Just noticed that both the Australian team and the Indian team, both their support squads, and the umpires are all wearing black armbands.

Nice touch.

Play is resuming now.

#BatsOutForBen

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As you were Ben. Rest easy. #batsoutforben

Rest Easy Son. #batsoutforben

Rest Easy Son. #batsoutforben

I wonder if it might be possible, mental health issues being primary, to have Sean Abbott and/or David Warner talk to the club, especially the wanger kid.

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‘Bats out for Benny’: Teenager killed by cricket ball honoured with #batsoutforben campaign The 17-year-old was not wearing neck guard when fatally hit in practice nets while officials say priority is Ben Austin’s family and boy who threw ball

The related story in the Guardian.

Yes, he was wearing a helmet. No, he was apparently not wearing the 'stem' or neck guard attachments introduced after a possibly simmilar injury felled Phil Hughes a decade ago.

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My cricket bat in my front window.

We've got a world-class international cricketer with a lacerated spleen from rolling on the ball, now a 17yo has died after being hit in the neck by a wanger-launched ball.

Cricket isn't supposed to be dangerous, never mind life-threatening.

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Australia’s cricket community have begun to put their #batsoutforben in a gesture to remember the teenage cricketer who was tragically killed by a ball hitting his neck in a practice session.

📷: James Ross/AAP

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