Two Melbourne Stars cricketers have miraculously escaped unharmed after a nasty outfield clash-of-heads in Albury.
Tom Triffitt and teammate Adam Zampa collided at high speed in a Big Bash practice match between the Stars and Sydney Thunder.
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Stars players hurt in ugly head clash
Melbourne Stars players Adam Zampa and Tom Triffitt escaped serious injury after a spectacular collision during a Big Bash practice match between the Stars and Sydney Thunder in Albury.
Thunder opener Jay Lenton had skied a ball off Glenn Maxwell. Triffitt, who sometimes plays as a wicketkeeper, was at slip. He set off, but Zampa, in the deep, did too. Zampa called but Triffitt kept running. The collision was fierce, and club doctors rushed onto the field.
They escaped without serious injury, and walked off the ground, but sat out the rest of the game. Medical staff cleared them of concussion.
Zampa miraculously managed to hold on to the catch.
In 2015, in England's Twenty20 competition, Australian all-rounder Moises Henriques was not so lucky in his clash with Surrey teammate Rory Burns.
Henriques had to have his jaw banded shut for a five-week period after he and Burns crashed into each other in the outfield. Both players were knocked unconscious and ambulances were rushed onto the field to treat both players.
Moises Henriques has broken his jaw in a collision with teammate Rory Burns in a county #cricket match in England. https://t.co/AFUPqB67iO
— InterestBuddy (@InterestNetwork) June 11, 2016
Burns got off relatively lightly, and Henriques made a full recovery. Surrey director of cricket, Alec Stewart, said at the time that the incident reminded him of the infamous incident involving Steve Waugh and Jason Gillespie in Sri Lanka in 1999, when the then Test captain was left with a broken nose and his fast bowling teammate with a broken shin.
They ran into each other after trying to retrieve a top edge from Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene.