You can't say Travis Hair doesn't put his life on the line for his cricket.
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Literally.
Hair was batting for Rup-Minyip against Homers in the 2017-18 one-day grand final when he felt a sharp pain in his chest.
The Blue Panthers skipper batted out his innings and went out to field, feeling groggy, before taking himself to hospital that night.
The next morning he was flown to Melbourne for surgery. That sharp pain he felt while batting had been a heart attack.
"Anyone knows you'd do anything to beat Homers," Hair joked.
"But we didn't even end up winning. I almost died for nothing."
Hair's brush with death is just one point in a colourful and successful career.
A career that's seen him became the latest inductee into the Horsham Cricket Association Hall of Fame.
Hair started his cricket with Toolondo-Clear Lake, before trying his hand with Homers, Horsham Saints, Blackheath-Dimboola and Rup-Minyip.
He's been a two-day premiership player with Toolondo-Clear Lake, Homers and Rup-Minyip and also won a one-day/Twenty20 premiership with Blackheath-Dimboola.
Hair scored centuries at all these clubs bar Blackheath-Dimboola.
"I'm not usually one that's lost for words," Hair said.
"I just want to thank everyone involved in cricket that makes it a great experience each weekend."
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Hair's status as one of the association's best batters of the modern era is hard to argue.
Though, his father joked Travis still wasted his potential.
"Travis started off young and he had a lot of potential. He probably didn't reach his full potential because he didn't have a brain," Ian Hair said.
"He would have been a lot better cricketer if the brain kicked in a bit earlier.
"If anyone knows the way Travis plays it always pretty laid back. He doesn't get too fussed about the result or anything like that.
"As long as he can work up a good thirst to really have a good drink after the game.
"But, he does play his cricket the right way. We're all pretty proud of him and I think he deserves this."
Hair was meant to inducted into the Hall of Fame at the 2019-20 awards night, though administrators didn't feel a COVID-impacted event did Hair justice.
"He's a magnificent inductee and it just wasn't right to do it last year when we did the presentation out on City Oval," former HCA secretary Darren Chesterfield said.
"The presentation wasn't worthy of this person."
Hair admitted his playing days were waning, though he has been roped into three A Grade games this season.
He currently sits on the board at Rup-Minyip - which he now considers home.
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