David Warner presents signed shirt to bowler he hospitalised
Australian opener David Warner has been reunited with the net bowler he hospitalised with a crashing drive.
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David Warner has presented the net bowler he put in hospital for three days with a signed Australian shirt.
Warner smashed a drive back into local bowler Jay Plaha’s head at training last Saturday, as the Aussies prepared for their match against India at The Oval.
“It was unfortunate, but we’re extremely grateful for the guys coming in and bowling to us,” Warner said.
“Obviously workloads stop us from facing our own bowlers sometimes but to come in and roll the arm over and unfortunately get hit was sad.
“It was a real shock to us but now he’s recovering he said he’s back on his feet and will be bowling in six weeks.”
The scary incident halted Australia training for 20 minutes as Plaha was slowly loaded into an ambulance and taken to hospital.
It left Warner, and some of his teammates, visible rattled as they watched on.
Plaha’s CT scan of his brain came back clear but he didn’t walk for two days. He suggested net bowlers wear helmets in the future.
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