{"id":17063,"date":"2016-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/questions-asked-about-ugly-sledge-at-hughes-inquest\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:00:00","slug":"questions-asked-about-ugly-sledge-at-hughes-inquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/questions-asked-about-ugly-sledge-at-hughes-inquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions asked about ugly sledge at Hughes inquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Fast bowler Doug Bollinger denies he delivered an on-field sledge along the lines of \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you\u201d at Phil Hughes before the batsman was killed in a freak accident at the SCG.<\/h3>\n<p>On Monday it emerged during the inquest into Hughes\u2019 death that Phillip\u2019s brother Jason was told Bollinger had made the comments during the fateful game.<\/p>\n<p>Jason was reportedly told about the sledge not long after the fatal incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/sport\/cricket\/inquest-into-cricketer-phillip-hughes\/news-story\/79cca21a934c5cd26591fb72ee6b9218?utm_content=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=EditorialSF&amp;utm_source=News.com.au&amp;utm_medium=Facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to news.com.au<\/a>, NSW Detective Constable Tomkin also agreed that he had been told about the sledging.<\/p>\n<p>But when Bollinger was questioned, he said, \u201cI know in my heart I didn&#8217;t say that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn&#8217;t sledge Phil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhil was batting well, we were trying to get him out, we were trying to get him anyway we can, either by LBW or through caught behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brad Haddin &#8212; wicketkeeper and NSW captain on the day &#8212; also denied anything untoward had happened on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Asked at the inquest whether NSW players had sledged the South Australian batsman, Haddin said, \u201cI didn\u2019t hear anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And asked whether Hughes was targeted in an \u201cungentlemanly manner\u201d, Haddin said, \u201cNo, that didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that if there had been an excessive number of short balls bowled, he would have expected the umpires to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>He described the game as having \u201ca good vibe and we were going about our business\u201d.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/road-death-the-text-david-and-will-weren-t-sure-they-should-read\"><strong>THE TEXT DAVID AND WILL WEREN\u2019T SURE THEY SHOULD READ\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/boak-crucial-in-hartlett-s-decision-to-stay-put\"><strong>TRAVIS BOAK KEY IN HARTLETT\u2019S DECISION TO STAY PUT AT PORT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast bowler Doug Bollinger denies he delivered an on-field sledge along the lines of \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you\u201d at Phil Hughes before the batsman was killed in a freak accident at the SCG. On Monday it emerged during the inquest into Hughes\u2019 death that Phillip\u2019s brother Jason was told Bollinger had made the comments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-17063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Questions asked about ugly sledge at Hughes inquest - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/questions-asked-about-ugly-sledge-at-hughes-inquest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Questions asked about ugly sledge at Hughes inquest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fast bowler Doug Bollinger denies he delivered an on-field sledge along the lines of \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you\u201d at Phil Hughes before the batsman was killed in a freak accident at the SCG. 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