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Video of Aussie cricketer getting hit on the head and dying
Posted on 11/28/14 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 11/28/14 at 12:44 pm
Warning: You are actually watching the final moments of someone's life....view it at your own discretion. The video is from a news segment.
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Unlike baseball, in cricket it is perfectly normal for a bowler to aim to hit a batsman's body or his head. A bouncer (a ball that goes over the batsman's shoulder but is below the top of his head) is a ball that is bowled with the aim of trying to scare the batsman a bit and also is part of the normal variation that bowler has at his disposal. A bowler is allowed to bowl two bouncers every 6 balls.
Thousands, if not millions of bouncers have been bowled in cricket for over 140 years now and many batsmen have been hit on the head and face and have walked away with cracked skulls and broken noses and jaws. Nobody (at least no as high profile as Hughes) has died on a cricket pitch after getting hit while batting. Just think of what the bowler Sean Abbot is going through at this moment. He will live the rest of his life wondering what if he hadn't bowled a bouncer or if he had bowled it a little shorter or little wider....Hughes would have probably harmlessly let the ball go to the wicket keeper (catcher). He just killed a man and he has to live with it forever.
#putoutyourbats
The cricket world mouns in pictures
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Video 2
Unlike baseball, in cricket it is perfectly normal for a bowler to aim to hit a batsman's body or his head. A bouncer (a ball that goes over the batsman's shoulder but is below the top of his head) is a ball that is bowled with the aim of trying to scare the batsman a bit and also is part of the normal variation that bowler has at his disposal. A bowler is allowed to bowl two bouncers every 6 balls.
Thousands, if not millions of bouncers have been bowled in cricket for over 140 years now and many batsmen have been hit on the head and face and have walked away with cracked skulls and broken noses and jaws. Nobody (at least no as high profile as Hughes) has died on a cricket pitch after getting hit while batting. Just think of what the bowler Sean Abbot is going through at this moment. He will live the rest of his life wondering what if he hadn't bowled a bouncer or if he had bowled it a little shorter or little wider....Hughes would have probably harmlessly let the ball go to the wicket keeper (catcher). He just killed a man and he has to live with it forever.
#putoutyourbats
The cricket world mouns in pictures
This post was edited on 11/28/14 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 11/28/14 at 12:50 pm to stendulkar
Son of a bitch that sucks
Posted on 11/28/14 at 12:52 pm to stendulkar
What are the balls made of? Are they like baseballs or the rubbery balls they use in batting cages?
Posted on 11/28/14 at 12:53 pm to Sellecks Moustache
They are hard as a rock, not sure the material though.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 12:59 pm to Sellecks Moustache
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Are they like baseballs or the rubbery balls they use in batting cages?
They are like baseballs. Covered with leather on the outside, but hard as a rock. About the same size and weight I imagine.
The sad part about this incident is that like all modern cricketers he was wearing a helmet, but the ball missed the helmet and hit him in the most vulnerable part of the skull behind the ear. Before helmets became more common in the 1980s, batsmen played with just a cap or a hat. They got hit even back then, but the extent of the injury depends on where you get hit. Sadly in Hughes' case, it was a fatal blow on an innocuous bouncer.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 1:07 pm to stendulkar
I have a cricket ball
it's heavier than a baseball but is kinda 'rubbery' but still hard.
saw this shortly after it happened and by all accounts is a "freak accident"
it's heavier than a baseball but is kinda 'rubbery' but still hard.
saw this shortly after it happened and by all accounts is a "freak accident"
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