Elite Sportsmen Who Left The Field In A Blink Of An Eye

BANGALORE: Death is inevitable, but it is hard to bear when it occurs all of a sudden to someone close or the person you admire the most. There are certain unwelcomed incidences in the sports history when the most loved sports person left the world on the playing field itself.

It’s shocking to note such incidences in life, to quote the ‘death detail” is highly painful but to give them a tribute is our soul courtesy. With silence in mind and sympathy’s in heart, here is the list of 10 sportsmen who died on the field as compiled by MENSXP.

1. Phillip Hughes, Cricket

Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One-Day International cricketer. On 25 November 2014, Hughes was hit in the neck by a bouncer, during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, causing a vertebral artery dissection that led to a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Hughes was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, where he underwent surgery, was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition. He died on 27 November, having never regained consciousness, three days before his 26th birthday.

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