Hitting a six (or a home run), is it legal under health and safety legislation?

I love cricket (and I like baseball) as well, I well remember a six from the late Ben Hollioake at Durham which hit a railing and nearly took my head off.



Do cricket (or baseball) grounds have special dispensation from health and safety laws?



Personally i think the spectator should be watching the game, but If my wife is beaned while bending down to pick up her knitting, what is the legal position?Hitting a six (or a home run), is it legal under health and safety legislation?It's basically the breaks of the game. There's no way to legislate against getting hit in the head by a foul ball (I know nothing about Cricket except it's a noisy insect). There have been people try to sue after getting hit. They got nowhere because you take the risk of that happening.

I don't understand going to any sporting event and not paying attention. It just seems dumb to me.Hitting a six (or a home run), is it legal under health and safety legislation?The stadiums are not responsible for the objects that may fly out of the field of play. It is the persons responsibility to be paying attention. This goes for baseball anyway. The even announce something to that affect before every MLB game.Hitting a six (or a home run), is it legal under health and safety legislation?Cricket is a gentleman's game.

Gentlemen would never harm a lady.

Therefore, if your wife should inadvertently get in the way of a cricket ball it would be her fault and not the gentleman's.

Does your wife have special dispensation from perversion of the course of cricket balls laws?



It follows that as baseball is an American game, it would not be played by gentlemen. Any accidents whatsoever would, of course, be the fault of the players.