Sports Protective Equipment Market: Growth Summary
Mishaps and injuries are common during sports activities but some of them can be critical and may even prove fatal. Darryn Randall, a South African domestic cricket player was hit on the side of his head while batting and was declared dead from the blow. Many similar incidences in cricket, as well as other sports, have proven fatal for the sports players.
To prevent these injuries, sports equipment is necessary. The importance of sports equipment has increased considerably after such incidents. Thus, based on all these factors, the sports protective equipment market will observe a rise in sales across the assessment period of 2019-2027. Sports equipment includes head protection gear, lower body protection gear, upper body protection gear, and footwear. The overwhelming utilization of sports equipment in ball games, water sports, racing, cricket, rock climbing, and numerous types of sports will help in increasing the growth rate.
The sudden deaths that shook the cricket fraternity
They say, ‘Death is inevitable!’ While the sudden death of the 59-year-old World Cup winning Aussie cricketer-turned-coach and commentator, Dean Jones, is still fresh in our minds who recently passed away after a heart attack in Mumbai, the unexpected demise of much loved Pakistan’s national cricket team’s foreign coach Bob Woolmer during the forgettable 2007 World Cup campaign in Jamaica was equally saddening and haunted the Pakistani dressing room for long.
Both of these deaths came as an unanticipated horror. Sudden death of an otherwise healthy individual, let alone a healthy sportsman, without any prior sickness and not showing any significant health concerns, is always shocking. It is, however, the accidental death of young cricketers that left their followers in tears. Here we recall some of the accidental deaths of cricketers and deaths that occurred for on-field reasons that shook the cricket fraternity and the cr