Have you ever played cricket in your life? It will be a game only. During childhood, most of the children must have had the dream of becoming a cricketer at some point of time. Some people are also able to live this dream. Start learning cricket professionally. Now how many people can accomplish this depends on the hard work and luck of the person. But what if you go to play and an accident happens in the middle of the game and something untoward happens. Just thinking about it seems strange and shocking. But this has happened many times in cricket when some accidents have forced people and players to think. 27th November is one such day when the thinking of cricketers and cricketers changed forever.

When Phil Hughes died on the field

Whatever happened on the cricket field exactly 10 years ago has settled in the mind of every player. Australian cricketer Phil Hughes died after being hit on the head by a ball. It's been 10 years since this happened. Phil Hughes was playing Sheffield Shield, a very prestigious domestic tournament of Australia. The bowler was Sean Abbott. While batting, Phil Hughes is hit on the head by a bouncer. Now, although Australian players are known to play bouncers better than the rest of the world, it would be considered unfortunate for Hughes that the ball went and hit him on the head. He remained completely stunned for a few seconds. But before he and every player present in the field and the umpire could understand anything, they became unconscious and fell on the ground. The eyes closed so that they never opened again. He is immediately taken to the hospital but Phil Hughes could not be saved. This accident shocked the entire cricket world.

After such a big accident, ICC also wakes up and some new rules and regulations are made regarding bouncers. Today's situation is such that if a player is hit by the ball even after touching his head, he is immediately tested for concussion. No matter what stage the match is in, no matter how much time it takes. The match does not proceed until it is decided that the player is fine and capable of playing further. Some technical changes were also made in the helmets of the players.

Cricketers' thinking changed

This accident changed the thinking of cricketers. Before this, every batsman must have thought about his batting, his form, his technique before going to the field, but he would never have thought that after going inside the field, he could get injured so badly that he could lose his life. Everyone thought that after the introduction of helmets in cricket, you are completely safe as a batsman, but this accident changed this thinking too. It is not that such accidents have never happened on the cricket field before. Of course it has happened, but perhaps at that time the world had not advanced so far in science and technology. In the past years, there have been many players who died after being hit by the ball on the field, but at that time perhaps such modern and better quality helmets were not available. In today's high-tech world, Phil Hughes' departure from this world was no less than a reality check for the players.

India-Australia match postponed

This accident happened just before India's tour of Australia in 2014, as a result of which the first match of the tour was postponed. This match was to be played from 4th December. The second Test to be held at Brisbane Gabba became the first match which was played on 9 December. This decision was taken by Cricket Australia at the last moment in the schedule of the series so that the entire country could pay its last tribute to its colleague, its friend and its cricketer Phil Hughes. BCCI also fully supported this decision of Cricket Australia. Team India loses this series 2-0. But this was the same series when a new young, aggressive Team India started. This tour proved to be MS Dhoni's last tour in Test cricket. This was the tour when Virat Kohli was given the Test captaincy of Team India and a new era began in Indian cricket.

Cricket progressed slowly. It has been 10 years since this accident. But this one accident proved that nothing is above man and his emotions, not even cricket. It is not that such big accidents had not happened before which did not change the world of cricket. For example, when the Sri Lankan team went on a tour to Pakistan and there was continuous firing on their team bus at the intersection for 20-25 minutes, in which many players of the team got injured, this was also a big accident. . This accident forced the cricketers and the cricket board to think that the safety of the players is also a big responsibility and you have to think about which country as a board you are sending your players to play.