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[Vic Nicholas]

Well, well, well...a fast medium pie thrower has penetrated the grill of the "world safest helmet" at only 86mph?

If that was Mitchell Johnson or Dale Steyn bowling, Broad would be in a coma now being read his last rites.

But it passed all Ayrteks "internal testing" I keep hearing the ECCB apologists on here bleat.

I am sorry, but your protectionist scam has been exposed. The BS claims that Ayrtek are the safest blah, blah, freakin blah have been proven to be propaganda.

I await with bated breath the excuses that will surely be thrown up as to why this remarkable British product that like the Titanic was "unsinkable", failed so spectacularly under mundane circumstances.

[Cowcorner]

Here's a link with the slow-mo vid of the hit in close up - had it not been for the top edge it would have probably hit him on the grill/chin area. The pictures below are from the same page.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/09/englands-stuart-broad-suffers-nasty-injury-as-he-top-edges-ball-through-his-helmet-during-india-test-4826892/




He looks okay as he walks off but give it a day or so until the swelling/bruising comes out. His nose is probably broken but lets hope that he's not as hurt as Kieswetter.



Does this mean there's a grill setting to be avoided on the Ayrtek/Adidas - like a lot of people on the forum I use one and although I'll never face this kind of pace it doesn't mean that I'm not going to top edge on into my own face.....I've even hit myself on the back of the head in the nets!!

[i12breakfree]

[evans1234]

seeing this injury made me cringe and curse for like 10 mins..... i dont use those ayrtek/addias helmets, ive got a (relatively) old masuri helmet (bought it second hand a couple of years ago) but seeing both this injury and kieswetter's injury has made me think about buying a new helmet, just for safety purposes. I also agree with someone who posted before that the helmet safety tests needs an overhaul and to be improved as we shouldn't really have these incidents happen at all.....   

[iand123]

Well, well, well...a fast medium pie thrower has penetrated the grill of the "world safest helmet" at only 86mph?

If that was Mitchell Johnson or Dale Steyn bowling, Broad would be in a coma now being read his last rites.

But it passed all Ayrteks "internal testing" I keep hearing the ECCB apologists on here bleat.

I am sorry, but your protectionist scam has been exposed. The BS claims that Ayrtek are the safest blah, blah, freakin blah have been proven to be propaganda.

I await with bated breath the excuses that will surely be thrown up as to why this remarkable British product that like the Titanic was "unsinkable", failed so spectacularly under mundane circumstances.

I think there is a difference between safest and being 100% safe. Best wait for tom to see it and explain as he's opinion is far more valid than anyone else's

[iand123]

seeing this injury made me cringe and curse for like 10 mins..... i dont use those ayrtek/addias helmets, ive got a (relatively) old masuri helmet (bought it second hand a couple of years ago) but seeing both this injury and kieswetter's injury has made me think about buying a new helmet, just for safety purposes. I also agree with someone who posted before that the helmet safety tests needs an overhaul and to be improved as we shouldn't really have these incidents happen at all.....

It's like the car safety tests, you can get a 5 star rated car but can still die or be seriously hurt in a car crash in it. I don't know the ins and outs of the tests so won't comment on them but I think we all as cricketers would like products to be as safe as the possibly can be. Cricket is a dangerous sport so any move to making it as close to guaranteeing people don't get hurt is a step in the right direction. As per my previous post, worth waiting for tom's opinion on this, then again I'm an ECB apologist so my opinion means very little :-)

[MD2812]

I think it must be to do with the top edge and the angle the ball goes into the grill

[trypewriter]

Looking at the vid the ball seemed to go in sideways on rather than straight from the front.

[Cowcorner]

Looking at the vid the ball seemed to go in sideways on rather than straight from the front.

It does look odd - the ball might have pivoted around the seam as it made contact with the grill and squashed it's way through. May be the ball needs looking at as well.

[tushar sehgal]

From what I saw in the video the ball went in straight without much in its way to slow it down or deflect it which to me seems like the gap in the grill and peak was too big

[cjicricket]

I hope Broad is ok! this is very nasty!

[mp07]

There was def. a blue piece of plastic came off after the impact.  Wounder how will the new Masuri will hold up on impact, 90% of the players are wearing new Masuri helmets in Caribbean Premier League

[ProCricketer1982]

So does this now make the new masuri the safest helmet?

[TangoWhiskey]

Without wanting to seem accusatory, I do think this needs explaining by aditek/ayrtek. All of their marketing is based on their helmet supposedly being capable of stopping this kind of injury, but that is almost identical to every other facial injury you can YouTube, no matter what helmet the player has been wearing. I'll be very interested in the response when it comes.

[Buzz]

2 things.
1. we don't know how much worse it would have been in a different lid.
2. we don't know if he was wearing it properly, did put the lid on right, I.e. strap first then inflate and had he played with the settings on the grille too.

still it seems a pretty bad incident.