I remember Ben Hollioakes death, cant remember the cause, but certainly remember it happening, I am not a big Cricket fan, but I do enjoy ODI's now and again and enjoy T20...
People say 'lightning doesn't strike twice', but a cruel event has drifted over them again.
It must be torture for his family, friends, fans and the wider Surrey CCC family, it is bad enough when anybody dies, to see splashed about the media, it must be a million times worse and close to being unbearable...
Massive shame someone with a lot of promise and talent gets taken away from us way to early, I wish everybody involved in this all the very best, along with my thoughts, prayers and condolences, whatever the circumstances, it could be that he was in some dark land, and I can sympathise and relate to that, as I once was stood on the edge of a platform at Durham many years ago and then perched on the Viaduct just beyond the Station, luckily I was saved from Suicide...
Things like this has an effect on other punters, I still get upset about it, because I witnessed a One-Under when I was 16-17 and never rode the Tube for many years but it had a real psychologial effect on me, I also lost a mate to who was hit by a train 12 years ago, put them together with my problems and i still have nightmares about it now and again...
Going off on tangent a bit
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