On a summer evening in 2014 a group of amateur cricketers were playing in a public park, watched by a few spectators on the boundary rope.
Walking past at the moment when a batsman heaved a delivery skywards were Phoebe Lewis and a companion.
“I suddenly heard a shout from the pitch and turned my head to the left and inclined it upwards,” Ms Lewis said. “At this point I was hit in my left eye by a cricket ball. The ball hit me square on the eyeball. I do not recall seeing it in time to even close my eye.”
The ball caused a serious injury, she said. Yesterday, six years later, the High Court was asked to rule on whether she should have