Published: May 01, 2016, 09:22 PM (IST)
Edited: May 01, 2016, 09:22 PM (IST)
Australian batsman Adam Voges, was involved in a scary incident after he was hit on his head with the ball, in a match against Hampshire of the ongoing County Championship 2016. The incident happened when he was batting for Middlesex, and an incoming throw from a fielder struck his head while he was running between the wickets. He was attended by the medical staff immediately, and soon left the field. He was taken to a hospital as well, and it emerged that he has suffered a possible concussion. Just a few moments later, it was also confirmed that as a result of the concussion, he has been ruled out for the remainder of the match, reported BBC Radio. Cricket Australia announces contracted players list for 2016-17
Earlier, former Australia cricketer Chris Rogers recommends that Adam Voges should keep playing Test Cricket unlike his teammates Shane Watson, Michael Clarke and Mitchell Johnson. He still has a lot of cricket left in him and his Bradman threatening statistics reflect exactly the same. Voges maintains an astounding average of 95.50 in 15 tests having scored 1337 runs. Rogers said that Voges might also go past 40 and still play in the longer format of the game like batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, recently retired Shivnarine Chanderpaul and former Pakistan Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq did. Basically, the concern is how Voges’ fitness reacts to the aging and not his willingness to play the game. Chris Rogers backs Adam Voges to continue playing Test cricket
Rogers shares his own experience how aging takes a toll over your quality of game and reflexes although he thinks Voges is a good athlete “But the one thing I think that happens is not so much that you don’t pick up the ball so well, it’s that your body doesn’t react quite as quickly. And because it’s just fractions of a second and trying to get out of the way of a ball coming at you can become just a little bit harder each year. That was when – because you’re facing the fastest bowlers in the world at Test level – I was starting to think ‘am I just not moving as quickly as I used to, is that why I’m getting hit a little bit’.So that was probably in the back of my mind.”
