Play it again, Sam: Harper's journey back

After suffering severe concussion following a freak accident, Victoria's young 'keeper-batsman has rediscovered his love for cricket:

Sam Harper nods politely as the doctors tell him everything will get back to normal. But in the back of his mind he wonders whether it really will.

The rational part of him knows what they're saying is probably true but the piercing pain that's kept him from sleeping, days after being clocked in the head with a cricket bat, is telling him otherwise.

He wonders if the doctors are wrong.

He wonders if he'll remember how to walk. He wonders if he'll have the energy to hold a conversation again. And although he's sick of being asked whether the hunger to pick up a bat or his wicketkeeping gloves again still burns inside him, a small part of him wonders if it actually does.

"'Eventually, it's going to be fine'," Harper recalls being told. "'You're going to be fine, you're going to play cricket again, you're going to walk again'.