No, this headline is not a joke. Port Adelaide Enfield Council is considering a ban on the use of cricket balls on public parks and in public cricket nets for all those not playing an official game.
The move is based on a fear that a passerby will be injured or killed by a cricket ball, and the increase in the numbers of casual cricketers using the nets.
Fortunately, not everyone working alongside councillor Mark Brasham, the man who proposed the ban, agree that you should have a booking if you want to use a hard cricket ball, with suggestions being drawn up about implementing rubber goalposts, as well as targeting other areas like banning awful haircuts and sporting attire.
They seem like more sensible suggetions to us.
However, fellow councillor Carol Martin backed the push, saying hard cricket balls often hit people innocently going about their business in the public parks.
“Someone will die. There will be a serious accident or a conflict between people,” she said.
Not all agree.
Put a fork in me….I'm DONE!!! https://t.co/B5kwGX9V1g
— Benny Pahl (@bennypahl) April 19, 2016
An Adelaide council is proposing a ban on kids using hard cricket balls in its cricket nets citing the danger … More nanny state laws ?
— Glenn Mitchell (@MitchellGlenn) April 19, 2016
“We’re just over-protective,” popular Adelaide radio personality KG Cunningham said.
“What’s wrong with young people out there using a hard ball? Just put up signs saying ‘hard ball in use, beware’.
“Surely people can see for themselves there’s kids are playing there. Just go down to the other end of the ground.
“If they’re that worried, just stay away from the nets. How hard is it?”
The Roar hasn’t heard anything about what will be proposed at the next Council meeting, however we wouldn’t be surprised if a temporary freeze on all fun is brought up next.
Because when the bloke proposing said change calls it ‘Nanny State’, then you know there are problems.
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