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mid-day editorial: Make helmets a must for umpires

<p>It&rsquo;s been a year since Australian batsman Phillip Hughes succumbed to his head injury and the red cricket ball has not stopped seriously hurting the practitioners of the game</p>

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It’s been a year since Australian batsman Phillip Hughes succumbed to his head injury and the red cricket ball has not stopped seriously hurting the practitioners of the game.

Five months after Hughes’ death, 20-year-old Bengal batsman Ankit Keshri, playing a club match in Kolkata, collided with a teammate while going for a catch and hurt his head. He passed away three days later. Keshri had enough promise to be called a future first-class batsman.

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