England had an unfortunate injury added to the insult of a hefty first innings deficit, as Stuart Broad was hit on the chin by a short ball.
With Jhye Richardson steaming in as England still trailled by more than 250 runs, a short ball kicked up off his glove and into the grill of his helmet.
Broad needed to a trip to hospital after being struck by a Varun Aaron bouncer during the fourth Test against India back in 2014, Mark Waugh saying he hasn’t been the same batter since.
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“Vicious, clear intent – Broady won’t be surprised by that,” Waugh said on Fox Sports commentary.
“He hasn’t quite been the same after that nasty blow some years ago.”
There was a stoppage for a couple of minutes as Broad was looked over and put through concussion protocols.
“When you’ve had your cage rattled like that, I’m not sure you want to answer the correct questions,” Brett Lee offered in the booth.
Lee said that despite the unfortunate situation, you want to set the tone and immediately follow up an incident like this with another short ball. Richardson duly obliged.
“You don’t want people to get hurt — you might try to put on a big, tough fast bowler profile, I guess, but at the end of the day it’s player safety that’s most important,” Lee said.
Broad bravely batted on, smacking a six off Richardson’s next over before being caught in the deep off Mitchell Starc to end the innings.
Somewhat surprisingly, Australia elected to bat again under the lights, despite being entitled to enforce to follow on, should they have desired to do so.
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