Australain Cricketer Phil Hughes in a critical condition after being struck in a game

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http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/phil-hughes-knocked-out-by-bouncer-at-scg/story-fndpt0dy-1227134397193

There's a few people I've spoken to here about cricket so I thought I'd post this. Hughes was hit in the head below his helmet yesterday by a bouncer by Sean Abbott and had to be resuscitated on the field, he's had surgery and is still listed as critical.

Really sad and I hope he pulls through, he had a good shot at making next weeks first test against India.

[BlackWhiteGreen]

This shit is so scary, I've been hit before (obviously not at that pace, closer to 60mph than 85) and you don't really feel it, so you think you're invincible. Then something like this happens every 5 years or so and you start practicing your ducking again. Hope he makes a full recovery.

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This shit is so scary, I've been hit before (obviously not at that pace, closer to 60mph than 85) and you don't really feel it, so you think you're invincible. Then something like this happens every 5 years or so and you start practicing your ducking again. Hope he makes a full recovery.

I've never been hit in the head playing, been hit in the ribs and the like and that's bad enough and I've never faced anything close to real pace. My Dad was hit in the head fielding in close back in the day and had to be taken to hospital with a concussion. No damage though luckily.

Some of the media has been pretty disgraceful with this too, one outlet was tweeting they couldn't confirm if he was actually alive any more and others were trying to get past security and screens that were trying to stop the press from getting photos while the paramedics worked on him at the ground.

[Draz]

Cricket is dangerous man. You just don't know when you'll get hit but when you do its over.

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Still in a critical condition and in an induced coma. Their now investigating why the ambulance which only had to come 800metres took over 20 minutes to arrive and why the ambulance service say they weren't called for 15 minutes but the officials at the ground say they had to call a second time to get an ambulance to actually come.

[Im Still Ballin]

****ing dangerous sport... I've known guys who've been clean hit and it ain't pretty. Makes you think in some of the test matches where the fielders come extremely close around the batsmen... Usually when its a spin bowler, if the batsmen gets a clean hit you'd be praying not to be destroyed by the ball

[Im Still Ballin]

Even catching a cricket ball can hurt your hands if you don't use the right technique. It's like baseball without the gloves

[dude77]

they said he got hit in the back of the head ? :eek: not good not good at all

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Even catching a cricket ball can hurt your hands if you don't use the right technique. It's like baseball without the gloves

Cricket balls are harder than baseballs too. Plus people are trying to hit you. It's really the one sport I can think of I'd be physically scared to face a professional in. Maybe car/motorbike racing too I guess.

[Draz]

It honestly IS that dangerous. Stepping up at bat against a pitcher for baseball and a bowler in cricket is two different scenarios. I'll be scared shitless too. How much do these guys get paid anyways?

[ROCSteady]

Hindi baseball

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It honestly IS that dangerous. Stepping up at bat against a pitcher for baseball and a bowler in cricket is two different scenarios. I'll be scared shitless too. How much do these guys get paid anyways?

With the IPL (indian premier league) top players can make decent money these days. Pay is nothing like NBA though, if I recall correctly Clarke is making like 6mil a year and he's our captain and would have the most lucrative endorsement deals. Hughes had a central contract with cricket australia so he would have been making a bit but it would be far from anything crazy. don't know what kind of IPL deal he had but he's not known for his t20 game.

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Hindi baseball

Man there's some classless scum on this site. You are really trolling in a thread about an athlete who is in a critical condition after a sports injury? Really man? Scum of the ****ing earth you are.

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Just announced that he has passed away. Such a shock and sad incident. I wonder what will come of the inquiry into the ambulance times as it was mentioned immediate treatment is extremely important in a head injury like this.

[Draz]

Is this the first death?

[nightprowler10]

I am ****ing shocked. My heart just dropped. Jeez I didn't think this would actually happen.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3a_yDoCMAAj47P.jpg

[nightprowler10]

Just imagine how Abbott must feel now.

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I am ****ing shocked. My heart just dropped. Jeez I didn't think this would actually happen.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3a_yDoCMAAj47P.jpg
Me either. Alan jones said this afternoon he visited and it was worse than reported but until then I was thinking he would wake up but didn't know in what state. Apparently he said the ball ruptured an artery which bled into the brain.
So sad he was only 25 and on the cusp of possibly another chance in the test squad.

draz it's the first death I know of with a big player in a big league. I believe someone died awhile back in one of the Bangladesh leagues but I think he was hit fielding and continued to pay without medical treatment. Not sure about in earlier eras when helmets weren't worn.

