Cricket: Six smashes into commentary box (with audio)

Somerset's Peter Trego smashes a six straight into the commentary box during a match against Glamorgan. Photo / Getty Images

An English cricket commentator was on the receiving end of a batsman's six after the ball smashed through the commentary box window.

Edward Bevan was commentating for BBC Radio Wales during Glamorgan's Clydesdale Bank 40 match against Somerset in Taunton when Somerset's century-maker Peter Trego sent the ball over the boundary.

Bevan commentated: "He hits it up towards us. Is it going to hit us?"

Which was followed by the sound of glass smashing.

Listen to audio of the incident

He suffered some bruising, but remained in good spirits after the incident.

"It hit me on the back and I was quite shaken for a while," he told the BBC.

"There's a bruise there this morning - in fact I couldn't carry on.

"Dear old Steve James (Bevan's fellow commentator) carried on for about a quarter of an hour."

Bevan said he had lost the flight of the ball "for a moment".

"Steve next to me turned round and the thing came through the window," he said.

"As I turned so it wouldn't hit my face or head, it hit me in the small of the back, which wasn't nice."

He noted that he was lucky to turn away from the window to avoid further injury.

"Had I stayed where I was the consequences would have been much worse," he said.

Bevan has experienced similar incidents in the past.

"It's the third time it's happened now - twice in the little box we used to have in Cardiff, not the palatial building we have now, and yesterday of course, which is probably the worst commentary box in the country."

- HERALD ONLINE