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Concussion replacements are here to stay!

Exactly five years to this date, Phil Hughes was taken too soon, the most tragic moment cricketing world has had to digest in recent times. When Phil Hughes got hit on that dreadful day at the Adelaide Oval by a searing bouncer and passed away just hours later, cricketing fraternity woke up and again started thinking about the safety of the players. When I thought of the kind of summer Mitchell Johnson had the previous year, I was completely thrown off and pleased for English batsmen thinking how didn't any of them get hit on the head and sent to the hospital. It was obviously a good thing that nobody got hit in the summer of 2013-14 but I was surprised about it a year later because I hadn't seen someone bowl that quick in my life. After the demise of Phil Hughes, India were scheduled to take on Australia at the Adelaide Oval. Aussies put on a score well in excess of 500 in the first innings and India were two down for not too many. Virat Kohli walked in with the burden of thos...