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Why cricket players back hands while catching

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Cricket players pull their hands back for increasing the time taken for stopping the ball. Due to more time taken to stop the ball, the rate of change of momentum of ball is reduced and hence a small force is exerted on the hands of players. So, the hands of player do not get hurt.

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