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Plenty of sports have intimidation tactics, but few have the weapons to readily kill someone in a method legal in the sport.
Rugby? maybe fists, but you're not "allowed" to.
Golf? nope.
Ultimate fighting? probably.
Tennis? maybe a deliberate smash into someone at the net? pretty rare.
Football? plenty of broken legs and the odd cheekbone but mostly outside the laws of the game.
Darts?
American football? Plenty of armour in that game.
Baseball? nope.
Ice hockey? Kind of, but still just fists.
Cricket is up there where it is a legitimate tactic to attempt to intimidate under the threat of what happened to Hughes. Hard to say it was unforseen though the stats suggest it was actually quite unlikely.
This is why I talk cricket up as a tough person's sport.