WATCH: Travis Dean retires hurt after getting hit in the abdomen by Trent Copeland

Dixit Bhargav | 14/02/2020
WATCH: Travis Dean retires hurt after getting hit in the abdomen by Trent Copeland

Travis Dean retires hurt: The Victorian batsman coped a nasty blow which forced him to leave the field at the SCG.

During the first day of the 19th match of the ongoing Sheffield Shield season between New South Wales and Victoria in Sydney, Victoria opening batsman Travis Dean had to retire hurt after coping a nasty blow in his abdominal region.

It all happened on the second delivery of the ninth over when New South Wales seamer Trent Copeland beat Dean with the ball nipping back into the right-hand batsman.

Hit hard where it hurts the most, Dean immediately sat down in pain. While batsmen tend to resume batting after a brief pause due to such a blow, it wasn’t the case this time as Victoria’s medical decided to take Dean off the field.

Victoria, who had lost opening batsman Marcus Harris (7) in the previous over, sort of lost their second opener in the first session as captain Peter Handscomb walked in to bat at No. 4 after winning the toss and opting to bat first.

While a 90-run partnership between Nic Maddinson and Handscomb (41) provided a rescue act for the visitors, impressive performance from their middle-order saw them finishing the day on 318/5 in 96 overs.

Maddinson’s 24th First-class half-century, 95 (123), with the help of eight fours and two sixes saw him top-scoring for Victoria on Day 1.

It is worth mentioning that Dean (35) came back to bat in the 67th over and was part of a 76-run unbeaten stand alongside Seb Gotch (59). Victoria would be hoping for these batsmen to put a formidable total on the board tomorrow morning.

Travis Dean retires hurt

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Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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