The Cricket Thread 2014

[adrenachrome]

In Sky's live coverage of yesterdays game in Sri Lanka, they showed a later version of the helmet he was using and opined that it would probably have saved the young man.   

[OzVilla]

His surgeon has just been on saying that with injuries like this death is usually almost instantaneous.

It's an incredibly rare injury with only 100 odd cases of this specific injury ever recorded as reported, only one previously caused by a cricket ball.

It's wall to wall coverage here, everyone is shocked, reports he was to receive a call up for next weeks Test Match once he'd left the field - life is so fragile.

[LTA]

The fact that Sean Abbott Murderer is trending on twitter shows just how vile some people on the planet are. 

This was a total freak of an accident. Thoughts are with Phil Hughes family and also with Sean Abbott. I'm sure his family and the Cricket world will rally round him

[Dave Cooper please]

This is utterly tragic, and as someone else has said, I really hope Paul Abbot gets the support he needs.

The problem with helmets, and I am sure they have saved live and prevented many serious injuries, is that the art of avoiding the bouncer has been lost to a generation of batsmen. The bouncer is a legitimate part of cricket, always has been, but before helmets were widespread batsmen would keep their eye on the ball and duck or sway away at the last millisecond, using a helmet gives a sense of security meaning that batsmen now will come forward to a high ball or will hook or cut it rather than avoid it.

[PaulWinch again]

The fact that Sean Abbott Murderer is trending on twitter shows just how vile some people on the planet are. 

This was a total freak of an accident. Thoughts are with Phil Hughes family and also with Sean Abbott. I'm sure his family and the Cricket world will rally round him

Disgusting, but that sums up a lot of people on Twitter to be honest.

[dave shelley]

Sincere condolences to his family and friends.  RIP Phil.

[simon ward 50]

Thoughts with Phil Hughes family RIP.

[The Left Side]

Tragic, RIP Phil

[PaulWinch again]

Pretty poor stuff. No Moeen magic and Cook and Bell get their usual
fails.

[Villan For Life]

I really can't drum up any enthusiasm for one day Cricket.

[PaulWinch again]

The thing is we persist with players who just have never looked like being top ODI players. Also I hate this thing in English sport where they try to claim positive development from defeats. You don't develop as a team in defeats.

[PaulWinch again]

I'd drop Cook and Bell for Hales and Taylor.

[PaulWinch again]

Hales and Taylor have to start after that shambles. How many chances are Cook and Bell allowed? I like them both as Test players, but they've never been top ODI players and it's time to move on.

[PaulWinch again]

"I've just got to do what I keep doing, believing in myself, doing my basics right."

No Alastair you've got to change something or you will keep failing. Chandimal, the Sri Lankan captain, dropped himself in the Twenty20 World cup because he realised he was holding the team back. That's true captaincy and courage and that's what Cook should do.

[peter w]

I'd drop Cook and Bell for Hales and Taylor.

And I really thought we'd moved away from a one dimensional and outdated one-day team but that we still have Cook and Bell at 1 and 3 is betond me. He may well respond witha ton next game  ut that is symptoatic of the problem. Every now and then he finds a score but isn't good enough for modern one-day cricket. He hasn't got the think on your feet mentality and going through gears when needed. That he might get the odd hundred isn't the point.

He's got the Lambert feel to him at the moment does Cook. Thinking its going okay and just not being able to see what you, I and just about everyone else can see.