Cricket Discussion - Part 1

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F@%king hell. Absolutely stunned. Unbelievable.

Condolences to the Hughes family.

Can't even begin to imagine how Sean Abbott feels.

RIP Phil Hughes.
 

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What a terrible day.

It never sounded like good news... to have CPR performed at the ground, all his team mates rushing to hospital, the look of shock on his team mates faces, the doctors grim updates... but yet I still held hope he would pull through.

Absolutely in shock at this.
 
Shocking news about Phil Hughes. Very moving for a reason I can't fathom. Cuts through emotionally where other stuff that would seem darker doesn't get through. RIP Phil. Condolences to all, and yes very much to Sean Abbott
 
RIP Hughesy.

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Tonight about 60 guys will be given the chance to live their dream. We've been robbed of a guy who was a such a bright spark and had it all in front of him is just devastating. More importantly a son, brother, friend is lost. ****ing nightmare :(
 

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this is the saddest thing i have ever seen in sport, as a motorsport fan ive seen plenty of shocking deaths in the sport, senna, greg moore and simoncelli were the worst but there have been many more, but that is in motorsport, it has that element of danger, everyone knows the risks. this is different, this is cricket, the game most have played growing up, the game some of us have or did play for years. opening batsman, facing fast bowlers getting hit all over the body and once in the head, just happened, never would you ever consider anything like this happening.

first saw hughes play against sa back in 2008, he and forrest put in a 250 odd run partnership, hughes made 198. thought to myself we have found ourselves a gun batsman here. as the years went on and he went from a top shield batsman to a young aussie batsman scoring back to back hundreds against the best bowling attack in the world he fast became my favourite cricketer. could not believe it when it was announced he was coming to south australia to play. what a great batsman he was to watch live, attacking, free flowing, dominated the bowling when he was on. had a unique technique but it was effective. such a sad day.

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A tweet today...says it all ...

63 not out. Forever. Vale Phillip Hughes.

— Daniel Cherny (@DanielCherny)November 27, 2014
 
campaigners ...

Australian press really are deadbeats.. Paparazzi hanging around outside the hospital taking photos of Abbot as he leaves.

Unless the guy wants to meet the press, just leave him alone.
 
Shocking. Devastating. Did not expect this but I had no idea how serious the immediate injury was.

RIP Phil.
 
nivek48 said:
campaigners ...

Australian press really are deadbeats.. Paparazzi hanging around outside the hospital taking photos of Abbot as he leaves.

Unless the guy wants to meet the press, just leave him alone.
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Agree but unfortunately that is the world we live in.

One thing that I hated today was the CA presser, when it came to questions from the journos there was one Indian representative who asked whether there would be an impact on the Indian Tour.

FFS, wrong time to ask those sorts of questions.
 
Phil Hughes - was incredibly unlucky. A few millimetres either side of where he was hit and he would have survived. A cut and paste of a few things I have seen/read

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4137693.htm
LEIGH SALES: And they said at the hospital this afternoon that they'd never even seen an injury like that at St Vincent's Hospital and I think in the whole world there's only one recorded injury like that from a cricket ball. It's just so incredibly rare.
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http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2014/s4137693.htm


http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phillip-hughes-doctors-say-injury-extremely-rare/5923282
Australian team doctor Peter Brukner said there were only 100 cases of his condition ever reported.

"I think in this instance, this was a freakish accident because it was an injury to the neck that caused haemorrhage in the brain," Dr Brukner said.

"The condition is incredibly rare. It's called vertebral artery dissection leading to subarachnoid haemorrhage, only 100 cases ever reported.

"[There has been] only one case reported as a result of a cricket ball. "So I think it's important to realise, that, yes, we certainly need to review all our procedures and equipment, but this is an incredibly rare type of injury." Dr Brukner said it was important to explain the medical management of Hughes's condition after he was hit in the neck by the ball. "He momentarily stood up and then immediately collapsed on the ground," Dr Brukner said.

"Phillip took the blow at the side of the neck and as a result of that blow, his vertebral artery, one of the main arteries leading to the brain, was compressed by the ball. That caused the artery to split and for bleeding to go up into the brain, and he had a massive bleed into his brain. This is frequently fatal at the time.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phillip-hughes-doctors-say-injury-extremely-rare/5923282

Dr Tony Grabs from St Vincent explains
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phillip-hughes-doctors-say-injury-extremely-rare/5923282
Hughes was transported to St Vincent's Hospital. The head of trauma surgery there, Dr Tony Grabs, described his injury as "catastrophic".

"We haven't seen this at this hospital, this type of injury, so it is very rare and very freakish," Dr Grabs said.

Dr Grabs said after carrying out an urgent CAT scan of Hughes's head doctors decided "an intervention into the brain" was required to relieve pressure. "What sometimes happens in the brain is if you put blood around the brain, a small amount, you will start to become a bit drowsy," he said. "If you put a lot of blood around the brain you will become unconscious." Dr Grabs said Hughes was then taken to surgery where doctors removed some of his skull "to help to allow the brain to expand so it wasn't compressed". "The surgery took about 1 hour and 20 minutes or so and he was transferred back to the intensive care unit," he said. "After this we need to induce a coma to rest the patient and rest the brain and look after all the other bodily functions for him.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phillip-hughes-doctors-say-injury-extremely-rare/5923282

You can watch the video of 2 doctors explain things in their presser at

http://media.smh.com.au/sport/sports-hq/hughes-injury-very-rare-very-freakish-6035261.html
 
This is just heartbreaking. I didn't know the guy but to see such a vibrant young man cut down so cruelly is the definition of tragic.
 
Kudos to the cricketers from New Zealand and Pakistan who abandoned their days play in the Third Test in memory of Phil Hughes.
 
I saw an article on the main board that said three men now in coaching or medical positions at the Redbacks and were at the pub on Hookesey's fateful night!

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/spo...et-tragedy-for-three-men-20141127-11vd5j.html

Darren Berry, John Porter and Rob Cassell were all at the Beaconsfield Hotel the night Hookes was felled and never recovered: Berry as the captain of the Victorian team Hookes was coaching, Porter as the physiotherapist of the South Australian team that had played the Bushrangers earlier in the day, Cassell as the emerging 19-year-old Victorian paceman invited out for a drink with his mentor.

All were at the SCG on Tuesday: Berry as the SA coach, Porter still their physiotherapist and the now-retired Cassell the Redbacks' bowling coach.
 
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