Fidel Edwards: Hampshire fast bowler breaks leg 'playing football in warm-up'

Hampshire have been absolutely decimated with injuries to start the season. Reece Topley has broke his hand, Sean Ervine his finger, Liam Dawson has strained his abdominal, Chris Wood picked up an injury in the first innings and both Gareth Berg and Ryan Stephenson are out to start the season. They are getting incredibly thin on bowlers. They may have to start plucking players out of the stands if this continues. It does make their draws against Warwickshire and Yorkshire that much more impressive.

could have been a great fast bowler for windies

While I'm not saying that the players can't have any fun, and that of course accidents like this can happen, shouldn't they take things a little more carefully seeing as they know that they're depending on their bodies as a way to make a living?

He's an amazing player, sad to see sportsmen suffering from injuries.

As I am sure you are well aware, the England team plays football before every match. This is a big part of their pre-match warm up.

There was a great interview with the England coaches last year where they explained that the reason behind this is that it helps to get the players loose -  more o than just regular stretching and that it has the added benefit of getting the players in a competitive frame of mind before the start of the match.

Given that these types of injuries are few and far between, I am okay with the very minimal risk due to the perceived benefits.

Let them warm up with a bat/racquet and ball.

a better hand eye coordination ...heck even badminton's shuttlCock !!

Ankles will be spared from Soccer  :
                                                   

Given some of England's fielding in years past, I'd have been afraid of them taking a shuttlecock to the eye.

LoL : I dont think Kanhai and Kalli in that era with Warwicks :

knew what a Soccer ball looked like in Berbice , Guyana  ;D

they would have broken both ankles...