets they wear now.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/phillip-hughes-dead-australian-cricketer-dies-after-bouncer-at-scg-20141127-11vcpt.html
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It is very sad indeed. I heard that the ball hit him below the ear though as he turned his head, damaging his main artery. I don't know how true that is, but it sounds like a really freak accident, and I'm not sure that the helmet design is to blame.
RIP Phil thoughts go out to your family and friends.
My thoughts and prayers also go to the bowler in this tragic accident.
I think it's partly because I was listening to an interview with an Australian cricket journalist who knew him really well, a couple of days ago on 5live.
He described how he was and what his relationships with the other cricketers were like and he choked up a couple of times while talking about him.
He was at the match and had been on the phone to Michael Clarke a minute before the accident and had been saying "hughsey's on 63 and looking good for your place mate" about the test place. He put the phone down and the accident happened. He described how they all thought he was just going to shake it off like so many cricketers do when they are hit, and how sickening it was when he went down.
I can't remember his name, but I feel for him today. Remembering his voice when talking about the accident, I know he will be personally devastated.
RIP Hughsey.
My thoughts go out to the bowler, too. He must be feeling really dreadful about this.
He was a left handed bat. If he had been batting right handed it wouldn't have hit the artery.
It was just an incredibly tragic, totally unpredictable accident.
I cannot bring to imagine how poor Sean Abbott must feel too. That poor man.
Awful, just awful and so so sad.
Rest easy Hughsey. X
This is a very sad freak accident though, and hopefully he knew nothing about what was happening to him.
*shakes head* the UK's favourite reaction to anything "BAN IT!"
The bowler must be devastated. I imagine he'll never be the same again.
I hope the bowler and all the players manage to get over it.
Our cricket helmets look like a derivative of a riding hat with a face guard.
A quick google of Baseball helmets seems to show ear protection at the side.
Since it is a similar game with similar risks maybe time for a rethink?
The game has been around for centuries and one person dies suddenly there needs to be a rethink?
It was a freak accident that probably won't happen again.
Mind you they probably either wore a cloth cap or no head covering at all then (1970s).
If a version of the helmet, with ear protection, was available then cricketers would still be free to decide if they wanted to use it or not.
As I'm sure anyone else who has played the game will tell you, the last thing you want is something that means you can't move your head freely as that will make things a lot more dangerous.
You want to make sure you can effectively get out of the way first and use the helmet as a back up.
If you start to design helmets that are designed to be hit as the primary function you're going to see a lot more injuries.
More golf balls hit people's heads and they haven't banned that boring excuse for a sport.
Being able to hear shouts from team mates is also hugely important.
Plenty of overnight cricket expert have sprung who know nothing about the game, never played it, never watched, yet pushing for the sport to be banned.
Waiting for the 1st online petition wanting ban fast bowling / bouncers
"This was a freakish accident, because it was an injury to the neck that caused haemorrhage in the brain," he said. "This condition is incredibly rare. It's called vertebral artery dissection, leading to subarachnoid haemorrhage - that's the medical term for it.
"If you look in the literature there's only about 100 cases ever reported, so this is incredibly rare. Only one previous case ever reported as the result of a cricket ball. So I think it's important to realise that yes, we need to review all our procedures and equipment, but this is an incredibly rare type of injury."
Dr Grabs said it was unlikely St Vincent's Hospital had ever seen an injury of that nature.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/803763.html
Another cricketer, Darryn Randall, died in October last year after he was hit on the side of the head by the ball.