Hilton Cartwright was taken to hospital on Sunday evening after the Melbourne Stars batsman appeared to endure a neck harm through the Massive Bash League’s curtain raiser on the Optus Stadium.
The 32-year-old center order batsman had been fielding at deep level when Perth’s Cooper Connolly had struck the ball out in the direction of him.
Cartwright appeared to dive to avoid wasting the boundary because the ball careered towards the rope however fell to the bottom with some pressure.
He initially appeared to twist up on the bottom whereas clutching his head.
Group-mate Marcus Stoinis was the primary participant to reach and shortly gestured for medical groups to come back onto the pitch.
Worryingly Cartwright stayed on the ground as he was attended to by medics, earlier than medical doctors positioned him in a neck brace and transported him from the sector on a stretcher.
It’s understood that he was instantly taken to hospital for additional assessments.
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