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So it’s official. Cricket is a dangerous sport. No, not facing down a 160 km/h delivery from the world’s fastest bowler, but being a spectator. That’s right, the world’s most boring sport (try explaining to a foreigner why one game lasts 5 day) places spectators in imminent danger of mortal injury.

At least, that seems to be the concern, as New Zealand cricket has decided the there is an undue risk of the fans being sconed by an errant ball sailing over the boundary ropes. And what do you do when you get concerned? Why, you start an awareness campaign of course.

Now, I’m a bit of a cricket aficionado, but you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to deduce that batsmen hitting the ball around the park is fairly fundamental to the game. So, perhaps reading books and sleeping isn’t the ideal activity in a sport based around the objective of striking small projectiles as far as possible.

But we need to protect people from themselves. Common sense isn’t enough, you really have to spell it out.