Destiny hits cricket fatally once again. After Raman Lamba, it is Phillip Hughes now.
Raman was 38 when he was hit by a Bangladesh batsman, and Phillip Hughes was just 25, having his birthday on coming Saturday, when he would turn 26.
Misfortune knocked ruthlessly at the door of Australian cricket when Phillip Hughes suffered fatal head injury while negotiating a bouncer ball from Sean Abbott, in a sheffield shield cricket match, and the ill fate as it would be, it turned out to be the, ” last ball ” he played in his life.
What would have been the level of helplessness for his mother and sister who too had come to see their darling in action, and soon realised that this was the last they could see him play.
A sad and dark day for world cricket, in fact for the whole of mankind.
We deeply and with dampened eyes mourn the tragic and unfortunate demise of this promising cricketer and a very humble gentleman.
We should not even ignore the agony and shock that Sean Abbott, will be in, at this point of time.
Cricket lovers need to be beside him counselling and sympathising.
May Almighty God give peace to the departed soul and courage to the family to bear this irreparable loss.
Can cricket be so dangerous a game, so close to fatality, is something the cricketing bodies world over need to give a serious thought to.