re: Video of Aussie cricketer getting hit on the head and dying

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Are they like baseballs or the rubbery balls they use in batting cages?

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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.