Cricket is one of the few sports in which players use many types of equipment including gloves, helmets, pads to protect themselves. This is also necessary because when a hard ball of 150 grams comes at a speed of 140-150 kilometers per hour, then it is only these that save the batsman from injury. On most occasions, the players remain safe without any major problem, but sometimes they get injured despite this and sometimes some players escape a big accident. Bangladesh batsman Tanzid Hasan had to face such a situation, where a big accident was saved from happening to him.

All this happened in a match of T20 World Cup 2024 where Bangladesh faced Netherlands. In the clash between the two teams in St. Vincent, Bangladesh team came out to bat first. Bangladesh lost the first wicket early but its opener Tanjid Hasan was seen batting explosively. During this, something happened to him, which could have ended his career but luck favored him.

The helmet saved Tanjid

In the third over of Bangladesh's innings, Netherlands' medium pacer Vivian Kingma was bowling. The fifth ball of his over was a little short, on which Tanzid wanted to play a pull shot but he failed in it. The ball took the upper edge of the bat and got stuck directly in the visor of Tanzid's helmet. This shocked everyone. There was fear on Tanzid's face because if the ball had gone straight in instead of getting stuck in the visor, it could have hit his left eye and a big accident could have happened.

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could have ended his career

Tanjid was lucky that the ball did not have much speed and it just got stuck in the visor. If it had hit his eye, it could have been permanently damaged and his career could have ended. South Africa's legendary wicketkeeper Mark Boucher's career ended when the bails hit his eyes. England batsman Harry Brook's helmet visor also got stuck in the ball and he too escaped injury. However, not everyone is so lucky. About 10 years ago, Indian pacer Varun Aaron's fast ball had entered England's Stuart Broad's visor. Then his nose was injured and there was a lot of bleeding.