Tragedy! Hit in neck by ball - Young cricketer dies during practice

A promising young Australian cricketer has died aft being struck by a shot during signifier successful Melbourne, leaving his section sporting assemblage heartbroken.Ben Austin, 17, was reportedly grooming astatine the Wally Tew Reserve successful Ferntree Gully connected Tuesday day erstwhile the freak mishap occurred.

According to reports, the teen was facing deliveries from an automatic bowling instrumentality successful the nets portion wearing a helmet erstwhile helium was deed successful the caput and cervix area.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Paramedics rushed to the scene, and Austin was taken to Monash Medical Centre successful a captious condition. Despite the champion efforts of doctors, helium died connected Wednesday.The Ferntree Gully Cricket Club, wherever Ben played, confirmed his decease successful a connection connected Thursday morning, saying the full assemblage was “absolutely devastated.”

“We are perfectly devastated by the passing of Ben, and the impacts of his decease volition beryllium felt by each successful our cricket community,” the nine wrote connected societal media. “Our thoughts and prayers are with his household – Jace, Tracey, Cooper, and Zach – his extended family, friends, and each who knew Ben and the joyousness that helium brought.”Ben was described by his nine arsenic a “star cricketer, large leader, and an awesome young man.” He besides represented Mulgrave and Eildon Park cricket clubs and played inferior shot for Waverley Park Hawks.

Ferntree Gully and District Cricket Association president Arnie Walters called Austin “both talented and popular,” adding, “We volition supply immoderate and each enactment we tin to our clubs and cricket family.”Victorian Education Minister Ben Carroll said grief enactment was being offered to students astatine Rowville Secondary College, wherever Ben studied. “We volition wrapper our arms astir them and springiness them each enactment they need,” helium said.

“This is simply a calamity that volition past galore years for that section community.”Austin’s decease has drawn comparisons to the 2014 calamity that claimed the beingness of Australian Test batter Phillip Hughes, who was struck successful the cervix during a Sheffield Shield game. Hughes’s decease prompted sweeping information reforms successful cricket.While specified fatalities stay rare, Ben Austin’s passing has erstwhile again shaken the cricketing satellite — reminding everyone of the risks faced adjacent successful regular grooming sessions.