Some people are saying their should be reforms on safety but other than improving helmets which they already do it was a freak accident.

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Just imagine how Abbott must feel now.
I don't know how you ever come back from that the same. It's not his fault in any way but how do you ever bowl the short ball again? He would have been on the moon about making the t20 and odi appearances this summer aswell.

[Wavves]

Incredibly sad. As dangerous of a game cricket is, like some of you mentioned, this stuff just never happens in cricket. Extremely shocking.

Phil Hughes was a big reason why I got into cricket in the first place. His two centuries in that match against South Africa was just amazing to watch for such a young player. The whole cricketing world will miss him.

Thoughts go out to his family, friends and of course the bowler, Sean Abbott. Couldn't even start to imagine how he must be feeling right now.

[aj1987]

****ing hell! I was hoping he would make a complete recovery.... This is just ****ing sad. They guy's only 25...

[KingBeasley08]

RIP

[ROCSteady]

Man there's some classless scum on this site. You are really trolling in a thread about an athlete who is in a critical condition after a sports injury? Really man? Scum of the ****ing earth you are.

I don't recall trolling the injured (I guess deceased now) athlete by making a remark about the sport.



RIP to the Aussie though. He was my age, that's a shame. At least he went out balling at something he loved? :confusedshrug:

[Dresta]

Really sad and unfortunate :( .




Some people are saying their should be reforms on safety but other than improving helmets which they already do it was a freak accident.
:facepalm

I don't know why people think they can make everything risk-free, or that unfortunate freak incidents such as this can ever be avoided. Cricket is and always will be a somewhat dangerous game because it is based around one guy using a very hard ball to harass and pepper the batsman. It can't be made any safer without ruining it (other than as you point out, improving helmet technology).


I don't know how you ever come back from that the same. It's not his fault in any way but how do you ever bowl the short ball again? He would have been on the moon about making the t20 and odi appearances this summer aswell.
Will be really hard. It affects the mentality. As a fast bowler bowling a short ball you really do want to hurt the batsman, to hit him on the body, to intimidate and scare him, and after this it is going to be really difficult to maintain the aggression needed from a good fast bowler.

[VeeCee15]

It's sad. But I don't really care.

Herd behavior. Unfortunate situation but there's people dying of similar types of accidents/worse every hour and they don't get any press or "RIP" comments from total, complete strangers.

What news like this does...is make people FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.
And we know it's true. Famous athlete dies...people who read it feel fortunate that they are alive and better about themselves, how lucky they are. This sort of news registers mostly as entertainment for the masses.

This crap is not newsworthy, its overemphasis in the news de-emphasizes the seriousness and privacy of the situation.

[Im Still Ballin]

It's sad. But I don't really care.

Herd behavior. Unfortunate situation but there's people dying of similar types of accidents/worse every hour and they don't get any press or "RIP" comments from total, complete strangers.

What news like this does...is make people FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.
And we know it's true. Famous athlete dies...people who read it feel fortunate that they are alive and better about themselves, how lucky they are. This sort of news registers mostly as entertainment for the masses.

This crap is not newsworthy, its overemphasis in the news de-emphasizes the seriousness and privacy of the situation.
Your absolutely right. No one wants to hear the truth though in these kinds of situations... It kind of bugs me how everyone is getting around it, these things happen we don't need to make the man out as a saint. I guess thats the way it is though. You won't see me grieving or making a status on facebook like the masses are. It happened, I acknowledged it, and thats that.

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It's sad. But I don't really care.

Herd behavior. Unfortunate situation but there's people dying of similar types of accidents/worse every hour and they don't get any press or "RIP" comments from total, complete strangers.

What news like this does...is make people FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.
And we know it's true. Famous athlete dies...people who read it feel fortunate that they are alive and better about themselves, how lucky they are. This sort of news registers mostly as entertainment for the masses.

This crap is not newsworthy, its overemphasis in the news de-emphasizes the seriousness and privacy of the situation.

If you don't care then don't post? I get your point but it is newsworthy for his fans and for people who have followed his career for the last 6 or 7 years. I know what you mean though with how celebrities die and a bunch of people start instagraming a random hashtag regardless of if they even knew who the person was but it's still a newsworthy event for people who follow cricket. There's a thing going on now where people are putting their cricket bats on their doorstep for him, I get the sign of respect but that kind of thing I wouldn't do and I think is kind of what you are talking about.

