RIP Phil - a good guy, well loved by all his teammates. Sad loss for Australian Cricket - he was just coming back into form and looking like a recall to the national team was close.
A total freak injury though, so you have to feel for the bowler.
When I used to play back home, I was a fast (for a teenager) bowler, and I used bouncers a decent amount. Sometimes when a player was getting forward a lot, to push them back, sometimes when a player was leaving a lot of balls in the area just outside their wicket (where you deliver the ball to tempt a false shot to get a catch behind) - in that case it was to rattle them a little, try to get inside their head in a figurative sense. Only hit batters in the head twice, and once was a ball I was not even trying to bounce that high, it just reared up sharply.
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