Marcus Stoinis got hit on face by Riley Meredith’s vicious delivery in BBL match

Tanish Chachra | 30/12/2019
Marcus Stoinis got hit on face by Riley Meredith's vicious delivery in BBL match

Marcus Stoinis got a hard hit on the face by Riley Meredith’s fast delivery in the BBL match, the player seemed fine and immediately got up.

Hobart Hurricanes faced Melbourne starts in a game full of pauses but amidst all of this Marcus Stoinis almost became a victim to a vicious bouncer but fortunately was safe as his protecting gears zeroes the harm.

In the 4th over of the game, Riley Meredith delivered his fourth ball of the over to Stoinis, a fast delivery caught a huge bounce and directly hit the Australian batsman’s helmet with blistering speed.

Stoinis was brought to the floor with the impact. In response, the explosive batsman took a pause but soon got up and told the officials he was fine.

On the other hand, all the players near to him including Meredith came to his rescue and enquired about his condition. Fortunately, Stoinis reported to be fine and continued to be on the pitch.

Meanwhile, match officials followed their protocol and made sure that the batsman on the pitch did not have any possibility of concussion due to the impact, as the ball literally smacked onto Stoinis’ head.

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With this, the match continued and Meredith resumed with his over. It was clear that the Australian bowler did not intend to hurt his compatriot and was one off bouncer which came out to be dangerous.

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Although Stoinis continued with his innings, shortly he lost his wicket in the first ball of next over of Meredith. It was a short ball, which Stoinis tried to hit hard but it didn’t receive enough impact and it was caught by David Miller

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BBL 2019 Hobart Hurricanes Marcus Stoinis Melbourne Stars Riley Meredith

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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