Anyway they are saying what happened was a freak injury that has only been recorded around 100 times before in the medical field and only once before as a result of a cricket ball, something about the artery being split.

[Draz]

It's sad. But I don't really care.

Herd behavior. Unfortunate situation but there's people dying of similar types of accidents/worse every hour and they don't get any press or "RIP" comments from total, complete strangers.

What news like this does...is make people FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.
And we know it's true. Famous athlete dies...people who read it feel fortunate that they are alive and better about themselves, how lucky they are. This sort of news registers mostly as entertainment for the masses.

This crap is not newsworthy, its overemphasis in the news de-emphasizes the seriousness and privacy of the situation.

Technically you're right. But, if one of your idols or favorite basketball players died due to a fatal injury in the sport itself I'm sure you'd be apart of the thousands of fans that exist in showing support.

[aj1987]

It's sad. But I don't really care.

Herd behavior. Unfortunate situation but there's people dying of similar types of accidents/worse every hour and they don't get any press or "RIP" comments from total, complete strangers.

What news like this does...is make people FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES.
And we know it's true. Famous athlete dies...people who read it feel fortunate that they are alive and better about themselves, how lucky they are. This sort of news registers mostly as entertainment for the masses.

This crap is not newsworthy, its overemphasis in the news de-emphasizes the seriousness and privacy of the situation.
You do know that if you don't care that you can just ignore it, right? The guy was a legit good guy (outside of cricket) and a good player as well. Also, it doesn't make me feel better AT ALL. I felt terrible the whole of yesterday. If you don't care about the issue, you really didn't have a reason to post.

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[nightprowler10]

It's not even about fandom. It's about losing a great guy doing something he loved. He died doing something almost everyone who has played cricket has done, play a bouncer. It's a really shitty situation, especially considering his age. I don't think it's silly or weak for people to identify with this and feel heart broken.

[ROCSteady]

Whoever 'CS' is that negged me over this thread can hold my nads.


RIP Aussie lad

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It's not even about fandom. It's about losing a great guy doing something he loved. He died doing something almost everyone who has played cricket has done, play a bouncer. It's a really shitty situation, especially considering his age. I don't think it's silly or weak for people to identify with this and feel heart broken.

I understand the sentiment that it's odd when a celebrity dies and people talk about how tragic it is while millions of people die in horrible ways every all the time, but at the same time to say it isn't newsworthy is silly and like you said it's a shock the way it happened.

[nightprowler10]

Pakistani domestic players pay tribute to Hughes.

http://imgur.com/a/en992

[Wavves]

Class act by Google

http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/uploads/businessinsider/2014/11/Google-putoutyourbats.jpg

[Cactus-Sack]

Phil used to play for my cricket club. I think we are doing some kind of tribute to him tomorrow. Black arm-bands and a moment of silence I'm sure.

Bat is currently on my door step, there are a few others in my street too.

I had a beer with him once a few years ago, seemed like a friendly chap. Very down to earth.

[Cactus-Sack]

Whoever 'CS' is that negged me over this thread can hold my nads.


RIP Aussie lad

It was me, now stop trying to make this thread, about the tragic death of an upstanding young man and hero to many, about you.

Just. Stop. Fvcking. Posting. Asshole

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Phil used to play for my cricket club. I think we are doing some kind of tribute to him tomorrow. Black arm-bands and a moment of silence I'm sure.

Bat is currently on my door step, there are a few others in my street too.

I had a beer with him once a few years ago, seemed like a friendly chap. Very down to earth.
I remember seeing a piece on him at some point where he talked about how the only other thing he wanted to do in life was help out his Dad with his farm. Seemed really down to earth.

[ROCSteady]

It was me, now stop trying to make this thread, about the tragic death of an upstanding young man and hero to many, about you.

Just. Stop. Fvcking. Posting. Asshole

Barely anybody cares about this. Must suck for you.



RIP Aussie Baseballer



Kinda crazy that he was killed playing pro sports. That hasn't even happened in Ice Hockey or Rugby from what I remember

[BlazerRed]

Barely anybody cares about this. Must suck for you.



RIP Aussie Baseballer



Kinda crazy that he was killed playing pro sports. That hasn't even happened in Ice Hockey or Rugby from what I remember
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[Top Gun]

Michael Clarke has gone up in my estimations after his comments to Sean Abbott.