For those, including myself, who thought cricket was possibly more tedious and less dangerous than watching paint dry come two poignant events that dispel the myth. Only days after Australian batsman Philip Hughes died after being struck in the neck by a bounce, Israeli umpire Hillel Oscar died after being struck in the neck by a freak ricochet from a batsman's shot.
What do these two incidents have in common? That's right, necks. If we ban necks in cricket, it can return to being the terminally dull waste of time that I so loathed at school.
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