Arts & Humanities GD Cricket thread.

[craigos]

Doesn't sound good, have to feel for all involved.

 

[little graham]

Adelaide radio reporting in surgery, induced coma.

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Sheeeiiit! Good luck to the lad he's gonna need it

 

[chargers 09]

Holy hell. All the best Phil Hughes....

 

[chargers 09]

Can anyone in a medical background speculate as to what happened?
For the old timers on this board E.g. Gough you ever seen someone get helicoptered to hospital from a cricket match before?

 

[dont bowl there]

Can anyone in a medical background speculate as to what happened?
For the old timers on this board E.g. Gough you ever seen someone get helicoptered to hospital from a cricket match before?

He wasn't taken away in a helicopter, the helicopter brought specialists to the ground. They took Hughes to the nearest hospital in an ambulance.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Out of surgery and still critical. Thoughts and prayers with him. Shocking stuff.

 

[Gough]

Can anyone in a medical background speculate as to what happened?
For the old timers on this board E.g. Gough you ever seen someone get helicoptered to hospital from a cricket match before?

Worst thing I've ever seen on the field. I was in tears.

 

[little graham]

The first helmets...

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Can anyone in a medical background speculate as to what happened?
For the old timers on this board E.g. Gough you ever seen someone get helicoptered to hospital from a cricket match before?

No medical background but I'd imagine it's like many blows to the head (punch etc)

The skull receives the blow which impacts the brain, and the brain receives a second blow, it hits the opposite side of the inner skull as it moves as a result of the first.

Like other organs it swells, but unlike other organs the brain has nowhere to swell to - it's surrounded entirely by bone (the skull). Pressure just builds up and up and the required blood can't flow through the organ to affect the initial stages of recovery. It's just stuck there. No blood equals no oxygen to the organ (brain).

Hence emergency surgery - they would have relieved the pressure to promote bloodflow which is hopefully now occurring.

I don't profess to any medical knowledge nor do I know if this is accurate in Hughes' case - just the way these things have been explained to me in the past.

 

[Gough]

Richie Robinson at slip. Is that Amiss under the lid?

 

[chargers 09]

WHo bowled the bouncer? Must have had some heat to it...

 

[little graham]

Just bee trawlin threw youtube vids of Garner and Ambrose, aiming at peoples heads with piss weak protection.

 

[The Passenger]

WHo bowled the bouncer? Must have had some heat to it...

Shaun Abbott.

Not really quick, just got him in a bad spot. Didn't hit his helmet, got him in the neck region, possibly on an artery and after about 5 seconds he just collapsed. Probably lucky he had his helmet on because he went head first into the pitch. Without his helmet or if he had've taken it off in the interim it would have caused more damage to his jaw and nose region, not too mention a second hard hit to the head.

 

[The Passenger]

I remember that Jeff Vaughan incident very well. Or moreso the reporting of it. He never really recovered from that and hardly played FC again.

He was part of the SA coaching panel last season, not sure if he stayed on this season - On several different levels he would have an awful feeling about todays events.

 

[Caesar]

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phil-hughes-dead/5919204

 

[EdgeOfReason]

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phil-hughes-dead/5919204

[emoji22]

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-27/phil-hughes-dead/5919204

Absolutely gutted

 

[chargers 09]

Terrible news.
Easy to relate to when compared to other "celebrity" deaths. Plenty of people have played cricket and anyone whose played long enough has faced a bouncer. Copped a nasty hit to the lid when I was 16-17 to an older blokes in the nets, scared me senseless.

Regardless of what I just said everyone has come out and said what a genuine bloke he was, shattering stuff.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Made a comeback to park cricket yesterday for the first time in a year. Can't ****ing move. Everything hurts. Leaning over a cricket bat for an hour or so must involve more muscles than any other activity known to man

 

[Gough]

Made a comeback to park cricket yesterday for the first time in a year. Can't ******* move. Everything hurts. Leaning over a cricket bat for an hour or so must involve more muscles than any other activity known to man

I always found bowling worse, although that might have something to with the fact I was part of a long proud line of leggies who were absolute ferrets. After the the first couple of pre-season nets I could barely move my arm the next morning.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

I always found bowling worse, although that might have something to with the fact I was part of a long proud line of leggies who were absolute ferrets. After the the first couple of pre-season nets I could barely move my arm the next morning.

I'd prefer not to think about my 4 overs of medium pace that disappeared for 32 . I feel like one of those hunched over octogenarians you see very slowly pulling their shopping baskets along the footpaths of Seoul. I assume you've played a bit of pub league in your time, Gough?

 

[Gough]

Played a few seasons of A Grade Turf in Adelaide, it was the early Warne years and leggies were still a bit of a novelty, but the travel bug hit harder, so I haven't played seriously since the 90s. I still turn out for the odd social match, but I also badly dislocated my right shoulder a few years ago and the ligaments healed loosely around the joint which makes bowling over the wrist spin almost impossible. General all I can do is roll over a few toppies and hope that we can find the ball in whichever front garden near the oval it ends up in.

 

[little graham]

Made a comeback to park cricket yesterday for the first time in a year. Can't ******* move. Everything hurts. Leaning over a cricket bat for an hour or so must involve more muscles than any other activity known to man

Afterwards stretch next time. Don't eat acidic foods/beverages. Eat protein and healthy fats. See how you go?

 

[little graham]

Indian captains first ball faced in Australia has him dancing to some chin music. Not a very good dancer as it hits him smack in the middle of the forehead.