CHESTER-LE-STREET, ENGLAND - APRIL 24: Middlesex batsman Adam Voges hits out as Michael Richardson looks on during day one of the Specsavers County Championship Division One match between Durham and Middlesex at Emirates Durham ICG on April 24, 2016 in Chester-le-Street, England. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)
Australian batsman Adam Voges is recovering in hospital after being hit in the head by a cricket ball while fielding for Middlesex in the English County Championship.
Voges was fielding at slip when an errant throw from substitute fieldsman Ollie Rayner flew past wicketkeeper John Simpson and hit Voges in the back of the head.
The blow felled Voges, who was conscious when the team physio arrived to treat him, before he was taken to hospital as a precaution.
“The feeling from physio Peter Waxman is that he’s got concussion but that’ll be shown up (conclusively) later (by doctors),” Middlesex director of cricket Angus Fraser said.
“(It was) a freak injury, as such, but I suppose you wonder with a cricket ball thrown around a field as much it is, you wonder why it doesn’t happen a bit more often.
“They’re hard things, cricket balls, and it’s sad news for Adam and obviously disappointing for us.”
“He wasn’t feeling very well in the dressing room (after the knock) but he’s been taken to hospital to get it checked over.
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