Maybe cricket batsmen need to start wearing cups.
Alex Hales and the Trent Rockets faced the Oval Invincibles on Sunday in a new English cricket competition called The Hundred. How The Hundred differs from other forms of cricket is not worth getting into here because you don’t need to know anything about the rules to understand what happened to Hales.
Hales was batting against Reece Topley when he was hit in the crotch not once but twice. On consecutive balls.
The first nut shot came after Hales swung and missed at a delivery that bounced up and drilled him, causing him to let out an anguished “Oh no!