Aidan11 wrote:sussexpob wrote:Good luck to the guy, let's hope he makes a full and speedy recovery from this.
Feel for Abbott too, it must be horrible to be the one who bowled the ball, but that's cricket.
Indeed. He'll be completely torn up about it.
Cricket Australia have apparently sent a few counsellors for the players involved, including Abbott who is quoted as being "shaken up" by the incident. Initial reports suggest that once Hughes took the blow, Abbott rushed up to his aid right away, which at least is a positive and shows no malicious intent was there. Its nice to see a few ex-Aussie players taking the opportunity to rally behind Abbott, he was just doing his job as best he could, and regardless of what happens as a result, that is the sport and everyone knows the risks, Phil accepted them and this is just an extremely unfortunate blameless incident.
I cant credit the Aussie media much though. I cant believe that even when its clear that Hughes is in deep trouble, the news report I watched for an update showed both the impact, the initial result, and then insisted on showing the aftermath quite graphically. Another apparently caused a storm by trying to gain hits by suggesting he was dead..... the media really have no shame, cant a man even fight for his life with dignity now!!