Sport
Cricket has the laws, tactics and bats to deal with bouncers – Sydney Morning Herald
I write from the experience of the sound, feel and pain of leather dismantling bone and flesh – I don’t want to see the game without short-pitched bowling.
Anecdotally it appears as though there are more concussions in sport these days. The football codes have become infested, cricket stained, rugby union is at risk of devolving toward touch football.
Certainly there is a more rigorous recording of head injuries and a more vigorous enforcement of cranial trauma protocols than ever before. The response to head knocks by some is to take the head out of the action zone by not allowing the bowlers to get the ball into the head zone. Stop bowlers (assume…
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